JerMa88/BMC_Womens_Health_Peer_Reviews huggingface dataset:
Title: Title: When Synchronous Mucinous Metaplasia and Neoplasia of the Female Genital
Tract and Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome Meet: A Case Report and Literature Reviews
Version: 4 Date: 02 Jun 2024
Reviewer's report:
The authors have addressed all the reviews and comments, and I believe that the paper, in its
current form, is of sufficient quality to be published in the journal BMC Woman's Health.
Title: Gestational weight gain and its determinants among pregnant women in Gurage zone,
Central Ethiopia: A Cohort Study
Version: 0 Date: 02 Mar 2024
Reviewer's report:
Line 71: there are researches that were conducted in different parts of Ethiopia. Why can’t these
studies can be generalized or your study area?
The study design is cross sectional not cohort. If it is cohort you need to specify your exposure,
cases and controls. You also need double population formula to calculate the sample size
Your data collection is not clear on how the weight, BMI…were collected
Can you cite the journals that were used to prepare the questionnaire?
If a pregnant woman become diabetic or hypertensive during 2nd or 3rd trimester, did you
exclude her from the study?
In your independent variables (line 129), what does underweight, normal and overweight means?
Table 1: specify other
Table 2, table 3, table 4: please minimize the decimals in to 2 decimals
I do not think the ANOVA is important. If you want to assess the relationship between the
independent and dependent variables, linear regression analysis can do that for you
Line 230: what socioeconomic differences did you assess?
Line 233-234: are normal weight pregnant women required to gain more weight than
underweight women?
Your discussion is very shallow and it seems no meaningful comparisons were made
Where are your recommendations?
What are the limitations of your study?
The conclusion you made on your abstract is much different from the one in the main document
Title: The effect of counseling based on health promotion awareness on self-care needs and
reproductive and sexual health literacy of newly married women: A randomized controlled
clinical trial study
Version: 2 Date: 02 Oct 2023
Reviewer:  Samira Khayat
Reviewer's report:
Dear Editor
In this study, the authors investigated the effect of health awareness promotion on self-care
needs and reproductive and sexual health literacy of newly married women. The results indicated
the positive effect of health promotion awareness educations on reproductive and sexual self-
care needs and health literacy among newly married women. In some cultures, teaching and
counseling sexual issues is a difficult and valuable research. Nevertheless, there were also some
issues that require clarification.
Title:
In the title, add the word consultation. The effect of counseling based on health promotion
awareness ………..
Abstract:
1. Add study time.
2. Remove this phrase: "questionnaires of socio-demographic and obstetric characterisics".
3. Add the analysis method.
4. Add statistical analysis software.
5. Only the mean scores of the questionnaires and the significance level should be reported.
6. Modify the keywords according to the title.
7. Match the keywords with the mesh.
Introduction:
1. Show the status of reproductive and sexual health and self-care of Iranian women with
statistics.
2. What interventions have been done so far to promote self-care and sexual health in women?
State the results of these studies.
3. Why is sexual counseling important for Iranian women?
Materials and methods:
1. The sampling method is written vaguely. The sampling method should be written in detail.
2. The method should be written in more detail.
3. How were the counseling sessions held? Individual or group?
4. Mention the place of consultation.
5. Why did the control group get counseling?
6. The validity and reliability of both questionnaires should be written. How was the reliability
checked in the present study?
7. The time of completing the follow-up questionnaire should be written.
Results
1. Some content is an explanation about the work method and is not written in the results.
2. The text should be edited, some contents are unclear.
3. Write the information in the table and delete it from the text. Only important information
should be written in the text.
Discussion
1. Summarize the discussion.
Conclusion
1. The conclusion should be modified based on the findings of the study.
2. Based on the results of this study, provide practical advice.
Title: The effect of counseling based on health promotion awareness on self-care needs and
reproductive and sexual health literacy of newly married women: A randomized controlled
clinical trial study
Version: 2 Date: 03 Oct 2023
Reviewer's report:
Dear authors
In the aim of the article to measure two variables
self-care needs and reproductive and sexual health literacy are mentioned. It is necessary to refer
to these two consequences and how to measure them and their results in the method and results
section.
