JerMa88/BMC_Womens_Health_Peer_Reviews huggingface dataset:
Reviewer's report
Title:"If you can't treat HPV, why test for it?" Women's attitudes to the changing
face of cervical cancer prevention - a focus group study.
Version:1Date:7 January 2014
Reviewer: Nnabuike Chibuoke Ngene
Reviewer's report:
Reviewer’s report
Manuscript title: “If you can’t treat HPV, why test for it?” Women’s attitudes to the
changing face of cervical cancer prevention: a focus group study.
This is a focus group conducted in Ireland aimed to determine the knowledge
and attitude of women towards cervical cancer prevention and screening by
cervical cytology, HPV oncogenic testing and vaccination. Standardized
information on HPV testing, infection and vaccination were provided to the
participants during the group session. Thematic analysis was performed and the
findings showed that the uptake and success of the new cervical cancer
screening will be enhanced if appropriate information and health education are
provided to women.
Major Compulsory Revisions:
Originality check was done on the appendix. This showed that 93% of the words
were similar to those of another author. Ensure that the appendix is presented in
a way that does not constitute plagiarism. The authors may consider seeking
permission from the original author(s).
Minor Essential Revisions:
1. Be consistent with the use of “cervical cancer screening.” The use of “cervical
screening” may be misunderstood to be referring to determination of other
variables in the cervix, such as cervical length. Alternatively, indicate at the
outset that cervical screening means cervical cancer screening.
2. The transcript was not returned/discussed with to the research participants. It
is possible that the participants could have made correction(s) thereby improving
the quality of the data.
Discretionary Revisions:
1. In the method subsection of the abstract insert “in Ireland” after “primary care”
in the sentence: “Fifty nine women, recruited through primary care, participated in
ten focus groups.”
2. In the conclusion section of the abstract, insert “that” between “ensure” and
“future” in the sentence: “To ensure future cervical cancer prevention strategies
will be acceptable to women, sufficient thought will have to be given to
information provision and education.”
3. Arrange the key words in alphabetical order, thus: Cervical screening, HPV
testing, HPV vaccination, qualitative.
4. In the 6th paragraph of method, place a coma between “…HPV vaccination”
and “groups…” in the sentence: “In the discussion on HPV vaccination groups
were invited to discuss: attitudes to vaccinations in…”
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests
Reviewer's report
Title:"If you can't treat HPV, why test for it?" Women's attitudes to the changing
face of cervical cancer prevention - a focus group study.
Version:3Date:26 March 2014
Reviewer: samuel O Obi
Reviewer's report:
while this suggestion is discretionary, I must state the authors had not addressed
most of the issues highlighted in my previous report as it concerns the
methodology especially:
1. How they ensured that the sampled population is representative of the study
area .
it is not enough for the authors to explain this based on the result obtained in the
study.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interest
Reviewer's report
Title:"If you can't treat HPV, why test for it?" Women's attitudes to the changing
face of cervical cancer prevention - a focus group study.
Version:3Date:28 March 2014
Reviewer: Nnabuike Chibuoke Ngene
Reviewer's report:
The authors have responded satisfactorily to the comments raised.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests.
Reviewer's report
Title:Predictors of HIV prevalence among street-based female sex workers in
Andhra Pradesh state of India: a district-level analysis
Version:1Date:28 February 2014
Reviewer: Frances Cowan
Reviewer's report:
This is an interesting secondary analysis of data collected from 2 consecutive
IBBA surveys in Andrah Pradesh, and district level to determine what factors are
associated with HIV prevalence and HIV decline in that state.
I do not think the paper needs any major revisions
Minor essential revisions
There are lots of grammatical errors in the paper that make it more difficult to
read than it needs to be.
