JerMa88/BMC_Womens_Health_Peer_Reviews huggingface dataset:
Title: The role of unintended pregnancy in internalized stigma among women living with HIV
in Kenya
Version: 5 Date: 29 Jan 2021
Reviewer's report:
The authors have done an excellent job of responding to the comments of the reviewers and
revising the paper.  I have only a few minor comments on the revised manuscript.
Introduction:
1. Page 5, line 69:  Clarify if the 5.2% HIV prevalence nationally is for women, or both men
and women. Seems like it might be more relevant to mention national HIV prevalence among
women here.
Results:
2. Page 11, lines 208:  Overall, the new figures are very helpful. However, the title of Figure 4 is
confusing since some participants included in the figure did not agree with multiple statements.
Maybe could instead be titled: “Percentage of participants who agreed to different numbers of
internalized stigma statements (range 0-7)”?
Discussion:
3. Page 15, lines 290-291: I think the point of my suggestion to refer to the Kay study in the US
(Kay et al, JAIDS, 2018) was to point out their finding that experienced stigma in the community
(discrimination) leads to internalized stigma, not their findings about effects of experienced
stigma on other psychosocial outcomes (depression, self-esteem). This is the finding of the
current study that is being discussed here.
4. Page 16, line 325:  I’m not sure “circularity” is the right term here. It is more that because of the
cross-sectional nature of the data, we are unable to clearly establish directionality or causality.
Reviewer’s report
Title: 
‘Every medicine is part poison’: A qualitative inquiry into the perceptions
and experiences of choosing contraceptive methods of migrant Chinese women
living in Australia
Version: 
0 
Date: 
10 Jan 2020
Reviewer: 
Safdar Ali
Reviewer's report:
NA
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Unable to assess
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Are the conclusions drawn adequately supported by the data shown?
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Not relevant to this manuscript
Quality of written English
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Needs some language corrections before being published
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Reviewer’s report
Title: 
‘Every medicine is part poison’: A qualitative inquiry into the perceptions
and experiences of choosing contraceptive methods of migrant Chinese women
living in Australia
Version: 
0 
Date: 
10 Apr 2020
Reviewer: 
Patience Abor
Reviewer's report:
Are the methods appropriate and well described?
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Yes
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Title: Acceptability and Safety of the Menstrual Cups among Iranian Women: A Cross-sectional
Study
Version: 1 Date: 08 Jan 2021
Reviewer's report:
- The authors' design, study results, and discussions are clear.
- The authors' presentation suggests that their target population was women of the reproductive
age group in Iranian cities but, the distribution of participants by cities of the country was
not presented!  The information should be presented in the Study's methods and the table of
participants' basic characteristics.
- Authors' stated in the study's limitations that, "...because it was difficult to compare satisfaction
with the cup to sanitary pads due to the different nature of the two products..", which I do not
accept! Such a comparison would have enriched the study.
Title: Acceptability and Safety of the Menstrual Cups among Iranian Women: A Cross-sectional
Study
Version: 1 Date: 23 Jan 2021
Reviewer:  Rosemary N Ogu
Reviewer's report:
The manuscript - Acceptability and Safety of the Menstrual Cup among Iranian Women: A
Cross-sectional Study aims to determine the acceptability and safety of menstrual cups among
Iranian women. The methodology is appropriate for the objectives. The discussion of the results
is reasonable. The authors conclude that the menstrual cup is a safe and acceptable method
for menstrual management in Iranian women and can be proposed as an alternative reusable
menstrual hygiene product. The manuscript is apt with current concerns regarding menstrual
hygiene. Many girls and women in low-income countries have significant challenges regarding
menses.
Further english language editing may enhance the readability of the manuscript.
Title: Factors associated with delay in seeking treatment among women with pelvic organ
prolapse at selected General and Referral Hospitals of Southern Ethiopia, 2020
Version: 1 Date: 22 Jan 2021
Reviewer:  Demisew Amenu
Reviewer's report:
Generally the topic of the manuscript is interesting and the findings are also important. However,
the following comments may improve the manuscript
1. Title: better to rewrite as 'Factors associated with delay in seeking treatment among women
with pelvic organ prolapse at selected General and Referral Hospitals of Southern Ethiopia,
2020.
