Reviewer’ s report
Title: ASSESSMENT OF INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE ABUSE RATINGS BY
RECENTLY ABUSED AND NEVER ABUSED WOMEN
Version: 1Date: 04 Dec 2019
Reviewer: Amornrat Saito
Reviewer's report:
Congratulations on this manuscript, which was interesting. My overall feedback is outlined below
Back ground- it would be good to add more information about why rating of IPV is important andhow this impact underserved populations (Lines 107-8)Methods-No clear description of study materials. It would be useful to add information about the IPVratings - Was the rating measure developed by the researchers? how many questions were they?etc-Data collection was a bit unclear. How many times the data were collected? Line 148-9 stated thatconsents were sought twice from the participants. Line 145-6 mentioned semi-structure interviewand follow-up (does this mean after they were screened using the AAS, they were theninterviewed (or surveyed) at a 3-month follow-up? Steps for data collection needs to be clearer.Line 126- where did the study take place (e.g. city/ country)Line 128- women were interviewed but on line. 144 were surveyed. Could you please clarify?.Line 130- any inclusion criteria related to age?Line 154-155- how many women were surveyed via telephone? In person?Lines 155 & 175- would suggest using non-abused women instead of 'controls"
Line 155 what are the types of abuse? How was the instrument developed/ obtained? What were
the reliability of the ratings?Line 161- why the Mann Whitney U test was used?
Results
Would be good to include information on who screened the participants? (Line 169)Line 174- please clarify if this study was a longitudinal or cross-sectional- information wascontradicting -lines 75 and 174.lines 177-8 numbers did not add up correctlyLine 178- suggest using" never-abused women instead of "control group" as this study was not anintervention study.-Clearer information required on how 30 recently abused women and 32 women who were neverabused were obtained and the definition of recently abused.Line 179- 0% other may not need to be reported.Line 181- women universally rated most abused types as severe..- did this refer to women whoparticipated in this study? it would be clearer to state so and indicate the percentageTable 1- were all data presented in Table 1? or were only the ratings that women rated from 50 ormore?
Discussion
Some good discussion but would be good to also discuss the implications of the findings in
context of existing research and how the results of this study be used by clinicians.ReferencesPlease review the journal requirements related to reference e.g. Line 362.. suggest using 'Access 5Mar 2019'
Are the methods appropriate and well described?
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No
Does the work include the necessary controls?
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Unable to assessAre the conclusions drawn adequately supported by the data shown?
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YesAre you able to assess any statistics in the manuscript or would you recommend an
additional statistical review?If an additional statistical review is recommended, please specify what aspects require furtherassessment in your comments to the editors.
I recommend additional statistical review
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