Reviewer’s report
Title: 
The Components of Workplace Violence against Nurses from the Perspective of Women Working
in a Hospital in Tehran: A Qualitative Study
Version: 
2 
Date: 
31 Dec 2020
Reviewer's report:
The present study studied the violence may encounter the nurses in hospital from their perspective. It is
interesting topic and area of women's health. Following comments will improve the study:
In general the sections of the study is well written. 
English editing is required. 
applying the refences in the text need revision as in some place authors wrote full name of the other
authors, in some just initial, in some the first letter of initial and so on. for example in page 3, line 16;
page 16, line 25 and 41; page 17, lines 34, 35, 39, 56; ... and other pages. The number of references in
some place located after dot and in other before dot. Please unify them according journal guideline. 
Methods
Page 3:
Line 42 is incomplete. There is no clarify this hospital give service to whom? 
Line 45 and 46 can be mentioned in the introduction. 
Line 58 in page 3 and line 1-4 in page 4 is not necessary to explain the characteristics of the data collector
in this detail. 
Page 5, Line 7, Explain the abbreviation of MAXQDA. 
Results
First line put dash between 24 and 40 years.
Table 1, the columns are inverse! Please write column in left to right. And also it is without title.
Table 2, has not title. Please add the title. And also I suggest to put the 15 classes and then 6 classes and
then theme. Explain about it in the text. 
Page 11, line 45-46: " health of the body and psychiatrists..." is unclear. Please clarify it. Line 53, the
participant what means by 100 hours in how much duration? one week or month?
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