JerMa88/BMC_Womens_Health_Peer_Reviews huggingface dataset:
Title: Successful pregnancy in a female with embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma of the cervix who
received biopsy and chemotherapy alone without recurrence after 16 years: A case report and
literature review
Version: 1 Date: 30 Jul 2023
Reviewer's report:
I read with great interest the Manuscript titled "Successful pregnancy in a female with
embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma of the cervix who received biopsy and chemotherapy alone
without recurrence after 16 years: a case report and literature review'' which falls within the aim
of the Journal.
In my honest opinion, the topic is interesting enough to attract the readers’ attention.
Although the manuscript can be considered already of high quality, I would suggest to take into
account the following minor recommendations:
- I suggest another round of language revision, in order to correct few typos and improve
readability, with a tension to be more formal.
-The introduction should be less extended and more concentrated.
-It would be great also to present real photos from the surgical field if you are allowed to do
that with the consent of the patient
- Discussions can be more concentrated and improved by citing relevant articles about the
therapeutic plan for the case you reported.
- The authors have not adequately highlighted the strengths and limitations of their study. I
suggest better specifying these points.
Considered all these points, I think it could be of interest for the readers and, in my opinion, it
deserves the priority to be published after minor revisions.
Title: Successful pregnancy in a female with embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma of the cervix who
received biopsy and chemotherapy alone without recurrence after 16 years: A case report and
literature review
Version: 3 Date: 20 Aug 2023
Reviewer's report:
Dear authors, I am glad to see that the changes I proposed to you have been made almost entirely
and therefore I think that your work is more than ready to proceed to publication.
Title: Prevalence of Premature Ovarian Insufficiency (POI) and its Relationship with Female
Reproductive Factors in Iranian Women: A Cross-Sectional Study from the Persian (Shahedieh)
Cohort Data
Version: 2 Date: 23 Apr 2023
Reviewer's report:
Thanks for the opportunity given to me to review this study, in addition to the fact that the need
to repeat this study was not well stated and no new findings were obtained, the following points
require serious attention:
1- English writing needs revision.
2- Referencing is weak, it is recommended to use newer and more references. For example, this
sentence has no reference (In a country like India, where the health and treatment situation is
very poor, it seems that there is a significant difference between educated and illiterate people
in terms of follow-up and access to health services)
3- The location of the restrictions report is not selected correctly.
4- The term premature ovarian failure should be used everywhere in the article with the same
term.
5- In the discussion section, more studies should be used for discussion and comparison, and the
reasons for the differences should be added in the researcher's opinion.
Title: Prevalence of Premature Ovarian Insufficiency (POI) and its Relationship with Female
Reproductive Factors in Iranian Women: A Cross-Sectional Study from the Persian (Shahedieh)
Cohort Data
Version: 2 Date: 18 Jun 2023
Reviewer's report:
Submission ID 883b587a-13b6-4e9c-82a8-d03bedc6c5a4
The study entitled “Prevalence of premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) and its relationship
with female reproductive factors in Iranian women: A Cross-Sectional Study from the Persian
(Shahedieh) Cohort Data” aimed to determine the relationship between fertility history and
premature ovarian insufficiency.
This is an interesting descriptive matter. However, this study has concerns that make it unsuitable
for publication and should be corrected. The following are suggested for improvement:
Abstract
• Delete the following sentence:
“For example, the risk of premature ovarian failure in people with 3 children is five times higher
(OR=5.44, 95% CI (3.35, 12.58)) than in people with 4 children and above.”
These details should not be included in the abstract and should appear in the results section
Introduction
• The definition of early menopause should be given before stating its prevalence in Iran.
Results
• The statistical analysis method used should be written in the footer of the tables, for example
in Table 1: unconditional multiple logistic regression (MLR).
• Table 1 contains a lot of information that bores the reader, it is suggested to divide this table
into two tables.
