JerMa88/BMC_Womens_Health_Peer_Reviews huggingface dataset:
Title: Association between history of abortion and current use of contraceptives among
Mongolian Women
Version: 1 Date: 06 Jan 2022
Reviewer:  Seyedeh Zahra Masoumi
Reviewer's report:
1-In Introduction Explain the scientific background
2 -  In Study Setting, Sampling and data collection Give the eligibility criteria
3-In method Describe potential sources of bias
4- In Study Setting, Sampling and data collection Explain briefly about the content of the
questionnaire used.
5-In Statistical Analysis  describe all methods used to control for confounding
6-In result Explain if you did not participate in the study and lost data?
7 - In discussion section  Compare the data with global statistics
8- Conclusion Be shortened
Title: Association between history of abortion and current use of contraceptives among
Mongolian Women
Version: 1 Date: 31 Jan 2022
Reviewer's report:
The authors
1. fail to acknowledge the well published evidence for under reporting of abortion histories in
surveys. Unless authors have and can cite evidence that Mongolian women do report virtually
all lifetime abortions in surveys, this analysis seems unlikely to be worth reporting.
2. have not chosen a research question that leads to useful policy or program change. Targeting
women seeking abortion for increased contraceptive acceptance does not consider whether
these women need or want contraception. They may prefer abstinence  and using abortion for
contraceptive failure.
3. have a number in the percent column in wealth index
Title: Association between history of abortion and current use of contraceptives among
Mongolian Women
Version: 3 Date: 28 Mar 2022
Reviewer's report:
This manuscript has been greatly improved. I still have one major comment and I apologize
that I was not clear  in my initial review. The models based on any current contraception use
is correct. However for type of contraception, the authors should create one categorical birth
control type variable and use that in the models. It appears , but is unclear that they made 8
separate variables and while the referent group may be no contraception, they created 8 separate
models x4 = 32 models which creates a  multiple comparisons issue that can easily be avoided.
The correct model should be history of abortion as the outcome and the following variable:
Contra type:
none= 0 (referent)
female sterilization= 1
IUD = 2
Injectable = 3
Implant = 4
Pills = 5
Male condoms = 6
Female condoms = 7
Abstinent = 8
Then the authors can run the 4 models with and  without the other covariates. This may have
been done but I don't believe so based on the text in the methods.
Title: Association between history of abortion and current use of contraceptives among
Mongolian Women
Version: 3 Date: 24 Apr 2022
Reviewer's report:
You assert that: "Increase in uptake of contraceptives and a decrease of abortion use
will effectively minimize health risks attributed to elective abortions."
Please provide a comparison between health risks associated with "no contraception", "specific
methods of contraception", and "abortion early in pregnancy" as strategies for successfully
preventing unwanted pregnancy leading to live birth.
"No contraception" will have greatest health risks, but is there any evidence that contraception
has lower health risks than abortion early in pregnancy?
Your study might contribute more persuasively if you had studied why women choose
contraception or choose abortion without using contraception. Does it relate to quality of
services? Infrequency of sexual intercourse and perceived risk of becoming pregnant?
Title: Super-additive associations between parity and education level on mortality from
cardiovascular disease and other causes: The Japan Collaborative Cohort Study
Version: 0 Date: 04 Nov 2021
Reviewer's report:
This manuscript describes analysis of data from a large cohort of women looking at parity,
education, and their interaction in relation to mortality.  The topic is of interest and the data
appropriate.
In the introduction the Israel Longitudinal Mortality Study II is described as including 60,000
Americans, is this a mistake?
Intro suggests that both higher education and parity are associated with reduced CVD mortality.
Do the authors believe these are causal associations?  This is important in interpreting results
and what you might do about it.
Why would the association between SES and overall health be based on a mixture of factor
related to parity?
Justification for evaluating the interaction between education and parity is weak.
“How many was your parity?” doesn’t make sense in English, and for English speaking women
the term parity might not be well understood.  Would be interesting to know more about the
wording of the question and whether it had been tested to make sure women understood what
was being asked.
Why was parity divided into a yes/no response?  Is it not possible that being pregnant 10 times
is different to being pregnant twice for example?
The section describing the distribution of parity and education is not easy to follow.  The
proportion of parous women with high education levels is not 58.5%, this is the percentage of
all women who are both parous and have high education as far as I can tell.
It is important to interpret the results from this analysis appropriately.  While parity may impact
on CVD risk it might be that nulliparity and CVD are associated with common underlying
factors.  Either way it seems unlikely that a public health campaign would recommend women
to have children to reduce their CVD risk so what is the message from the findings?
It may just be me, but Table 2 is very difficult to read and needs to be spaced out and re-formatted,
perhaps in landscape, so it is easier to read. Table 1 might also be better in landscape format.
The authors need to give some consideration to the confounders adjusted for in their models.  If a
directed acyclic graph was used to select confounders for the association between education and
mortality I suspect the variables selected would not be the same as for the association between
parity and CVD.  For example, it is hard to see how current BMI could be a confounder of the
association for education as current BMI is after education and both may be the results of poor
SES in childhood, while it is quite reasonable to assume BMI could affect fertility and mortality
risk.
Title: Super-additive associations between parity and education level on mortality from
cardiovascular disease and other causes: The Japan Collaborative Cohort Study
Version: 3 Date: 21 Mar 2022
Reviewer's report:
The authors have addressed my main comments
Minor comments
1.
Line 71: Replace “We hypothesized that both nulliparity and low education level may have more
than additive interactions, resulting in a higher risk of mortality associated with CVD and other
causes. In this context, it is important to examine the interaction on an additive scale from a
public health perspective. Because the two risk factors are independent, interactions between
two risk factors correspond to deviations from additivity of causality [18]”
with
“It is important to utilise additive interaction for this research question, because deviations from
additivity is more important from a public health standpoint. In this context, two risk factors
are independent, when the number of events is also independent on whether they act jointly or
not. In this study, we hypothesized that both nulliparity and low education level may have more
than additive interactions, resulting in a higher risk of mortality associated with CVD and other
cause”
2. Line 155: Replace “using delta-methods” with “Using the delta method”
Title: Super-additive associations between parity and education level on mortality from
cardiovascular disease and other causes: The Japan Collaborative Cohort Study
Version: 3 Date: 23 Mar 2022
Reviewer's report:
Lines 63-64.  Remove reference to European, American etc.  The participants in the study were
all in Israel and this makes it sound multinational.
New lines 68-69 does not make sense.  Do you mean SES is a determinant of health?
The Introduction seems to mix SES and education which are related but different things.
Still no evidence to suggest why the authors thought there might be an interaction between parity
and education.
Line 141-42. Do hours of exercise include walking? These should be two independent
confounders or just adjust for exercise including walking.
Many of the variables included as confounders would be likely to be mediators of the association
between low education and mortality so it is not clear that they should be adjusted for.  On the
other hand they may be confounders for nulliparity and mortality.  This needs to be discussed.
Not clear how multiplicative interactions were assessed.  Does RERI do this as well?
Line 189, Table 3 shows associations for specific sub-groups of CVD.  Table 3 heading should
be changed.
Line 198. New sentence does not make sense grammatically.  Do you mean ‘supra-additive
associations’? Same lines 309-310.
Line 201. Talks about ‘super-additive’ is this same as supra-additive’?  It should be super-
additive on all occasions.
Line 302-303 mentions a sensitivity analysis ‘sensitivity analysis for additive interaction of
parity (nulliparous or parity 1–3)’ but this was not mentioned in methods or results, also not
clear where all the women with parity >3 have gone.
The manuscript is not very convincing regarding the existence or importance of the interaction
of parity and education.
Lines 311-314.  How does your research support these conclusions that nulliparous, poorly
educated women need more access to health information and encouragement to follow a healthy
lifestyle?  You have not investigated the reasons for an association between these factors and
mortality.
