Reviewer’ s report
Title: Factors affecting cervical cancer screening uptake, visual inspection with acetic acid
positivity and its predictors among women attending cervical cancer screening service in AddisAbaba, Ethiopia
Version: 2Date: 28 Mar 2020
Reviewer: Paolo Giorgi Rossi
Reviewer's report:
the paper has been improved. I have only some suggestions.I suggest to avoid the word
"magnitude" in title and abstract, positivity in a population is already a quantitative concept, so itis obvious that you are looking at and comparing the magnitude of the phenomenon.The authorsaccepted to avoid a thhreshold foor significance, but in the results they are still looking at the p-value 0.05 as a difference between what is "significant" and what is not, my suggestion is tocoonsider p-value as a continuum.Pag 10 there is a sentence stating "significant randomfluctuation", this sounds strange since usually we say significant when something has a deviationfrom what is expeected due to only random fluctuation, I suggest to say "important".
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