What was the random method of assigning people in two groups?
The place and time of sampling should be used in the method. In short, what was the content
of the intervention?
The introduction is a long . It needs to be shortened.
The minimum measurement period after the intervention is 8 weeks. How do you justify the
measurement 4 weeks after the end of the intervention? Did you have a  measurement after the
intervention?
What are the statistical tests used?
What are the reasons for re-intervention?
Is there a systematic study of behavior with a similar goal?
What was the ethical consideration of the present study?
How can the power of a test be 95%?
How was the method of allocation  in two groups? Can this method used in the method be
randomly assigned?
In the intervention section, it is not clear whether the method of intervention is group or
individual?
It is necessary to refernce to the four meetings held.
Does this study have a control group? Specify exactly what the control group did?
Do the tools used have sufficient validity and reliability? It is necessary to give an explanation
about it. In the case of the first tool, this issue is not mentioned.
According to the report of statistics, should the mean differences be taken from the effect size
as well? What was the analysis approach in the present study?
Given that the determination of the sample size was based on the scores of the total instrument,
how has the analysis of the subgroups of the instruments been compared? Can the results be
reliable?
It should be clearly stated in the method that both consequences are primary consequences and
if there is a secondary consequence, mention it.
The discussion is long and you can remove unnecessary items such as cross-sectional studies.
On the other hand, it is necessary to report and interpret studies with opposite results.
Title: The effect of counseling based on health promotion awareness on self-care needs and
reproductive and sexual health literacy of newly married women: A randomized controlled
clinical trial study
Version: 4 Date: 30 May 2024
Reviewer:  Samira Khayat
Reviewer's report:
Dear Editor
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to review the article. Respected authors have made
corrections. However, a few revisions remain:
1. In the results stated in the abstract of the article, write the mean and standard deviation of
the scores.
2. Change health centers to comprehensive health centers.
3. Arrange the training content in a table. The title, purpose and content of training in each
session should be stated in the table.
4. Validity and reliability of both questionnaires should be written.
5. Move the flowchart to the method section.
Title: Direct and indirect estimation of adolescent sexual intercourse and contraceptive use in
Rajasthan India: an application of the best friend methodology
Version: 2 Date: 01 Dec 2023
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for the opportunity to read through this very interesting application of the best
friend methodology to create estimates of adolescent sexual intercourse and contraceptive use
in Rajasthan. I have a few comments below:
1. The authors might consider adding additional information or references that detail why they
expect the social desirability bias to be higher for unmarried adolescents.
2. In my understanding, another limitation of the best friend methodology is the chance that
more than one respondent chooses the same person as their "best friend". In that way, estimates
may be higher simply as a result of having the same person represented more than once.
3. The authors may consider adding additional literature around the use of this methodology for
the examination of sexual behaviors (closer related to this study's outcomes, not just abortions)
and related to adolescent's views on sharing sexual and reproductive health information with
friends. One of the core assumptions is that respondent's know the friends behaviors and adding
literature around that could help validate this assumption.
Minor Corrections:
1. On line 18 of page 4 and line 12 of page 6, the authors may consider using their SRH and
ASRH acronyms instead of the written out versions.
2. On line 15 of page 6, there should be the word "and" instead of a comma after the word active
(I believe it was an incomplete thought).
3. On line 18 of page 7, the word "they" should go after the word "whether" in the phrase whether
ever had.
Title: Direct and indirect estimation of adolescent sexual intercourse and contraceptive use in
Rajasthan India: an application of the best friend methodology
Version: 2 Date: 28 Feb 2024
Reviewer's report:
It is indeed a interesting work, hence few suggestions will surely make the manuscript much
improved -
1. Why not to restrict the samples to only girls with 1 or more friends rather taking imputed
values for having 0 friends?  Why not restrict to only 766 samples? Do you not think it becomes
loophole in your study of using imputed values as you have enough samples without that one
also?
