Reviewer’ s report
Title: "The whole package deal": experiences of overweight/obese women living with Polycystic
Ovary Syndrome
Version: 0Date: 20 Feb 2019
Reviewer: Tehrani Fahimeh Ramezani
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opportunity to review this manuscript.I think the result section in abstract need to be made clearer.The author may wish to provide several references to substantiate to make the introduction moresubstantial. In line number 75 to 76 more evidence needs to describe" Women with PCOS are atsignificantly increased risk of obesity and overweight compared to age-matched controls"Please add more reason in end paragraph of introduction about why you perform this search.The objectives are not clearly defined.Please add reasons why you use the constant comparison?The qualitative method of this study need to describe with more details.Please mention age of participants in inclusion criteria such as women in reproductive age.Whose investigate the 2003 Rotterdam Criteria in participants?
Please add the interview questions or guide in method section.
Please describe more information about rigor in method section.In abstract section you write the women 18-45 years old but in line 167 …to 46 years old, please
correct it.Please mention more details about the demographic characteristic of participants (instead of "Mostof the women" please add the frequency or %)The result is ambiguous. The condense code and sub-themes is not mention.In line 344 please correct the writing error.thank you.
Are the methods appropriate and well described?
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