• Do you mean Has Job, “husband's job”? Please write the words in full (both in the table and
in the discussion section)
Discussion
• The discussion section is not organized correctly. After the first paragraph, which states the
general and key results, the authors should first state and discuss the important results obtained
in the following paragraphs, and then deal with matters of secondary importance.
• It is recommended to discuss the relationship between parity and breastfeeding with POI after
stating the prevalence and then move on to other variables including education and...
• Also, at the beginning of each paragraph, the results of the current research should be stated and
then other studies in favor or against should be mentioned. For example, in the case of education,
the paragraph is started with the results of other research without the author being clear about
what variable the subject is about and what the result of the present study about it is.
• The limitations section should be moved to the end of the discussion section.
• Please specify the reference of the following sentence: “Since ovulation stops during
pregnancy, the more pregnancies and births there are, the more eggs a woman stores and this
can delay early menopause in women.”
Conclusion
• In the first sentence: “Considering that the higher the number of pregnancies and consequently
the duration of breastfeeding, the women have greater the chance for natural menopause…”; The
authors cannot make such a conclusion from their descriptive research. This sentence cannot be
the conclusion of the present research. Please correct it.
Title: Prevalence of Premature Ovarian Insufficiency (POI) and its Relationship with Female
Reproductive Factors in Iranian Women: A Cross-Sectional Study from the Persian (Shahedieh)
Cohort Data
Version: 2 Date: 29 Jun 2023
Reviewer's report:
Dear authors
The paper reviewed and some comments are as follows:
-The discussion part has some mistakes in citing references, you should use references correctly.
For instance, in paragraph 8, it is mentioned " In a study conducted in Greece.... reference no
26 , but results in this reference are from Iran.
_Paragraph 9 needs to edit as sentences are not clear. in this paragraph also mentioned that "
another study from China, reference no (7), but results in this reference are from India.
-In the start of paragraph 7 it is mentioned "in a study" however you have cited 2 references ,26
and 27.
Title: Human immunodeficiency virus epidemic scenery among Brazilian women: A spatial
analysis study
Version: 2 Date: 07 Jun 2023
Reviewer's report:
-More epidemiological data are needed on the Brazilian HIV epidemic
- last sentence in background section is a conclusion/recommendation
-figure 1 is not required
-did not emphasize compulsory reporting for HIV and AIDS
-did not explain what ARV Medication Dispensing Units are and that they are free of charge
-why the comment about coverage of HIV PrEP Dispensing Units in this article?
-discussion based on associated factors that is not the main purpose of the study
- nor the impact of COVID-19
-the second paragraph of the conclusion is not related to the study
Title: Human immunodeficiency virus epidemic scenery among Brazilian women: A spatial
analysis study
Version: 2 Date: 07 Jun 2023
Reviewer's report:
Background bem construído;  solicitamos  apenas colocar referência  na última assertiva ao final
do segundo parágrafo.
A metodologia está clara e adequada.
Os resultados estão bem apresentados, de forma concisa.
Discussão: no início do segundo parágrafo,  a frase não está clara: os dados desse estudo
coincidem com aqueles apresentados pelo Ministério da Saúde?  Completar a referência número
40 que se refere a essa assertiva.
Completar a referência 44.
"Because this was an ecological study, we could not relate any causal factors to the studied
phenomenon": não precisa desta frase, uma vez que não é objetivo do estudo  mostrar fator
causal.
Title: Human immunodeficiency virus epidemic scenery among Brazilian women: A spatial
analysis study
Version: 5 Date: 29 Jun 2023
Reviewer's report:
The background is well constructed. In the definition of social determinants of health, I suggest
that you include a reference related to the topic, instead of reference number 14., such as, for
example, World Health Organization, CDC, among others.
In the methodology, the Brazilian population can be updated for 2023, whose Census
information is already available.
In the discussion, in the part about the reduction of the HIV epidemic among women, consider
not only the Ministry of Health's policy, but also the efforts of the municipalities in the territory,
primary health care and the role of specialized care services in assistance.
