Reviewer’ s report
Title: Knowledge, attitude, practice, and predictors of female genital mutilation in Degadamot
district, Amhara regional state, Northwest Ethiopia, 2018.
Version: 0Date: 18 Jan 2020
Reviewer: Hamdia Mirkhan Ahmed
Reviewer's report:
The present study focused on assessing the knowledge, attitude and practice of Ethiopia people
regarding FGM which still a women health problem.
In general the paper is well written and the researchers tried to imply to all components of a
research in details, however following comments may improve it.Abstract
conclusion: the researchers mentioned that the knowledge of mother is low and unfavorable
attitude, but in methods according the score considered for good knowledge and favorable attitude,the results shows that the sample had good knowledge and attitude. Please clarify this. Theconclusion, results and methods have be matched.
Backgroundlines 23-24 is repeated in lines 47-50 with different references. Please clarify and unit it.
Objectives has to be written at the end of background.
Methodsline 18-19: rewrite "all volunteer to respond mothers" to " all volunteer mothers who respond and
had female children of under five years of age........".
Second paragraph: if you had data regarding the total number of household it is better to add.line 38: what you mean by MSC? please clarify.line 45: could clarify more how the sensitivity of the subject and....... was assessed?line 58: mentioned ten question but in table 2 there is 9 question! please clarify it.line 58 and 6: remove brackets of mentioned mean value which are the main part of the sentence.line 12-17, 2nd page of methods: there is not clear that three words of belief, custom and value
used what for? and at the same time is used in table 4 as variables. Could explain and clarify more.
Results
Table 1: highlight the merchant as other type of occupation.Table 2 and 3: asking items of knowledge and attitude in question form make bias especially
regarding attitude that there is 5 responses to the items. I recommend to put items in descriptive.
line 52-54 of sub title female genital mutilation practice: the researchers provide such information
which is not shown in the figure. Please clarify more about days of postnatal age.
Are the methods appropriate and well described?
If not, please specify what is required in your comments to the authors.
YesDoes the work include the necessary controls?
If not, please specify which controls are required in your comments to the authors.
Unable to assessAre the conclusions drawn adequately supported by the data shown?
If not, please explain in your comments to the authors.
Yes
Are you able to assess any statistics in the manuscript or would you recommend an
additional statistical review?If an additional statistical review is recommended, please specify what aspects require furtherassessment in your comments to the editors.
I am able to assess the statisticsQuality of written English
Please indicate the quality of language in the manuscript:
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