It should be made clear that the measurement of condom use is based on
reported condom use throughout
This sentence in the introduction does not make sense
In this background, we assessed certain individual and contextual risk factors for
HIV prevalence among street-based FSWs in Andhra Pradesh, and examined
the effect of Avahan program indicators on HIV prevalence in IBBA second
round.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Needs some language corrections before being
published
Statistical review: Yes, but I do not feel adequately qualified to assess the
statistics.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests
Reviewer's report
Title:Prevalence of domestic violence during pregnancy and related risk factors:
a cross-sectional study in southern Sweden
Version:1Date:18 February 2014
Reviewer: Caren Frost
Reviewer's report:
I found this to be an interesting and quite clearly written article. The overarching
research question is needed for a further understanding of domestic violence and
women’s health during pregnancy. The purpose and methods are well defined
and clearly presented. In addition, the use of the different tools and their
reliability/validity was nicely discussed so that others completing a similar study
would know what to use and why. The data appear to be sound and the authors
explain clearly how the data were collected and then managed before analysis.
The analysis component was well done, and I think well presented. Otherwise,
this is a timely, and well-researched and clearly presented work that should be
published. It provides a good discussion about the prevalence of DV and the
social/policy context of this issue during pregnancy.
Items to Consider
It would have been nice to have a discussion earlier on about the difference
between DV, IPV, etc. so that the reader understands where the authors are
taking this discussion.
I did not see an abstract for this article. Was there one?
Level of interest: An article of outstanding merit and interest in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: Yes, and I have assessed the statistics in my report.
Declaration of competing interests:
I have no competing interests. I review articles on DV for other journals; however,
this is not my research focus and do not believe I have competing interests here.
Reviewer's report
Title:Associations of Cardiorespiratory Fitness with Cardiovascular Disease Risk
Factors in Middle-aged Chinese Women: A Cross-sectional Study
Version:1Date:4 March 2014
Reviewer: Hirohito Sone
Reviewer's report:
Associations between CRF and major CV risk factors such as diabetes,
dyslipidemia, hypertension or metabolic syndrome, CV events, and mortality
have been already well established in prospective settings and meta-analyses.
Therefore, there is very little novelty in this local cross-sectional study which
include relatively small number of people and statistically underpowered.
Level of interest: An article of insufficient interest to warrant publication in a
scientific/medical journal
Quality of written English: Needs some language corrections before being
published
Statistical review: Yes, and I have assessed the statistics in my report.
Declaration of competing interests:
None
Reviewer's report
Title:Associations of Cardiorespiratory Fitness with Cardiovascular Disease Risk
Factors in Middle-aged Chinese Women: A Cross-sectional Study
Version:1Date:25 March 2014
Reviewer: Tyrone G Ceaser
Reviewer's report:
1. The authors sought to better understand the relationship between CRF and
disease risk in a group of young Chinese adult women. While there are many
reports of relationships b/t CVD and CRF in other ethnic groups, there are few in
Chinese women. Further, the Chinese population is ever increasing and disease
rates are more similar to Western civilization than ever before. The authors are
commended for their work.
Major Compulsory Revisions:
Introduction:
The authors briefly cite the unclear relationship b/t CRF and fitness, arterial
stiffness, and abnormal ECG, However they do not discuss the relationship of
these variable with health and mortality (e.g. increased fatness = increased risk)
1. Why did the researchers use a cycle ergometer? This will definitely underscore
the womens' true fitness values. The authors should consider providing
justification.
2. How valid is the VO2max criterion measure? Has s the Cortex Metalyzer been
validated in this group of women or any other population?
3. The authors state that gas exchange was computed every ten seconds. How
was the final VO2 max value determined?
4. How was the cycling protocol determined?
5. How was exhaustion defined? Was maximal exhaustion also confirmed by the
presence of ACSM criteria for terminating a graded maximal exercise test?
Discussion
1. The authors should consider discussing the use of a cycle ergometer, and cite
this is a limitation to the study. It is however, comparable to the Aerobic Center
studies.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests' below
Reviewer's report
Title:Personality in women and associations with mortality A 40-year follow-up in
the Population Study of Women in Gothenburg
Version:2Date:12 November 2013
Reviewer: Daniel Mroczek
Reviewer's report:
The authors stated that no study of personality and mortality have used a follow
up of more than a decade. This is not true. There have been many that have
done 20-30 year follow ups and the Friedman studies have follwoups of more
than 70 decades.
The personality measures used (Murray) are not usual. Hardly anyone uses
these scales. This is both a strength and weakness of the study.
