Title: Women’s experience and perspectives toward genital cosmetic surgery in Erbil city/Iraq:
A qualitative study
Version: 3 Date: 10 Apr 2022
Reviewer's report:
Women’s experience and perspectives toward genital cosmetic surgery: A qualitative study"
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. This is an interesting and well-written study with novel findings. Some minor changes is
recommended to promote the quality of presenting the work.
1- The place of the study should be mentioned in the title
2- I suggest using the word " exploration" instead of the word "explanation", which is more
appropriate for a qualitative study.
3- I advise the authors to find a native English speaker to proofread the manuscript. There are
numerous instances of improper grammar and sentence structure. Editing the paper by native
speakers is important in qualitative research. .
4- In the last paragraph of the introduction, you should fully explain why you used the qualitative
method?
5- In method session .
6- Because the purpose of the study is to discover the participants' understanding and experience,
it is better to use the phenomenological method rather than content analysis.
- What kind of content analysis? Please mention
-Explain the exclusion and inclusion criteria
-The method of data collection in the abstract section and the method do not match. In-depth
or semi-in-depth interviews or both?
- Explain more about how participants access and select
Please provide the interview questions in the table.
- State the time and place of the interviews - the average time of the interviews
- Your description of the data analysis method is incomplete and ambiguous. Please explain
further
- Please explain how ‘theoretical saturation’ was judged. I assume it was judged to have been
attained when no new themes or information emerged in subsequent interviews. It would be
helpful to justify your point about saturation and sample size with a reference to a methodological
text, to support your point. I suggest you refer to the following articles:
-Mansourian, M., Taghdisi, M. H., Khosravi, B., Ziapour, A., & Özdenk, G. D. (2019). A study
of Kurdish women’s tragic self-immolation in Iran: a qualitative study. Burns, 45(7), 1715-1722
-Explain more about how the Goba and Lincoln criteria are used. Just saying that you used them
is not enough.
7- In the results section
- Mention important characteristics of the participant such as, age, etc. at the end of each quote
- Provide more in-depth explanation of the following categories. It is more a description than
an explanation
8- In the discussion section,
-The discussion can be improved further by include more previous study, try to add more study
and be more logical.
-emphasize the new research findings and mention what your research added to the previous
research
-A lot of the discussion felt like it was either restating findings from the results or bringing up
findings that were not in the results, rather than really discussing what the results mean. I think
this paper would be much stronger if the results were expanded to really describe all the different
aspects of each category. Then, the discussion could focus on what this means and why it matters.
- Please mention the limitations and strengths of the research