Likewise, considering why in the social and cultural determinants of health, there are territories
where the decline in the HIV epidemic is unequal between men and women.
It is not necessary to justify that causal factors were not found, as this is not the object of the
ecological study. On the contrary, the strength of this type of study in the discussion of territorial
contexts should be emphasized.
The authors can state if they judge any HIV reporting bias in relation to the year of the pandemic
in 2020.
Title: Associations between domestic violence and poor pregnancy outcomes in Taiwanese
women: A nested case–control study
Version: 1 Date: 06 May 2023
Reviewer's report:
I am thankful for giving me the chance to review the manuscript entitled “Associations between
domestic violence and poor pregnancy outcomes in Taiwanese women: A nested case–control
study”. The topic is with novelty and the clinical significance is existed. The analysis is
reasonable, and the writing is good. I have only few comments:
1. The authors should combine 2.1 Study Design and 2.3 Data Collection, describing the
combined section before 2.2 Sample/Participants.
2. As to the selected comorbidity, the authors include type 2 diabetes and not including type 1
diabetes. What do you concern? In the study population, type 1 diabetes should be more prevalent
and more important than type 2 diabetes.
3. In the Table 2 and Table 3, “with violence” and “without violence” were incorrect. They
should be “with PPOs” and “without PPOs”. Domestic violence is the exposure.
4. Table 2, 1-2 “type” and >3 “type”, should be changed to “kinds” or just delete it.
5. In the footnote of Table 1-4, since the authors have shown the definite p value, “*P < 0.05,
**P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001” should be deleted.
Title: Associations between domestic violence and poor pregnancy outcomes in Taiwanese
women: A nested case–control study
Version: 1 Date: 28 May 2023
Reviewer's report:
Submission ID 798c6069-bf79-4d19-890c-30fedf0e14ca
" Associations between domestic violence and poor pregnancy outcomes in Taiwanese women:
A nested case–control study"
"
I really appreciate the opportunity to review this manuscript.
The authors presented the association between DV and adverse pregnancy outcomes (premature
delivery, abortion, stillbirth) by using Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database.
The authors showed the essential findings as the results, but several concerns exist.
In the introduction, it was hard to understand the flow of this section. I wonder whether
the authors think “poor pregnancy outcome” was included in poor health outcomes, poor
reproductive outcomes, poor reproductive outcomes, or adverse maternal outcomes. Were these
considered “poor fetus pregnancy outcomes”?
In the method and results, the authors showed the person-years. If they were used in the analysis,
please describe the endpoints and how to calculate them. In Table 3, all the person-years
are similar in each column. Also, please describe which variables were used for the adjusted
analyses. The authors described the dataset as “ collected from 2000 to 2015” in the abstract but
also described “from the 2005 registry.” Please clarify. I understood Table 4 as the association
between the duration of DV and aOR. Did you get the duration information from NHIRD? Did
that mean the women were diagnosed with DV at least twice? There was no description of
collecting data on the duration of the method.
In the discussion, please state why 45-49 showed the strongest association and how you could
explain the similarity and differences in the effect of DV on premature babies, abortion, and
stillbirth.
Title: Associations between domestic violence and poor pregnancy outcomes in Taiwanese
women: A nested case–control study
Version: 5 Date: 16 Jul 2023
Reviewer's report:
Regarding the Reviewer 3’s responses
2.The calculation of person-year seems inappropriate. The endpoints should be the occurrence
of PPOs, or other types of delivery, or censoring.
The authors used ICD-9-CM code 644.21 for premature delivery.
According to the guideline, 644.21 signifies “Abortion with Liveborn Fetus”(https://
www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/icd/icd9cm_guidelines_2011.pdf). It is no premature delivery.
3. It should be explained in the method section.
6. I was sorry I don’t understand the explanation.
I don’t understand why you omitted the previous Table 2, and why the aORs shown in the
pervious Table 2 were totally different from those in the new Supplemental Table 1. Was the
Supplemental Table 1 a result from a stratified analysis?