2. Methods section should be divided by heading such as "Data", "Outcome variables",
"Predictor variables", "Statistical analysis" etc. rather  in different paragraph and need to be
focused without overlapping in the sections.
3. The discussion section needs to be further strengthened.
4. The conclusion section can not be just on single line rather it should be the major findings,
scope for future research as well as of policy implications.
Thank you and best of luck for making the changes.
Title: Uptake of Cervical Cancer Screening and Associated Factors among HIV Positive Women
Attending Adult Art Clinic at Public Hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2022
Version: 3 Date: 20 Jan 2024
Reviewer:  Miresa Midaksa
Reviewer's report:
The manuscript is nice, but some comments should be incorporated well.
• Methods and materials
1. Study area and setting: - Addis Ababa city currently has 11 sub cities starting from 2022
2. Operational: - should be focused on relevant words/phrases or clauses  that might be not clear
for the reader to understand the message; but here it is mixed with the variable measurement
example, positive attitude of CCS, negative attitude of CCS… It is better if you can make clarify
such issues in variable measurement part.
• Results: -
1. Tables should be arranged and developed using BMC standard.
2. Under methods part it was explained that ‘multivariable logistic regression analysis was done
on all variables with a p-value of less than 0.2 in the bivariate analysis’ but under result it was
not indicated. Where is it? May be table 6 which was not clear; It should be presented with table
form showing the significance too.
Title: Uptake of Cervical Cancer Screening and Associated Factors among HIV Positive Women
Attending Adult Art Clinic at Public Hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2022
Version: 3 Date: 02 Apr 2024
Reviewer's report:
This is an important article assessing the uptake of cervical cancer screening among women
living with HIV and associated factors and I would like to thank the authors for all their
contribution to the field.
Please find my comments and suggestions below
Abstract
Background: Restate the final sentence to indicate the gap in terms of a lack of literature to tell
the level of cervical cancer screening uptake
Methods: The last sentence starts with ". With a p-value of 0.05,..." please merge with a previous
sentence or start e.g. A p- value of .....
- Also specify if it is P<0.05 or just 0.05  (if this specify the reason you chose this instead of
the former)
Conclusion: What was the standard to set 'moderate' level of uptake ?
Background:  Please shorten the background and emphasise  the gap in knowldge and how this
reaseach can feel that gap and provide the context interms of the routine services included in the
HIV followup in Ethiopia highlighting if cervical ca screening is not routine service (if not).
Methods: Your eligibility criteriaexcluded women who have developed cervical cancer, and
have had hysterectomy and cervix surgery...clarify how you identified the women who already
have cervical cancer ( have you done document review )?
Operational definition: Contains both knowldge and awareness. Please define each and provide
the rationale to include both variables separately.
Data analysis and management: Please avoid the use of 'determinants' as this is just a cross-
sectional study.
- Also, from the lust of variables, it would be interesting to see if the 'stage' of HIV is one of
the factors?
Result: Specify the currency for income
Discussion: I appreciate the fact that the authors compared and contrasted with other researchers
and the implication aspect of the finding is missing from the discussion. This section needs a
major amendment.
Conclusion: This section describes that the uptake is low and the abstract section above says
'moderate'. Please be consistent and provide a reference for saying so.
-Include the line about the implication/recommendation of your finding in informing policy or
clinical practice and not repeat just the specific findings.
Miscellaneous
- This paper will benefit from language editing and proof reading . Use of tenses and punctuation
etc.
Title : Check your title which says"...Adult Art Clinic..."  make sure you have used the
appropriate abbreviation
Title: Uptake of Cervical Cancer Screening and Associated Factors among HIV Positive Women
Attending Adult Art Clinic at Public Hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2022
Version: 4 Date: 25 Apr 2024
Reviewer's report:
No further comments for me. However, I strongly recommend proofreading as the manuscript
has many editorial issues throughout. For instance, the highlighted section in the abstract starts
in lower case, has a spelling error, and is a fragmented sentence.