2. The whole manuscript needs some editorial work
3. The method part needs more explanation specifically why early stage POPs are excluded
while the manuscript advocates the importance of early medical care.
4. result: better to have a table describing the stages of POP if possible including all the stages
5. discussion: more literatures and discussion on the differences and its contextual implication
of the findings are important.
6. conclusion: focusing on workable points to address delay in seeking treatment in advisable.
For instance, instead of concluding ...raising women’s income are recommended...it may be
better to conclude that increasing access to treatment by making the nearby hospitals equipped
with faculties to treat POP may be plausible.
Title: Circulating inflammatory markers may mediate the relationship between low
carbohydrate diet and circadian rhythm in overweight and obese women
Version: 1 Date: 22 Nov 2020
Reviewer:  Erdinç Sar#do#an
Reviewer's report:
In my opinion, study question is original. On the other hand, content of the manuscript is
very complicated and difficult to understand. I recommend accepting of this article after major
revision includes followings:
1. Please avoid indicating p value in abstract section.
2. Please mention about TGF-#, IL-1# and Galectin-3 as inflammatory markers with few
sentences in introduction section.
3. Please specify in methods section how sample size was decided.
4. Please explain the reason that white blood cell count was not be used as an inflammatory
marker in addition to the others.
5. Discussion section should be written again. While rewriting process, some recommendations
should be taken into account: i) Please avoid writing the results again in discussion, ii) Please
mention about relationship between inflammatory markers and circadian rhythm disruptions in
obese people with current literature, iii) Kindly focus on the study question, otherwise readers
cannot take attention on paper (for example; hormones are not the topic of this study).
Sincerely.
Title: Circulating inflammatory markers may mediate the relationship between low
carbohydrate diet and circadian rhythm in overweight and obese women
Version: 1 Date: 24 Nov 2020
Reviewer's report:
Dear Author;
I reviewed the manuscript and I have some recommendations mentioned below:
-There are a lot of grammatical errors and typos, so the manuscript should be evaluated by a
native English speaker.
-In the materials and methods section, the authors mentioned the exclusion criteria as: // ...
exclusion criteria: regular use of medications except contraceptives, ...// the use of oral
contraceptives seems to be not an exclusion criteria, might oral contraceptive use has an impact
on results?
-How did the you decide the number of participants, is there a power analysis?
-It should be explained in the materials and methods section, what that the scientific basis of the
inflammatory markers used in this study are and why you have chosen these markers.
-The discussion section is so complicated. It should be simplified, the informations that are not
associated with the results of this study should be removed from this section.
Title: Circulating inflammatory markers may mediate the relationship between low
carbohydrate diet and circadian rhythm in overweight and obese women
Version: 3 Date: 24 Jan 2021
Reviewer:  Erdinç Sar#do#an
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for your revisions that you made in accordance with the recommendations. Now, the
manuscript may be acceptable after a number of minor revisions.
1.Please delete the abbreviations which are not used in the Table 1 (SBP: Systolic blood pressure;
DBP: Diastolic blood pressure; hs-CRP: High-sensitivity C-reactive protein).
2.Please check the mean value of relative morning type group's FMI on Table 2 (112 or 11 or
12?).
3.Please delete the abbreviations which are not used in the Table 2. (SBP: Systolic blood
pressure; DBP: Diastolic blood pressure; hs-CRP: High-sensitivity C-reactive protein).
4.Please delete the abbreviations which are not used in the Table 3. (SBP: Systolic blood
pressure; DBP: Diastolic blood pressure).
Title: Circulating inflammatory markers may mediate the relationship between low
carbohydrate diet and circadian rhythm in overweight and obese women
Version: 4 Date: 22 Feb 2021
Reviewer:  Erdinç Sar#do#an
Reviewer's report:
Dear authors,
Thank you for your revisions that you made in accordance with the recommendations. In my
opinion now, this paper is suitable for publication.
Sincerely.
Title: Awareness of obstetric danger signs among pregnant women in the Democratic Republic
of Congo: evidence from a nationwide cross-sectional study
Version: 0 Date: 20 Nov 2020
Reviewer:  Minakshi Rohilla
Reviewer's report:
Aim and objectives of the study need to be clearly written in the manuscript, may be you missed it
as a secondary analysis of the study.Conclusion of the study needs rewriting in terms of specific
findings of the study regarding all significant factors associated with poor awareness.
