Reviewer ’s report  
 
Title:  Depression, sexual dysfunction and sexual quality of life in women with infertility  
 
Version: 0 Date: 15 Mar 2018 
 
Reviewer:  FRANCISCA  MOLERO  
 
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The conclussions should be more elaborated  
 
On the tab le number 3: Goal/objective is not well explained.They did a comparison based on 
questionnaires instead of doing it based on population studies.  
 
On the table number 4: regresion analysis. It's a correlation table instead of a comparison one. 
And more data is missing  
 
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Yes 
 
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Yes 
 
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Yes 
 
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I recommend additional statistical review  
 
Quality of written English  
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Acceptable  
 
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