The authors appear to have entered all the personality variables into a single
model to predict mortality. This likely oversaturated the model and made very few
personality variables come out significnat. The Murray variables are likely highly
correlated, so it would be better to pick 3-4 theoretically relevant traits and use
them as predictors, rather than overload the model with a large number of
correlated variables.
Finally, the authors conclude personalty was not related to mortality but they did
find significant associations. Thus, the statement that tehy did not not find any
associations is very puzzling.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Not suitable for publication unless extensively edited
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests
Reviewer's report
Title:Personality in women and associations with mortality A 40-year follow-up in
the Population Study of Women in Gothenburg
Version:2Date:22 November 2013
Reviewer: Hajime Iwasa
Reviewer's report:
This is a brief report that addresses personality and mortality among middle-aged
women living in Sweden. The advantage of the present study is the high
participation rate and the very long time span of follow up. The manuscript was
simple and well written. However, the present version of this manuscript has
some weaknesses which should be overcome. Give further attention to the
issues below.
-Major Compulsory Revisions
#1
In the Statistical section, the authors wrote, when they examined a linear
association between personality and mortality, 'age at baseline was used as
covariate in all models'. I wonder they should use other covariates which include
marital status, socioeconomic group, education, alcohol, smoking, chronic
disease (if any), which have important roles for adjustments for the relationship
between personality and mortality.
#2
I could not understand fully the statistical methods to examine the relationship
between personality traits and mortality. I wonder whether the authors created
and used dummy variables or not, when they tested the relationship between
quartile of personality trait and mortality. They should clearly state this.
-Minor Essential Revisions
#3
In Figure 1 and 2, the authors should show what the vertical axis mean. And
then, if the axis mean proportion of survival, the value '120' is impossible.
-Discretionary Revisions
None.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: Yes, and I have assessed the statistics in my report.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests' below.
Reviewer's report
Title:Personality in women and associations with mortality A 40-year follow-up in
the Population Study of Women in Gothenburg
Version:3Date:4 March 2014
Reviewer: Hajime Iwasa
Reviewer's report:
I checked the response from the authors. I felt they approximately responded the
previous comments.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: Yes, but I do not feel adequately qualified to assess the
statistics.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests
Reviewer's report
Title:Agenda-setting for Canadian Caregivers: Using media analysis of Maternity
Leave Benefits to inform Compassionate Care Benefits
Version:1Date:18 November 2013
Reviewer: Sylvia Guendelman
Reviewer's report:
This policy paper explores how maternity leave benefits expanded in Canada
since its inception in 1971 to the present, and draws parallels that might help to
inform the expansion of the Compassionate Care Benefits program implemented
in 2004. The paper draws on content analysis of media articles using explicit
criteria and applies a specifi policy framework (Kingdon) to discuss the findings
about the developmental trajectory of these two programs.
Although the content describing the evolution of these programs is very
interesting, I am unsure as to what this study adds to what is already known
about the Canadian MLP. It would be important and most helpful if the authors
could link developmental changes in the program with actual changes in uptake
of leave by both mothers and fathers in response to the programmatic changes..
It is also unclear how the recommendations provided were derived from the
content analysis. The authors recognize that they selected very specific and
limited media for their review of the MLP. For instance the MLB content analysis
is solely based on the Globe and Mail reviews, using maternity leave, not
paternity leave as a key search word. Furthermore this newspaper mainly
covered Ontario and Quebec while omitting coverage of other provinces.
The authors need to clarify what the recommendations are meant to address.
Level of interest: An article of limited interest
Quality of written English: Needs some language corrections before being
published
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests
Reviewer's report
Title:Agenda-setting for Canadian caregivers: using media analysis of the
Maternity Leave Benefit to inform the Compassionate Care Benefit
Version:2Date:5 February 2014
Reviewer: Sylvia Guendelman
Reviewer's report:
In this revised manuscript, the authors have addressed many of my
methodological concerns. Most are at least listed as caveats in the discussion
section.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I have no competing interests
Reviewer's report
Title:"We no longer live in the old days": A qualitative study on men's view on
masculinity and violence within marriage in rural java, Indonesia.
Version: 1Date:15 September 2013
Reviewer: Jane Chiu
Reviewer's report:
Minor essential revision
1. The research questions are well-described. The researcher used “focus group”
as data collection is appropriate in this study as well as inviting community
leaders as informants.
