Reviewer’s report
Title: 
The effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction on resilience of
vulnerable women at drop-in centers in the southeast of Iran
Version: 
2 
Date: 
26 Apr 2021
Reviewer's report:
Comments
BMWH-D-20-01257_R2_reviewer
In the study, the authors organized an interesting research program, aiming at
proving mindfulness was a useful tool to reduce the stress of vulnerable women
at drop-in centers in southeastern Iran. A quasi-experimental study was
performed with two groups and pretest and posttest design to examine the effect
of MBSR training on resilience of vulnerable women. The results were exactly
supported their hypothesis that the posttest resilience score of the intervention
group increased significantly.
1. To the background, there are too many words to tell the reader the detailed
definition of related areas, well the very important part the mindfulness should
be more highlight. 
2. The author should carefully design the study when the intervention group and
control group have obviously disparity, even they declared this a limitation, the
marital status, age groups and the description in the discussion Participants in the
control group were living in rented houses in suburbs with no insurance
coverage, so they were raped and physically abused compared with the
participants in the intervention group all weaken the study validity.
3. For the discussion, the authors should organize the description more
rigorously and smoothly, the purpose of the discussion was to analyze the
results, not to defend.
4. Too much unrelated words were described in the conclusion, only the core
results were needed here.
5. Carefully modify occasional text errors and formatting errors.
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