Title: Uptake of Cervical Cancer Screening and Associated Factors among HIV Positive Women
Attending Adult Art Clinic at Public Hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2022
Version: 4 Date: 28 Apr 2024
Reviewer:  Miresa Midaksa
Reviewer's report:
The manuscript is on better progress as it addressed the given comments properly. But need to
incorporate the current literature about the magnitude of cervical cancer in Africa in the Abstract
as well on the Introduction part.
Title: Uptake of Cervical Cancer Screening and Associated Factors among HIV Positive Women
Attending Adult Art Clinic at Public Hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2022
Version: 5 Date: 14 May 2024
Reviewer:  Miresa Midaksa
Reviewer's report:
It is done on my side right now!
So, I have no further comments.
It is had better to refine the editorial issues.
Title: Chronic endometritis multiplies the recurrence risk of endometrial polyps after
transcervical resection of endometrial polyps: a prospective study
Version: 0 Date: 25 Apr 2024
Reviewer:  Yigit Cakiroglu
Reviewer's report:
General comments:
The manuscript has been processed in accordance with the author guidelines of the journal.
The presentation of the work is clear, with regards to language and grammar. The manuscript
proposes information about the impact of chronic endometritis on the recurrence of endometrial
polyps.
Abstract:
The abstract accurately describes the short-summarized content of the article and sufficiently
reflects the content.
Key words are adequate in quality and number and representative of the research.
Introduction:
The introduction presents the purpose of the investigation and the purpose is supported by the
pertinent literature. The rationale of endometrial polyps, recurrence risk and the relationship in
between polyps and chronic endometritis have been described in the introduction section.
Materials and Methods
The materials and method section contains the type of the article, determination of the study
population. The methods section describes sufficiently to allow the study to be repeated by other
parties. The use of statistics and treatment of uncertainties are appropriate.
- Would the authors please explain if antibiotic treatment regimen has been performed for the
patients with the diagnosis of chronic endometritis?
- How did the authors perform the hysteroscopy procedure? Would they please give more
detailed information about the operation technique?
Results
The result section contains findings and observations in regards of the results.
Discussion
The authors have mentioned about the effect of antibiotic treatment as a limitation factor. This
should be further discussed in the discussion section.
References:
The references section contains appropriate and reasonable number of references and are up to
date.
Figures:
Figures are well-designed and representative.
Title: Chronic endometritis multiplies the recurrence risk of endometrial polyps after
transcervical resection of endometrial polyps: a prospective study
Version: 0 Date: 01 Jun 2024
Reviewer:  Burak Sezgi#N
Reviewer's report:
Dear editor,
first of all, I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to evaluate this article.
This is an interesting and well performed study to investigate the impact of chronic endometritis
(CE) on the recurrence of endometrial polyps (EPs) in premenopausal women after transcervical
resection of endometrial polyps (TCRP).So I think this study has value and will contribute to
the literature.
Comments to authors
-It is recommended that authors include their clinical trial gov registration number before starting
this prospective study. Please add this number if it is available
-The role of chronic endometritis in endometrial polyp formation and recurrence is explained by
study data. It would be useful for the authors to mention what can be done to prevent endometrial
polyp recurrence in the light of these data.
Title: Understanding the Contexts in which Female Sex Workers Sell Sex in Kampala, Uganda:
A Qualitative Study.
Version: 4 Date: 09 May 2024
Reviewer's report:
Just to caution on the language of, "women who recruit clients", initially it sounded like they
recruit them for services, and it is not the women (female sex workers) who go and "recruit" all
the time BUT it is also the clients coming to them to ask for (sex) services. So the language is
somewhat discriminatory and protects the man who is a client
Title: Histopathologic patterns of female genital tuberculosis with clinical correlation: A 10-
year (2013-2022) retrospective cross-sectional study
Version: 2 Date: 08 Mar 2024
Reviewer's report:
Dear authors
-In your study  PCR method has not been used,so it is better not to recommend PCR  in
conclusion
-please mention extra genitalia symptoms of TB in your patients
-Do you have any document of pap smear in patients with cervical involvement?if yes it is better
to mention.
-what was the sign and symptom of patients with cervical TB
Title: Histopathologic patterns of female genital tuberculosis with clinical correlation: A 10-
year (2013-2022) retrospective cross-sectional study
Version: 2 Date: 15 Mar 2024
Reviewer:  Kamil Fram
Reviewer's report:
# On line 25, the authors stated that: “However, taking a biopsy right before menstruation
is recommended to give the granulomas the most time to develop and provide an accurate
diagnosis”, but they did not explain why this happened and if any relation to the changes in
hormones at the menstrual cycle, particularly in the secretory phase of the cycle. I think this is
the key of the manuscript.
# On Table 4, I am not sure if the authors sampled all the tissues reported in the table, and if so,
how they did that. We cannot rely on sonographic appearance only for the diagnosis.
# On line 374, the paragraph “TB should also be considered a differential in any woman,
particularly those of reproductive age, who presents with an abdominopelvic mass and ascites
to prevent unnecessary aggressive surgical treatment. If there is any suspicion, a laparoscopic
biopsy or frozen section evaluation should be performed before any aggressive surgical
approach, especially in premenopausal women.” This statement is completely incorrect and
cannot be accepted. I think the authors must differentiate between two age groups: the
reproductive one and the postmenopausal one, as the approach is completely different, especially
worldwide, as it is not a common disease. This statement must be rephrased with a proper choice
of scientific facts.
Title: Histopathologic patterns of female genital tuberculosis with clinical correlation: A 10-
year (2013-2022) retrospective cross-sectional study
Version: 2 Date: 17 Mar 2024
Reviewer's report:
This is a crucial and clinically relevant topic that has been the focus of research since many years.
The authors of the manuscript ‘Histopathologic patterns of female genital tuberculosis with
clinical correlation: A 10-year (2013-2022) retrospective cross-sectional study’ demonstrates
the importance of histopathology in case of female genital TB. However, I do not recommend
this manuscript due to lack of novelty.
.
1. The authors should define the inclusion and exclusion criteria in the manuscript.
2. There are numerous papers on histopathology and female genital TB. Likewise, Radhika et
al (2016) published the paper on female genital TB and concluded to consider every infertile
woman of reproductive age as clinically suspected. The same has been concluded by the authors
of this manuscript. Thus, the data indicate lack of novelty.
3. As per the manuscript, the authors finally included only 122 specimens. Further, they have
not compared the results with the latest diagnostic modalities.
4. Also, the recent papers have not been included in the manuscript.
5. As per the Scientific notation, Mycobacterium tuberculosis must be in Italics.
Title: Histopathologic patterns of female genital tuberculosis with clinical correlation: A 10-
year (2013-2022) retrospective cross-sectional study
Version: 2 Date: 23 Mar 2024
Reviewer's report:
An elaborate study done by the Authors.
The study involves Gynae specimens for which histopathology reports have been submitted.
I don't see any Gynaecologist involved as part of the study.
This study does not add anything new to literature.
Title: Histopathologic patterns of female genital tuberculosis with clinical correlation: A 10-
year (2013-2022) retrospective cross-sectional study
Version: 4 Date: 03 May 2024
Reviewer:  Kamil Fram
Reviewer's report:
*THE MANUSCRIPT IS FULL OF GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION ERRORS.
* IN THE DISCUSSION SECTION, LINE 337, WHICH IS HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW
COLOR, THE PARAGRAPH SHOULD REPORT THE FACT THAT THE PROGESTERONE
HORMONE HAS A FLARING EFFECT ON THE ENDOMETRIAL TB  LOCATED AT
THE BASAL LAYER. THE HIGHEST LEVEL IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CYCLE'S
SECOND HALF RATHER THAN THE BIOPSY TO BE TAKEN SHORTLY BEFORE THE
MENSTRUATION.