Title: Exploration the role of social, cultural and environmental factors in tendency of female
adolescents to smoking based on the qualitative content analysis
Version: 0 Date: 19 Oct 2021
Reviewer's report:
Explaining the role of social, cultural and environmental factors in adolescent smoking tendency
based on the qualitative content analysis”
1- In the title of the article and other sections, I suggest using the word " exploration" instead of
the word "explanation", which is more appropriate for a qualitative study.
2- Add the word women to the title of the article.
3- I advise the authors to find a native English speaker to proofread the manuscript. There are
numerous instances of improper grammar and sentence structure. Editing the paper by native
speakers is important in qualitative research. .
4- I suggest you use the following articles in the introduction .
Yoosefi Lebni, J., Ziapour, A., Qorbani, M., Baygi, F., Mirzaei, A., Safari, O., ... & Mansourian,
M. (2020). The consequences of regular methamphetamine use in Tehran: qualitative content
analysis. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 15, 1-10
Ziapour, A., Qorbani, M., Khosravi, B., Mirzaei, A., Safari, O., ... & Özdenk, G. D. (2021).
Explaining the causes of crystal addiction in Tehran: a qualitative approach. Journal of Public
Health, 29 (1). pp. 95-101
Fattahi E, Solhi M, Manzari ZS, Afkar A, Yoosefi Lebni J, Rastegar A. Students' beliefs about
smokeless tobacco use in Chabahar city: A qualitative study using focus groups. J Edu Health
Promot 2021;10:251
5- In the last paragraph of the introduction, you should fully explain why you used the qualitative
method?
6- In method session .
- The purpose of the study does not need to be repeated at the beginning of the method. Please
delete
- Explain the inclusion and exclusion criteria
- Explain more about how participants access and select
- It seems that you used the semi-structured interview method, but in the method of both semi-
structured interviews and in-depth interviews. Please explain
Please provide the interview questions in the table.
- Your description of the data analysis method is incomplete and ambiguous. Please explain
further
- Please explain how ‘theoretical saturation’ was judged. I assume it was judged to have been
attained when no new themes or information emerged in subsequent interviews. It would be
helpful to justify your point about saturation and sample size with a reference to a methodological
text, to support your point. I suggest you refer to the following articles:
-Mansourian, M., Taghdisi, M. H., Khosravi, B., Ziapour, A., & Özdenk, G. D. (2019). A study
of Kurdish women’s tragic self-immolation in Iran: a qualitative study. Burns, 45(7), 1715-1722
7- In the results section
- This sentence is inconsistent with the method section. Please correct the type of interview “The
present study was conducted through in-depth interviews with 22 female adolescent smokers”
- Present the demographic characteristics of the participants in a new table.
8- In the discussion section,
-The discussion can be improved further by include more previous study, try to add more study
and be more logical.
-emphasize the new research findings and mention what your research added to the previous
research
-A lot of the discussion felt like it was either restating findings from the results or bringing up
findings that were not in the results, rather than really discussing what the results mean. I think
this paper would be much stronger if the results were expanded to really describe all the different
aspects of each category. Then, the discussion could focus on what this means and why it matters.