Title: Contraceptive Uptake and Associated Factors Among Women in the Immediate
Postpartum Period at Kawempe Hospital
Version: 2 Date: 16 Jun 2021
Reviewer:  Juel Rana
Reviewer's report:
This research article brings an interesting exercise assessing the contraceptive uptake in the
immediate postpartum period and its association with the socio-economic and demographic
factors collecting data from the Kawempe hospital. This study used appropriate methods for
addressing the research question. The conclusions are based upon the findings. However, I have
some observations which can be incorporated in the revised version of the manuscript.
1. In this study, the contraceptive methods of interest ranged from a short-acting reversible
method like a condom to irreversible methods such as BTL. The likelihood of uptake of
the BTL method (permanent) within 72 hours of delivery would be higher than the uptake
of condoms (short term). There is a fundamental difference in the motivation of adopting
reversible and irreversible contraceptive methods. The adoption of the irreversible contraceptive
methods indicates that the individual or couple has achieved their desired family size. Since the
permanent method like BTL needs a surgical procedure, the individual or couple may prefer
the uptake of BTL immediately after delivery. Among the reversible methods, the implant
needs medical personnel to be inserted. Thus, the likelihood of insertion of this method may
be higher immediately after delivery than the other short-acting method like pill and condom.
The uptake of condoms or pills does not need direct medical intervention. So, the question is,
what is the justification for combining all these contraceptive methods into the same categories?
The separate statistical analyses for different types of contraceptive methods are not feasible
given the limitation of the small sample size. Therefore, the authors should interpret the findings
carefully mentioning the limitation of this study.
2. The variable of the birth interval is not significantly associated with the uptake of
contraceptive methods. Perhaps it is partially because of combining all types of contraceptive
methods into the same category. It may also have resulted from the poor awareness about the
benefits of long birth intervals among the eligible population.
3. One of the key challenges of a developing country is about prevailing short birth spacing. Mere
the provision of information on contraceptive methods to its population may not help to increase
the uptake of contraceptive methods if the individuals or couple are not aware of the benefits
of a healthy birth interval. The focus on counselling should not be limited to the contraceptive
methods but also the benefits of birth interval.
Title: Contraceptive Uptake and Associated Factors Among Women in the Immediate
Postpartum Period at Kawempe Hospital
Version: 5 Date: 17 Apr 2022
Reviewer:  Juel Rana
Reviewer's report:
I see that my comments have been addressed in the revised version of the manuscript. So I
recommend this manuscript to be published. However, I suggest for the language editing before
it is published.
Title: The most appropriate cervical dilatation for massage to reduce labor pain and anxiety: A
randomized clinical trial
Version: 3 Date: 15 Mar 2022
Reviewer's report:
The most effective massage time in reducing labor pain: A randomized clinical trial study
Thank you for inviting me to review this manuscript. Please see my comments as follows:
Abstract
while authors measured anxiety of women, why they only indicated pain in the title.
This manuscript has some grammatical and typo errors and need to be revised by a native English
linguistic.
Methods: there is more information about how and where authors performed massage. How long
took each massage. Did they use any oil in time of massage?
Background
1. Please cite more relevant studies to justify why this study was necessary to conduct.
2. Authors only used eight references in this section that is not enough.
Methods
1. Inclusion criteria: what was the dilation of cervix in time of recruitment for the study. Were
they in the active phase?
2. What authors mean about simple randomization? Did they use any software?
3. Some drop-out from the study considered as exclusion criteria such as “discontinuation of
the intervention”
4. How authors measured the validity of the demographic questionnaire?
5. Flow diagram of the study: it is not clear which group is intervention and which one is control?
6. Such as what I mentioned in abstract, if authors used any oil in time of massage, please
mention it.
7. There is lack of information such as if participants received pregnancy preparation classes.
8. Where was the setting of the study? Was it public or private hospital? Did participants have
private room?
9. How many times authors performed anxiety questionnaire? Who measured pain and anxiety?
Who recorded labor duration and other information?