Reviewer’s report
Title: 
Prevalence of Premature Ovarian Insufficiency and its determinants in
Iranian populations: Tehran Lipid and Glucose study
Version: 
0 
Date: 
14 Feb 2020
Reviewer: 
fatma BAŞAR
Reviewer's report:
the study highlighted an important issue. The study included an important
problem.
Are the methods appropriate and well described?
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Yes
Does the work include the necessary controls?
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authors.
Yes
Are the conclusions drawn adequately supported by the data shown?
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Yes
Are you able to assess any statistics in the manuscript or would you
recommend an additional statistical review?
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require further assessment in your comments to the editors.
Not relevant to this manuscript
Quality of written English
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Acceptable
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Reviewer’s report
Title: 
Prevalence of Premature Ovarian Insufficiency and its determinants in
Iranian populations: Tehran Lipid and Glucose study
Version: 
0 
Date: 
29 Feb 2020
Reviewer: 
Ahmed Mohamed Abbas Sobh
Reviewer's report:
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Are the methods appropriate and well described?
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I am able to assess the statistics
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Title: Perception of menopause among women of Sarawak, Malaysia
Version: 2 Date: 19 Dec 2020
Reviewer:  Rafael Sánchez-borrego
Reviewer's report:
This is a carefully written manuscript.
This interesting and well-designed cross-sectional study carried out among women in women's
health camps between 40 and 65 years old concludes that the perception of menopause was
different compared to other studies carried out in Malaysia and other Asian countries.
Overall, the authors covered the topic fluently. This manuscript is a good cross-sectional study
to update knowledge on the subject and will be a good addition to the current literature.
Please see below my recommendations. However, these should be viewed as personal
perspective on how the manuscript could become more attractive to readers and therefore not
as mandatory for manuscript acceptance.
• From this study, if we want a positive perception about menopause we must facilitate a higher
educational level. It would be interesting to consider what methods could promote information
about menopause among women in these women's health camps
• In the discussion section, a comparison should be made with the results of similar studies,
such as:
Huang KE, Xu L, I NN, Jaisamrarn U. The Asian Menopause Survey: knowledge, perceptions,
hormone treatment and sexual function. Maturitas. 2010 Mar; 65 (3): 276-83. doi: 10.1016 /
j.maturitas.2009.11.015. Epub 2009 Dec 16. PMID: 20018469.
Du L, Xu B, Huang C, Zhu L, He N. Menopausal Symptoms and Perimenopausal Healthcare-
Seeking Behavior in Women Aged 40-60 Years: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Survey
in Shanghai, China. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Apr 12; 17 (8): 2640. doi: 10.3390 /
ijerph17082640. PMID: 32290565; PMCID: PMC7215590.
Title: Perception of menopause among women of Sarawak, Malaysia
Version: 5 Date: 31 Jan 2021
Reviewer's report:
I appreciate the thorough response to my previous review. The revisions have greatly improved
the manuscript. The English language editing has provided clarity and refined the meaning of
sentences. The changes to the tables made a connection between data from individual tables
clear.
I am still a bit concerned about the statement that women in the peri-menopausal stage have
a more positive outlook than women in pre- or post-menopausal stage. This is not quite clear
to me from the data. I would expect it would mean that the percentage of women answering
"agree" to the positive perception issues would be larger for peri-menopausal women than for
pre- and post-menopausal women and I quite don't see that. Rather I find the pre-menopausal
women have the more positive outlook. Perhaps you might consider clarifying your findings
regarding this matter.
Title: Perception of menopause among women of Sarawak, Malaysia
Version: 7 Date: 10 Feb 2021
Reviewer's report:
I am glad to hear that you checked the data again and agree with my interpretation and have
revised the text accordingly.
Because the findings have elucidated another stage in the menopause transition as the one with
the more positive perception (from previously perimenopausal to now premenopausal women),
this new finding could be discussed a bit more in the discussion part.
It would have been harder to explain why perimenopausal women have a more positive
perception of menopause as this is exactly the stage were symptoms can be very severe.
It is easier to explain why premenopausal women have a positive attitude, because in the
premenopausal stage symptoms have not all developed yet and /or are less bothersome.
This last reasoning could be added to the discussion.