JerMa88/BMC_Womens_Health_Peer_Reviews huggingface dataset:
Title: Spatial distribution and predictors of intimate partner violence among women in Nigeria:
Evidence from 2018 Demographic and Health Survey
Version: 1 Date: 24 Apr 2022
Reviewer:  Elisabete Pereira Silva
Reviewer's report:
Initially, I want to thank you for the invitation to review a manuscript, which addresses such an
important topic for public health: the violence against women by intimate partners.
The study presents the spatial distribution of intimate partner violence, which is a form little
explored in the literature. Overall, the article is well written and structured, but some adjustments
are needed.
ABSTRACT
It is well structured and written in a concise and easy-to-read form, highlighting the main points
of the article.
BACKGROUND
1st paragraph - 4th line: Although WHO is a well-known acronym, the term must first be spelled
out in full in order to be able to cite the acronym afterwards.
1st paragraph - 7th line: The authors put "...husbands or intimate male partner" as different. Even
in the tables, the term used is "Husbands/Partner's". It would be important for the authors to
place the definition for intimate partner used in the study.
3rd paragraph - 7th line: Review the way to cite the reference 16.
METHODS
They were described in a detailed and clear way.
RESULTS
The results are well organized and well presented in tables and figures.
However, I had doubts in Table 3. In my conception of analysis, the reference category of a
variable should be the best situation in which it is being studied. For example, for education, the
best situation is higher education. Therefore, I see no sense in the category “no education” being
the reference category. I suggest reviewing this categorization, as well as the variable “wealth
index” and “community socioeconomic status”.
DISCUSSION
It is well structured, dialogues the preliminary results with the previously published literature.
However, I have some questions:
1st paragraph: I suggest deepening the discussion on the type and role of conflict in the areas
cited for increasing women's susceptibility to IPV. It needs to be clearer if it is IPV or also
increased violence against women by other men without being partners.
2nd paragraph: Regarding education, based on the data presented, the statement that "...The
likelihood of experiencing IPV among women in Nigeria was high among women with primary
education..." is problematic. Women’s primary education had the lowest percentage in Table 1.
In Table 3, women's primary education was not statistically significant, and partners' primary
education was statistically significant. I suggest reviewing these variables and this discussion.
7th paragraph: Review the citation of references (Ahinkorah et al., 2018(Memiah et al., 2018).
The authors discuss the advantages and limitations of the study adequately.
REFERENCES
The references are well organized and updated.
Title: The Beneficial Effects of Square Dance on Musculoskeletal System in Early
Postmenopausal Chinese Women: A Cross-sectional Study.
Version: 0 Date: 15 Nov 2021
Reviewer's report:
This is a very interesting cross-sectional study on the "beneficial effects of square dance on the
musculoskeletal system of postmenopausal Chinese women". The results are very clear and this
type of intervention has the potential to benefit postmenopausal women.
I have some minor suggestions:
1. Change the term "low limb" to "lower limb";
2. Review the sentence: "A cross-sectional study was conducted to compare the postmenopausal
women who participant in square dance regularly and those who without this daily fitness in
terms of musculoskeletal system". The term "without" seems inappropriate;
3. Describe how the measurement of lower limb muscle strength was performed;
4. Tables 2 and 3 and the description of results are repetitive;
5. The number of decimal places is not standardized.
Title: The Beneficial Effects of Square Dance on Musculoskeletal System in Early
Postmenopausal Chinese Women: A Cross-sectional Study.
Version: 0 Date: 28 Dec 2021
Reviewer:  Thais Rasia Silva
Reviewer's report:
Review the manuscript entitled “The Beneficial Effects of Square Dance on Musculoskeletal
System in Early Postmenopausal Chinese Women: A Cross-sectional Study” for the BMC
Women's Health.
The present study has evaluated the associations between square dance and musculoskeletal
health in 152 postmenopausal Chinese women who were divided into square dance group and
sedentary group. Women in the square dance group had a higher lumbar spine and total hip
BMD, and higher low limb muscle strength, and longer single-stance time than the sedentary
group. Despite the interesting findings, it is necessary to include some revisions.
Major concerns:
1. I would like to suggest a review of the manuscript by a native English speaker.
2. Abstract: Since this is a cross-sectional study it is not possible to determine cause-effect,
therefore changes in the aim of the study are needed. “…the beneficial effects of square dance
on the musculoskeletal system of early postmenopausal Chinese women”.
3. Methods:
a. How the participants were invited to the study?
b. It is important to include the calculated sample size estimation. Moreover, some additional
association estimate measures are important to reinforce the test t results, adjusting for
confounding variables (e.g. age, diet, physical activity…).
Minor concerns:
4. Methods:
a. How was the calcium dietary intake assessed?
5. Results
a. In table 1, the unit of the calcium dietary intake used is mg/week, I suggest changing to mg/
day. Also, n each study could be included.
6. Discussion
a. It is important to mention previous studies evaluating the association between square dance
and skeletal muscle mass maintenance and to discuss if these previous findings were similar or
different from the present study.
Title: The Beneficial Effects of Square Dance on Musculoskeletal System in Early
Postmenopausal Chinese Women: A Cross-sectional Study.
Version: 2 Date: 07 Feb 2022
Reviewer:  Thais Rasia Silva
Reviewer's report:
Review the revised version of “The Beneficial Effects of Square Dance on Musculoskeletal
System in Early Postmenopausal Chinese Women: A Cross-sectional Study” for the BMC
Women's Health.
Minor concerns:
1. Methods:
a. Please include the description in the text of how the calcium dietary intake was assessed.
2. Results
a. It would be interesting to mention the regression analysis and its results in the text.
Title: Intimate partner violence and associated factors among reproductive age women in
Liberia: A cross-sectional study using a recent Liberian demographic and health survey
Version: 2 Date: 26 Mar 2022
Reviewer:  James Henry Obol
Reviewer's report:
How did you perform the multivariate logistic regression analysis? Please describe.
It is important to indicate that the table has continued to the next page. See table 1 & 3.
In table 2 under the variable list, the variables have no names but responses. What are these
variables?
Please, do not describe the results but state which variables are associated with increased or
decreased IPV. The results are in the table 3.
In the result section for multivariate analysis, what do you mean by "older age"?
In table 1, age of respondents were categorised using five years intervals into seven categories.
in table 3, you are presenting the age as a linear variable. Why?
In the discussion on page 17, you made a statement that "Older women were less likely to
experience intimate partner violence as compared with younger women". Where is the evidence?
Table 1 categorises age into seven groups of five years difference but table 3 shows results as
if age was analysed as a linear variable.
Your result shows that attaining primary education by the women was associated with IPV
and women who have attained secondary or higher education were not associated with IPV.
Please discuss this information in relation with husband education since women whose husbands
had higher education were less likely to experience IPV. While education can change people
attitudes, educated men generally marry educated women. Please assess for interactions and
confounding between education level of the women, husband, and attitudes towards wife
beating. Also assess if there is multicollinearity among these variables.
Did you check for the confounding or collinearity of women attitudes towards wife beating and
their husband alcohol drinking?
Please check on gramma and formatting like commas, full-stop etc.  I have made some editing
as in the manuscript.
Title: Intimate partner violence and associated factors among reproductive age women in
Liberia: A cross-sectional study using a recent Liberian demographic and health survey
Version: 5 Date: 10 May 2022
Reviewer:  James Henry Obol
Reviewer's report:
1. Please remove comas between the confidence interval and replace with a dash line to indicate
that it is a range of values. Do for all. Sorry for taking you back.
2. The statement "variables whose p-value was less than 0.05 were considered as statistically
insignificant" has been repeated two times under multivariate analysis. Remove the repetitions.
Title: Acceptability and impact of group interpersonal therapy (IPT-G) on Kenyan adolescent
mothers living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV): A qualitative analysis
Version: 3 Date: 27 Jun 2021
Reviewer's report:
This paper is well written. please note my suggestions below:
1. Spell out IPT-G at the beginning so that all the readers can understand from the start.
2. It was hard for me to read and interpret your data. I would suggest putting the participant
baseline characteristics and the outcomes, including pre-and-post IPT-G changes observed, were
presented in table format.
3. Clearly state the main outcome measures and how it was adapted to the study.
4. The data analysis is not clear. Clearly state the qualitative data method and technique used
in the study.  For example, was an analytic tool used? Data analysis method, Was a specific
process followed? how did the themes emerge? For example, see Braun & Clarke (2006), using
thematic analysis in psychology.
5. It would make it clearer to provide more details about the past studies utilizing  IPT-G and
show how this study would add to the current knowledge.
Title: Acceptability and impact of group interpersonal therapy (IPT-G) on Kenyan adolescent
mothers living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV): A qualitative analysis
Version: 10 Date: 07 Feb 2022
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for the opportunity to review the paper: Acceptability and impact of
group interpersonal therapy (IPT-G) on Kenyan adolescent mothers living with human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV): A qualitative analysis. This study seeks to assess the
acceptability and feasibility of Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT-G) delivered by CHWs
among depressed postpartum adolescents (PPAs) living with human immunodeficiency virus
(HIV).
Abstract: Well written. I recommend for the authors state the theoretical framework used in this
study in the abstract.
The rest of the paper is well written- no further comments.
Title: Acceptability and impact of group interpersonal therapy (IPT-G) on Kenyan adolescent
mothers living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV): A qualitative analysis
Version: 10 Date: 12 Mar 2022
Reviewer's report:
Acceptability and impact of group interpersonal therapy (IPT-G) on Kenyan adolescent mothers
living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV): A qualitative analysis
• The objectives do not point to the issue of task shifting yet this appears to be a key finding
from the research as emphasized in various sections of the manuscript.
• Methods: The design for the qualitative study is not clearly described and needs improvement.
I find the authors providing more description of the main interventional study but giving limited
details about the qualitative aspect yet it is the focus of the manuscript.
• It is not clear why some interviews were collected and not included in the study. Is there an
explanation for this?
• You may need to improve the synthesis/analytical description of the findings instead of using
many quotes (raw data).
• Findings under ‘opportunity’ are not well supported. Please include some verbatim quotes.
• Improve grammar throughout the paper.
Title: Acceptability and impact of group interpersonal therapy (IPT-G) on Kenyan adolescent
mothers living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV): A qualitative analysis
Version: 11 Date: 13 May 2022
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for allowing me to review the manuscript: Acceptability and impact of
group interpersonal therapy (IPT-G) on Kenyan adolescent mothers living with human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV): A qualitative analysis.
This paper adds knowledge to the field and especially for this substantial population.
The study aims to assess the acceptability and feasibility of Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy
(IPT-G) delivered by CHWs among depressed postpartum adolescents (PPAs) living with
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
The manuscript is well written, and the authors have addressed all reviewer comments.  No
further comments.
Title: Understanding the factors associated with married women’s attitudes towards wife-
beating in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys from 28
countries
Version: 1 Date: 14 Jul 2021
Reviewer:  Yohannes Dibaba Wado
Reviewer's report:
Thanks for the opportunity to review the manuscript “Understanding the factors associated
with married women’s attitudes towards wife beating in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from
Demographic and Health Surveys from 25 countries.
This is a very relevant study given that attitudes towards wife beating is one of the major
predictors of gender-based violence, which is pervasive in sub-Saharan Africa. It is a great
contribution to understanding the progress made in reversing the effect of social norms on gender
equality and health. Below I list some comments and concerns;
1. Authors did not explain why they decided to use a different definition for measuring women
rejection/ acceptance of wife beating.  While the DHS defines it as the percentage of women
who agree with at least one specified reason, the authors of this paper used a different definition
‘percentage of women who agreed to all the five issues considered as agreeing with wife
beating’. This difference in definition will lead to different prevalence estimates, which may
confuse users of DHS data and the readers of this paper. Please justify why you choose to define
differently and the implications on prevalence data
2. DHS data has weight variables in each country’s data to adjust for non-response and
population size. Please indicate ( in the methods section) which weight was used for this analysis
and how did authors take this variable in to account in the pooled statistical analysis?
3. Figure 2 requires a little formatting of the data labels; remove one decimal and the percentages
for clear presentation. You may delete the vertical lines as well.
4. Table 3 on bivariate and multivariate logistic regression results has a lot of information that
needs to be presented in more simple ways. For instance, there is aOR with their 95% confidence
intervals, P-values and again a key to the level of significance of p-values.  You may not need
all of these.
5. Some of the variables in table 3 are very much correlated. For instance, husband education
may be correlated with women’s education, and the various media sources added in to the
regression may be correlated. Please make sure this is taken care of in the analysis. For the media
access, researchers mostly use a single composite variable of exposure to media’, which you
may consider constructing one of this analysis.
6. The discussion sections did not draw out the implications of the study clearly, it focused on
interpretation and comparison of the results. Important to address the questions "So what does
this mean"? "what are the implications of the findings"?
7. There are some editorial and language errors that need proof reading and correction
Title: Understanding the factors associated with married women’s attitudes towards wife-
beating in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys from 28
countries
Version: 1 Date: 05 Apr 2022
Reviewer's report:
1. While creating the dependent variable author did not mention the reference from where they
have created the categories. What is the background for creating this variable in this way?
2. In the variable Muslim categories is very low. (Only 0.36). Please recategorize the data.
3. Figure 1 and Figure 2 are not clear to understand and there is no heading for these graphs.
4. The categories of women’s education is not well organized. Please organize the categories
with reference. Women’s working status would be a good variable rather than women's
occupation.