10. Please mention the reliability and validity of STAI questionnaire in Iran, if any.
11. How weight and height of participants were measured?
12. How this study was single blind?
Results
1. Table 1: why authors did not calculate BMI?
2. Please put other demographic characteristics such as job, economic status, and education of
participants in table 1.
3. Table 2: please report p=0.000, as p<0.0001.
4. Table 3: please report mean and SD of anxiety for each group and then mean difference of
this variable.
Title: The most appropriate cervical dilatation for massage to reduce labor pain and anxiety: A
randomized clinical trial
Version: 3 Date: 27 Mar 2022
Reviewer's report:
Overall it is  good research but the following points should be paid more attention.
The effective time of massage induces the duration of the massage and you don’t mean this. It
needs to be corrected. For example, appropriate dilation for massage.
The appropriate keywords have not been selected. For example, the word time is not appropriate.
There is a need to edit a person who is fluent in concepts and language.
Some spelling mistakes are seen.
The conclusion part does not fit in the summary and text. Which dilatation do you mean? 5 or
7 or both?
Explain that what do you mean by single-blind?
Title: The most appropriate cervical dilatation for massage to reduce labor pain and anxiety: A
randomized clinical trial
Version: 3 Date: 03 Apr 2022
Reviewer:  Mansoureh Yazdkhasti
Reviewer's report:
Dear Author(s),
1. In the findings section, the abstract, should be written quantitatively with the P-value.
2. How is the simple random method performed in the methodology section?
3. In the methodology section of the abstract, write the same number of people who have been
analyzed.
4. Who measured dilatation?
5. Is the massage done by one person?
6. How was the ethic of pain relief observed for the control group?
7. The baseline table is incomplete. ? The numbers inside the tables need to be edited.
8. Appropriate test was not used to measure the three-time points 5, 7, and 9.
Title: The most appropriate cervical dilatation for massage to reduce labor pain and anxiety: A
randomized clinical trial
Version: 7 Date: 03 May 2022
Reviewer's report:
I thank authors as they responded most of my previous comments. Now the manuscript was
improved. However, some issues remained without response, that authors should address them.
1.This study was not single-blind and it was open trial. Women in the intervention group were
aware of massage and they could not be blind.
2. I still insist that authors should add anxiety to the title section.
3. demographic questionnaire is a questionnaire and not a check-list. Please correct it and write
how did you check the validity of this questionnaire?
4. this study still has some grammatical and typo errors and should be revised by a person who is
fluent in English. Please attach English editing certificate with the revised version of manuscript.
5. flow-diagram of study: What do you mean about “defect report”?
6. please remove following sentence from the under figure 1: Diagram to demonstrate participant
flow throughout the study. CONSORT flow diagram of the study design. This study will
be conducted and reported on the basis of the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials
(CONSORT) 2010 statement. The figure shows the flow diagram of the randomized controlled
protocol
en.irct.ir/trial/28120
7. what is the meaning of following sentence: The distribution of most data was obtained using
the abnormal Kolmogorov–Smirnov test”? please get advice from your statistician.
8. how authors compare categorical data?
9. While in the “IRCT” registration site, the registration recorded as “retrospective”, why
authors mentioned it as “ prospective”? and please add the starting and completing date for data
collection.
Results
1. Table 1: why authors provided mean and SD for job and education? They should use
categorical format for this variable. And categorical variables need to be analyzed using Chi-
square.
2. Table 1: because authors have weight and height in their hand, still I insist on calculating BMI,
3.  Please use high school and secondary high school for “before diploma” degree.
Undergraduate is used for “university degree”.
4. Table 2: as I requested in my previous comments, please prepare mean and SD for pain in
each dilation along with mean difference.
5. Please avoid reporting p=0.00, and report it as p<0.0001.
6. I recommend that instead of independent t-test, authors use ANCOVA test.
Title: The most appropriate cervical dilatation for massage to reduce labor pain and anxiety: A
randomized clinical trial
Version: 8 Date: 20 May 2022
Reviewer's report:
Thank to authors as they considered most of my previous comments. Although the manuscript
improved, but there are some minor comments that should be addressed by authors:
Please correct minot grammatical and typo errors. One example is: message was used instead
of massage.
list the abbreviations of the manuscript such as LDR, ANCOVA...