Title: Excessive gestational weight gain and emotional eating are positively associated with
postpartum depressive symptoms among Taiwanese women
Version: 3 Date: 14 Jul 2023
Reviewer:  Sailendra Thapa
Reviewer's report:
As the authors recruited PP mothers of 3-5 days, there may be possibility of arising different
biases. So I would suggest to corresponding author to state the possible biases and the steps
taken to minimize the effect of these biases in methodology section.
Title: Excessive gestational weight gain and emotional eating are positively associated with
postpartum depressive symptoms among Taiwanese women
Version: 3 Date: 26 Jul 2023
Reviewer's report:
Comment 1: It is better that the paper has been edit by native English editor.
Comment 2: The manuscript is not organized according to the journal format.
Comment 3: Please write the introduction better and explain the importance and novelty of your
research.
Comment 4: You must state your method clearly and in detail.
Comment 5:  It is recommended that the discussion be written in the order of the findings.
Title: Depression Score Mediate the Association between A Body Shape Index and Infertility
in Overweight and Obesity Females, NHANES 2013-2018
Version: 1 Date: 22 Apr 2023
Reviewer's report:
This study was written clearly for study significance and purposes.
Study methods was well described, and results are shown to be consistent  to test study purposes.
Clinical implication and further suggestion for research are needed.
Title: Depression Score Mediate the Association between A Body Shape Index and Infertility
in Overweight and Obesity Females, NHANES 2013-2018
Version: 1 Date: 06 Jun 2023
Reviewer's report:
This study evaluated the association between ABSI and infertility in those overweight and obese
females, and explore the mediating effect of the PHQ-9 score. There are some questions and
recommendation
Please define PHQ-9 for the first time in the abstract
The conclusion is not your finding!
Please explain about the mechanism of the effect of obesity on infertility in the introduction
section
You state “Previous studies have shown that ABSI is strongly associated with infertility”, please
provide some references
It is not necessary to mention the scoring of the depression questionnaire in the introduction.
"The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between average daily vitamins
and microelements intake and females aged 40 and above with infertility and osteoporosis” In
which part of your study are these findings presented?
What is your hypothesis before conducting the analysis?
How the sample size is estimated?
Please mention the validity, and reliability of the questionnaires.
What is your conceptual model? Why did you consider depression as a mediator? Please add
significant references. Please define the mediator variable.
You measured some variables, why did you not enter them into the model?
Please explain the indirect effect of the body shape index on infertility.
You mentioned that you included infertile people in this cross-sectional study. Therefore, there
is no need to enter the information of infertile people. Your study is not a case-control study!
Please separate the variables in Table 1
Please specify what the numbers in parentheses refer to it. Determine the p-value with which
the statistical test was calculated.
Please provide the model fit indices
Please provide the indirect effect of ABSI.
Title: Depression Score Mediate the Association between A Body Shape Index and Infertility
in Overweight and Obesity Females, NHANES 2013-2018
Version: 3 Date: 19 Jul 2023
Reviewer's report:
The authors responded well to the questions. Authors need to answer the following questions.
If the validity and reliability of a questionnaire are not determined, you cannot use that tool.
Please calculate and report the validity and reliability of the instrument for your study.
In Figure 1, fertile women are not your study subjects. Please remove their information.
In line 222, what is the mean of “e” or “+13” after “2.93e+13”? please define the CI as integers.
Title: The mediating role of menstrual irregularity on obesity and sexual function in Chinese
women with pelvic floor disorders#a cross-sectional study
Version: 1 Date: 04 Feb 2023
Reviewer's report:
This is an interesting study.However, there are the following problems.
1.There are some grammar problems that need to be fixed.
2. Age, delivery time, and the presence or absence of decreased ovarian function are factors
affecting sexual dysfunction.
3. How does the author explain that there should be differences in age-specific sexual function
score.