2. The methods appropriate and well-described in the context, however, it maybe
not provide sufficient details to replicate.
3. The results showed that sociopolitical transit is also predicted.
4. The moderators in this study were two males which was a proper arrangement
since this target population is basically male-dominant society. However, if
there’s a female moderator attended the discussion, the results were quite
different?
5. The recruited community leaders are all male and the researchers certainly
had their rationale to do so. However, if the information gathering can include
female participants (including the younger generation) will certainly balance the
data collection.
6. The researcher did not specify “whose” opinions were shown from different
focus groups and this probably may omit some important characteristics of the
participants (such as their age-cohort or if they’re actually involved in a marital
conflict), thus obscured the results. Even though the results showed that there
were 3 positions (e.g., traditionalist, pragmatist, and egalitarian) of masculinity, is
it possible due to the different generation/age-cohort?
7. The researchers suggested that public education on gender-equality is
necessary, so is female’s self-protection/prevention education.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Reviewer's report
Title:"We no longer live in the old days": A qualitative study on men's view on
masculinity and violence within marriage in rural java, Indonesia.
Version: 1Date:24 September 2013
Reviewer: Ravneet Kaur
Reviewer's report:
1. Major Compulsory Revisions
Describe the characteristics of participants in each FGD. Since the age ranged
from 20 to 71 years and participants included both married and unmarried men,
was homogeneity of the group ensured? The young men might have held back
their views in the presence of elderly men in the group.
The authors have come up with three constructions of masculinity – the
traditionalist, the pragmatist and the egalitarian. However, it has not been
discussed as to how the characteristic of men e.g age and education are related
to their views on masculinity and domestic violence. Are elderly men more
traditional in their approach or the younger one more of pragmatic or egalitarian
views? This paper does not give any information in this regard.
In section on conclusions and policy implications, conducting public lectures on
domestic violence does not appear to be a relevant strategy for such a
population . Also, please elaborate how can socialization of Indonesia DV Act be
done? The study population themselves feel that long term preventive efforts and
individual interventions are more important. Involving religious leaders is indeed
a valuable strategy.
Minor Essential Revisions
Avoid duplication of results in discussion.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
'I declare that I have no competing interests'
Reviewer's report
Title:"We no longer live in the old days": A qualitative study on men's view on
masculinity and violence within marriage in rural java, Indonesia.
Version: 1Date:8 October 2013
Reviewer: Koustuv Dalal
Reviewer's report:
Major Compulsory Revisions
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests
Reviewer's report
Title:"We no longer live in the old days": A qualitative study on men's view on
masculinity and violence within marriage in rural java, Indonesia.
Version:3Date:4 February 2014
Reviewer: Ravneet Kaur
Reviewer's report:
Most of the points raised have been addressed. The preventive measures
utilizing local folk arts, formulation and implementation of women's safety plans
and involvement of religious leaders have been well described. The paper may
be considered for publication in its present form..
Just a comment on the FGDs:
The purpose of having a homogenous group is to ensure the quality of FGDs.
Since the purpose of qualitative methods is to include information rich sources,
homogeneity ensures optimum collection of information. In order to get wide and
rich information, one group having different age groups and socio economic
strata cannot be constituted. In order to get wide information from different
groups, FGDs should be conducted in different groups, each group homogenous
in terms of age or SES etc.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
'I declare that I have no competing interests'
Reviewer's report
Title:"We no longer live in the old days": A qualitative study on men's view on
masculinity and violence within marriage in rural java, Indonesia.
Version:3Date:8 February 2014
Reviewer: Jane Chiu
Reviewer's report:
1. The authors have responsiblely answered the questions I raised in the last
review and it's quite appropriate.
2. Since the authors also added some necessary data and explanation to clarify
my doubts or concerns, I am OK with the revised manuscript.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interest.
Reviewer's report
Title:"We no longer live in the old days": A qualitative study on men's view on
masculinity and violence within marriage in rural java, Indonesia.
Version:3Date:1 March 2014
Reviewer: Koustuv Dalal
Reviewer's report:
Accept
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests