Reviewer’s report
Title: 
The effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction on resilience of
vulnerable women at drop-in centers in the southeast of Iran
Version: 
2 
Date: 
15 May 2021
Reviewer's report:
Please overwrite this text when adding your commenThe manuscript deals with
a quasi-experimental study of users of a health care service through
Mindfulness-based stress reduction and its impact on the participants' resilience.
The authors present a solid review based on articles that are predominantly
current and of various themes directly and indirectly related to the theme, which
leads the reader to obtain a state of the art of the theoretical construct. There are
specific needs for attention to spelling throughout the text (spacing between
punctuation and words) and expressions in upper and lower case also in the
tables.
The methodological and analytical aspects are compatible with the objective in
order to meet the aspects of the analysis, especially the statistics for obtaining
results. The authors can describe in greater detail the conduct of Mindfulness-
based stress reduction procedures (times, reception process in each phase, in
addition to possible complications in each phase), characterizing, in view of the
possibility of replicating the study, possible biases. It is noteworthy the use of
classes for age and schooling because these variables could be better treated from
a statistical point of view in more robust analyzes, Although they could offer
other possibilities of analysis (multifactoriality, revision of the indicators of the
instruments - alpha factor analysis etc) , in addition to verifying the impact of
age and education on the resilience process and or even performance on
Mindfulness-based stress reduction, the data adequately support the findings and
the conclusion. Pointing out the limitations characterizes the criticality and
breadth of results to the investigation plan. The possibility of a follow-up study
to suggest the effectiveness of the intervention is suggested, as well as the
possibility of verifying temporal aspects in resilience.ts to the authors.
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