Reviewer’ s report
Title: Development and Validation of a Person-Centered Abortion Scale: The Experiences of Care
in Private Facilities in Kenya
Version: 2Date: 06 May 2020
Reviewer's report:
The study "Development and Validation of a Person-Centered Abortion Scale in Kenya" by
Sudhinaraset et al., has some strengths and limitations. This study is timely. However, themanuscript needs minor clarification. As such, in the comments to the authors, do have somesuggestions for its improvement.
Comments:
There are some challenges to the PCAC scale validation for abortion. A similar study should beconducted with women who received an abortion-related service from public services.
Lines 66-68: Rephrase this sentence. A suggestion is: Moreover, other scales were developing
using this framework, namely, (i) the person-centered maternity care scale, (ii) and person-centered family planning scale.
Line 96: "Steps" is in capital letter, why? Please correct it.Line 126: The authors should add the composition of the team with three researchers.Line 141: A full stop is missing at the end of the sentence.
Line 192: The authors should give some explanation relative to the high prevalence of women in
both surgical abortion and medication abortion with a college or university degree.
Are the methods appropriate and well described?
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YesDoes 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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Yes
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I recommend additional statistical reviewQuality of written English
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Acceptable
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