Title: Violence against infertile women in an Iranian setting
Version: 1 Date: 08 Jul 2022
Reviewer's report:
Dear author, please pay attention to the following points:
Introduction:
The introduction does not have a logical trend. The main problem is violence, not infertility.
Therefore, the statement of the problem should be written by explaining the frequency of
violence, the consequences of violence, and emphasizing these points on violence in infertile
women.
Some of the content is written displaced, for example, after the explanation of violence against
infertile women in the third paragraph, it goes back again and explains the cultural problems
of infertility.
It is better that the trend of the text be written step by step and by moving forward in the text,
the reason for doing the work should be written as clearly as possible.
Method:
In the method section, only five lines are dedicated to characteristics of the research participants,
and the rest is devoted to introducing the tool and method of validity and reliability.
There is need to more information about sampling method:
For example, authors wrote that the sampling method was continuous sampling method While
we have five types of sampling: Random, Systematic, Convenience, Cluster, and Stratified.
Please explain about the continuous sampling method.
On what basis is the sample size determined and how the analysis has been done after the
sampling.
In a study entitled:
Amiri-Farahani L, Shahbazi Sighaldeh S, Allahqoli L, Ranjbar F, Rouzafzoon M, Gharacheh
M. Psychometric properties of Persian version of the infertile women's exposure to
violence determination scale (IWEVDS). Hum Fertil (Camb). 2022 Jan 5:1-9. doi:
10.1080/14647273.2021.2021592. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34986755.
The sample size is the same with above mentioned article and what is the difference between
your study and this study?
It is necessary to display the frequency of violence and its components in a table, and in the
results please first explain these frequencies.
Please explain the cut-off score of the questionnaire and each component.
The type of violence should be stated.
The frequency of primary and secondary infertility should also be determined.
Explain the type of statistical test used for each of the specifications
Please enter full logistics table information
Discussion:
At the beginning of discussion, it was written that infertility can be the cause of violence, since
only the society under investigation is infertile and fertile women were not included in this
investigation, therefore, this statement should be revised.
The instrument used in reference 22 was not "IWEVDS" and was self-made, and these scores
are not comparable.
First of all, the type of violence in the society of infertile women has not been discussed. Does
it mean physical violence? Verbal? Financial? Psychological and.... Second, the components of
the questionnaire and the cause of the result have not been discussed.
Since no comparison was made between infertile and fertile women, authors cannot speak
definitively about the effect of childlessness on infertility. Nowadays, many couples decide not
to have children or have only one child.
In general, discussion needs to be rewritten.