4.Exclusion criteria are too few and there may be other confounding factors
5. Menstrual disorders are not entirely caused by hormonal imbalance#For example,
hypothyroidism.
6. Menstrual disorders whether hormonal therapy.
7. The main problem is that age is a factor, and there are confounding factors, which the authors
do not rule out.
Title: The mediating role of menstrual irregularity on obesity and sexual function in Chinese
women with pelvic floor disorders#a cross-sectional study
Version: 1 Date: 22 Feb 2023
Reviewer's report:
I read with great interest the manuscript, which falls within the aim of this Journal. In my honest
opinion, the topic is interesting enough to attract the readers’ attention. Nevertheless, the authors
should clarify some points and improve the discussion, as suggested below.
Authors should consider the following recommendations:
- Manuscript should be further revised in order to correct some typos and improve style.
- Accumulating lines of evidence already highlighted that POP has a severe impact on quality
of life and may lead to a significant impairment of sexual functions; for this reason, a
multidisciplinary approach is recommended for an accurate management. I would stress this
point, discussing some key articles: PMID: 28589780; PMID: 28584614.
- Although several approaches are able for the management of POP, the best strategy in case
of recurrence after vaginal vault prolapse still remains debated. I would discuss the available
evidence about novel techniques, referring to: PMID: 29675427; PMID: 31691118.
Title: The mediating role of menstrual irregularity on obesity and sexual function in Chinese
women with pelvic floor disorders#a cross-sectional study
Version: 4 Date: 31 May 2023
Reviewer:  Sailendra Thapa
Reviewer's report:
Comments
1. In introduction you need to add some findings showing the mediating role of menstrual
irregularity on obesity and sexual function with pelvic floor disorders. Some literature regarding
this is essential.
2.  In abstract you have written that the study was conducted among 783 but below in the body of
manuscript you have written that this study included 842 women… What exactly is the sample
size? How did you calculate sample size? Clarify it.
3. Where is the objective of the study? Please clearly state the objective of the study.
4. Regarding validity and reliability of the tool, where did you get the Cronbach #= 0.725 and a
high test–retest reliability (intraclass correlation coefficient = 0.745)? Explain it clearly.
Title: Mother-daughter communication of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) matters and
associated factors among Sinhalese adolescent girls aged 14-19 years, in Sri Lanka
Version: 2 Date: 24 Apr 2023
Reviewer's report:
Dear Author,
Thank you for the opportunity to review this paper.
The objective of this study  was to assess the existing pattern of mother-daughter communication
of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) matters among Sinhalese adolescent girls aged 14-19
years, in Sri Lanka. And a descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted to answer the research
objective.
While the title of the paper and objective are well framed and the paper is nicely presented, what
included in the result section a  slightly deviated from the objective of the paper. That is, , it
appears that the result sections  have just focused on on the the Adolescent girl's  perception of
sharing sexual health information with their mothers and associated factors.  Adding to this, even
the way that perceived communication  of girls  was classified is a bit unclear ( that is satisfied vs
unsatisfied ). Therefore, to make it more clear, I would suggest removing the term "Pattern" from
the objective and the title and focusing  on just mother-daughter communication of sexual and
reproductive health (SRH) matters and associated factors (optional) among Sinhalese adolescent
girls aged 14-19 years, in Sri Lanka.
In addition,  try to revisit the caption of "Table 4" which says  "Current Modes of Sexual Health
Information to Adolescent Girls ". I think this has to be source of information, not "mode"
Table 5:  Instead of making "0" and  "1",  you just need to specify the reference groups for each
variable included in the table. Here also include the term "multivariable logistic regression" as
the model has seemingly been adjusted for the confounders.
Discussion section: Please avoid re-presenting the results, for example , remove the
(86.4%,n=698). Just discus the your findings, in relation with the previously reported ones,  and
their implications. Further, try to rearrange the subheading headings for your discussion and
conclusion (optional). For example, you may present the "public health implications of the study
" after conclusion.
Thank you,