Title: Level of women-friendly care provision among mothers in immediate post-partum period
at public hospitals of Southeast Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study  
Version: 4 Date: 26 Mar 2022
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for inviting me to review the manuscript entitled “Level of women-friendly care
provision among mothers in immediate post-delivery period at public hospitals of Southeast
Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study”, which might have an endeavor to tackle the poor quality of
MNCH. The manuscript was written in an intelligible and clear way. By saying this, I have tried
to forward the possible comments and suggestions on the following page.
Title page: change the word “immediate post-delivery period” by “Post-partum period”
Abstract section:
• The background section got lengthy with redundant ideas and try to resynthesize and write
it concisely.
• The recommendation “All staff should be cooperative to provide good women-friendly care
provision in health facilities” is not sounding. None of your findings tell us staff cooperativeness
is a factor for women-friendly care. So, your conclusion has to be in line with your findings
Background
• The whole background section talks about the quality of care and I couldn’t find out any
ststement that deals with your outcome of interest “women-friendly care provision among
mothers in immediate post-delivery period”. What is women-friendly care during the immediate
postpartum period?
• Most of the statements were dealing with mistreatment and abuse, which is the negative side
of your outcome of interest and this might urge you to convert the title to “ Mistreatment and
abuse during the immidiate post-partum period”
• Do the authors deal with the quality domain of WFC or the level of WFC during the PPP?
Methods and material
• In the “Study Population”, Line112 & 113 there is a statement “In this study, mothers with
severe complications of birth were excluded”. Are those complications from the maternal or
neonatal side? Or both? Make it cleare.
• In the  “Data collection tool and Data collection procedure,” the way of outcome variable
measurement was somehow vague. Line 138-138, “level of women-friendly care provision
experienced by mothers during facility childbirth with 21 criteria”. All those criteria were used
to measure the level of WFC throughout childbirth and were not limited to the immediate PPP.
And this makes your outcome of interest to shift to WFC during childbirth.
Result
• Well presented In an intelligible way.
Discussion
• The comparison of outcome variable should be with the confidence interval of the current study
vursus the previous one. For example, the study in Bahir Dar (57%) might be consistent with
the current finding if the authors' comparison was based upon the CI
• Beyond comparing and contrasting the findings, it would be better to show the public health
importance of the figure.
• “The possible reason for the discrepancies may be due to adherence to health facilities with
women-friendly care amenities and different characteristics of health care providers in these
different health facilities which affect the care provision”. In what mechanism did you assure
this, unless you are doing a qualitative aspect.
Conclusion
• Should be in line with the findings of the study, especially for the recommendation parts