Title: Male partners’ involvement in birth preparedness and complication readiness plan in Dale
district, Sidama regional state, Ethiopia, 2021
Version: 5 Date: 22 Aug 2023
Reviewer's report:
Dear authors,
Thank you for addressing the previous comments and reshaping the manuscript.  Please consider
the following further minor edits to your manuscript:
Abstract:
Line 33:   "giving birth by C/S". Reword this variable, possibly as " male partners whose wives
had a history of caesarean birth."
Line 34: Avoid this abbreviation "BPCRP", at least in the abstract.
Background:  Well written. Just only a few things:
Line 80:  "BPCRP" this abbreviation should be should have been started from Line 50. Consider
it as follows: Line 50....Birth preparedness and complication readiness plan (BPCRP).
Line 81: .... only a few studies "were conducted".
Line 83: Therefore, this study "aimed".......
Methods
Line 89: Be consistent..,use "partners: instead of spouses. This should be done throughout the
entire document.
Line 103: ..."on the contrary", replace this with, "additionally" or a similar term.
Line 114: Then we "added"......
Line 121: "random sampling was used to reach each woman who gave birth in.....". Please
paraphrase this. It seems that women were your primary study population. Just talk about male
partners. Keep in mind about one of my concerns (study population) on the previous versions
of the manuscript.
Line 122-123: "Then, women who gave birth in the last 12 months were selected....". Same
here focus on male partners.  Just for the curiosity though, did you first identify women and
then followed by their partners (did you use women as an entry point)? if so, where were those
women during data collection?  Look, this would possibly rise further questions. So just stick
to male partners in your writing.
125. "After women households were identified....". Same here.
Line 132: Reference #18.  You have not correctly cited.  The reference you have cited is the study
conducted in Burayu town of Oromia region, not (JHPIEGO). And unfortunately, the important
components of the questionnaire that included in the study conducted in Burayu have not been
addressed in your study.  For now, just correct the citation.
Line 137 and 139: " Sidama afoo" vs "Sidaamu Afoo". Which one is correct?
Results
Line 230-232.: "Two-hundred-seventy-eight (44.7%) wives of males ....".  " One-fifth (19.3%)
of wives of husbands preferred their delivery place....". Please be consistent.  Males vs husbands
vs partners vs spouses. Just choose one, preferably "male partners"
Line 237:  remove "Hence".
Line 244: Remove " Accordingly".
Line 256: "birth preparedness and complication readiness plan", if you have decided to use
that abbreviation (BPCRP), this one too needs to be abbreviated. Including subheadings, as
appropriate. My advice: either completely avoid abbreviation or use them consistently, once you
have introduced them on their first appearance in the text (but not in the abstract at all)
Line 283: ....."husbands whose wives who (faced) complications "
Table 3:
check the frequencies and the respective percentages for this variable:  "Presence of spousal
influence to engage during maternity care".
These variable needs rewording. "Did partner (have) previous experience in participation during
maternity care"
General comments for other tables: Please add footnotes as you have used some abbreviations
or avoid using abbreviations in the table, if possible.