Independent T-Test should be written as: independent t-test.
Conclusion of main test: you did not measure the childbirth satisfaction, please remove it from
conclusion.
please state the proper unit for BMI in table 1.
please provide number and percentages for categorical data such as occupation and educational
attainment.
Employer in Table 1, should be Employee.
Conclusion: Please replace first experience women with nulliparous women.
Please change the legend of Figure 1 as follows: Flow diagram of recruitment and retention of
participants in the study
Title: The most appropriate cervical dilatation for massage to reduce labor pain and anxiety: A
randomized clinical trial
Version: 8 Date: 28 May 2022
Reviewer:  Ahmed M. Maged
Reviewer's report:
Interesting study. Some issues need clarification
1. Inclusion and exclusion criteria what about women with neurological and psychological
conditions that may affect pain and anxiety
2. Any associated medical disorders or family problems
3. parity analysis and current marital status
4. Social and financial class
5. Sample size or power calculation
6. Please define your 1ry and 2ry outcomes
7. Add strengths , limitations and physiological explanation of your findings to discussion
Title: Clinical features and recurrence of Corynebacterium kroppenstedtii infection in patients
with mastitis
Version: 3 Date: 05 Mar 2022
Reviewer's report:
Summary
Granulomatous mastitis is a common benign inflammatory disease of the breast. Despite the
fact that several factors, such as immune dysregulation, microbial infection, and hormonal
components, may be involved in pathogenesis, it is the search for a microbial pathogen that
remains one of the urgent problems of modern microbiology and medicine. No less relevant is
the treatment of this disease. This study aims to determine the clinical features of patients with
C. kroppenstedtii-infected mastitis and compare the efficacy of various treatments for patients
with C. kroppenstedtii-infected mastitis, including topical lavage (triamcinolone acetonide) in
combination with cefuroxime. I have read this manuscript with great interest. In my opinion, the
work presents novel data, and is within the journal's scope. The article may be accepted after
minor revision of content.
Minor essential revisions
The following are some comments and suggestions that need minor review:
Introduction
The names of the genus and species of microorganisms, italicize, verify throughout the text
L 76   “Staphylococcus aureus”
L 78    “C. kroppenstedtii”
Methods
There is no detailed description of how the material was collected and inoculated from this
material of a bacterial culture, how a pure culture was isolated, etc.
Other types of microorganisms can also act as an etiological agent of mastitis. In this regard,
the assertion that it is C. kroppenstedtii that is the causative agent of mastitis may not be
substantiated.  The mastitis, as a rule, several activators are allocated. In this regard, the question
is: What other types of organisms were isolated from the material. Have you analyzed by types
of pathogen, colony count, percentage, etc.?
Results
L 178  “… old, were diagnosed with C. klebsiella-infected mastitis, with one case diagnosed
as…”
This is a technical error, or the causative agent of mastitis in this work is C. Klebsiella ?
Clarify please.
Title: A randomised controlled trial on the effects of a structural education module among
women with polycystic ovarian syndrome on nutrition and physical activity changes
Version: 2 Date: 28 Dec 2021
Reviewer's report:
I read with great interest the manuscript, which falls within the aim of this Journal. In my honest
opinion, the topic is interesting enough to attract the readers’ attention. Nevertheless, authors
should clarify some points and improve the discussion, as suggested below.
Authors should consider the following recommendations:
- Manuscript should be further revised in order to correct some typos and improve style.
- Accumulating evidence suggests that one of the most important mechanisms of PCOS
pathogenesis is the insulin-resistance. For this reason, the use of insulin-sensitizers, such as
inositol isoforms, gained increasing attention due to their safety profile and effectiveness.
Authors may better discuss this point, taking to account these recent articles: PMID: 26927948;
PMID: 27579037;  PMID: 28835764