5. Media access variable could be addressed in this paper.
6. In the results section author did not interpret the results for table 3. Please interpret the results
and also justify why you use cOR and aOR?
Title: Understanding the factors associated with married women’s attitudes towards wife-
beating in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys from 28
countries
Version: 2 Date: 29 May 2022
Reviewer:  Yohannes Dibaba Wado
Reviewer's report:
The authors have fully addressed the comments and questions I had on the first draft. I therefore
recommend the manuscript be accepted for publication
Title: Fertility-sparing surgery in early-stage cervical cancer: laparoscopic vs. abdominal radical
trachelectomy
Version: 1 Date: 06 Oct 2021
Reviewer:  Jose Carugno
Reviewer's report:
I have reviewed the manuscript submitted for consideration for publication entitled
“Fertility-sparing surgery in early-stage cervical cancer: Laparoscopic vs abdominal radical
trachelectomy” I found the manuscript interesting and well written. However, I have the
following considerations.
The entire manuscript needs revision for better use of English grammar and medical wring style.
Abstract: Please clarify the pregnancy rate, number of patients who conceive vs infertile patients.
This paper has a very methodologic problem, the authors desire to compare obstetrical and
fertility outcomes, however, they failed to describe the factors that may have impacted the
pregnancy rate, such as the desire to conceive, use of assisted fertility among others. Without
a clear description of the protocol, it is difficult to compare the results between groups.
Moreover, the small sample size is likely the reason for not finding differences, since the study is
obviously underpowered to demonstrate statistical differences. I would recommend presenting
your experience as a case series instead of comparing both techniques.
Title: Fertility-sparing surgery in early-stage cervical cancer: laparoscopic vs. abdominal radical
trachelectomy
Version: 1 Date: 21 Nov 2021
Reviewer:  Mihai Capilna
Reviewer's report:
A relatively large cohort of radical trachelectomy patients from a single institution. A well
written retrospective study with a long follow-up. Please indicate in the revision your option for
NACT or  postoperative chemotherapy. Congratulations!
Title: Fertility-sparing surgery in early-stage cervical cancer: laparoscopic vs. abdominal radical
trachelectomy
Version: 1 Date: 20 Dec 2021
Reviewer's report:
Interesting study; I agree with the authors that one of the limitations is that this is a retrospective
study.
Please explain the criteria for selecting ART vs LRT in each patient; since there was no
randomization of patients, the selection of LRT or ART was based on the evaluation done by
the surgeons; was tumor size one of the reasons? Please evaluate the tumor size reported by the
pathologists for each treatment group. Also, please include this lack of randomization as one of
the biggest limitations of this study.
Background: it is mentioned that in China "9.89 thousand" women are diagnosed with cervical
cancer each year; this number seems to be small considering the size of the population of the
country; please confirm this data.
Line 253: it says "In most of studies on LRT, the number of recurrent case was #2  in each
reported article"; that number 2 does not have any meaning; do you mean 2%?
Title: Fertility-sparing surgery in early-stage cervical cancer: laparoscopic vs. abdominal radical
trachelectomy
Version: 2 Date: 29 Jan 2022
Reviewer:  Jose Carugno
Reviewer's report:
I congratulate the authors on addressing all the points raised by the reviewers. I would suggest
an additional review to check for English spelling (example: "Thousand" is not "thousands")
and for better use of Medical writing style. Other than that, I believe this article is acceptable
for publication.
Title: Fertility-sparing surgery in early-stage cervical cancer: laparoscopic vs. abdominal radical
trachelectomy
Version: 2 Date: 04 Feb 2022
Reviewer:  Mihai Capilna
Reviewer's report:
Please specify why did you choose a radical trachelectomy for a stage Ia1 cervical cancer without
lympho-vascular space invasion.
Please specify what was the reason for neoadjuvant and postoperative chemotherapy.
Please explain the reason for choosing ART or LRT.
Title: Fertility-sparing surgery in early-stage cervical cancer: laparoscopic vs. abdominal radical
trachelectomy
Version: 4 Date: 18 Apr 2022
Reviewer:  Mihai Capilna
Reviewer's report:
The 3 patients  who were diagnosed with stage IA1 without LVSI and were submitted first to
conization and later to RT had not an indication for RT. Consequently, the final results could be
biased and I suggest you to analyze the rest of the patients as a cohort for your study.
Also, the indication for neoadjuvant chemotherapy is extremely debatable  because a cervical
cancer do not progress in a few weeks. Also, the indication for postoperative chemotherapy
is totally different: for 2 patients because of risk factors after the Sedlis criteria, in one for a
stage IIIC disease (instead of radiotherapy) and for the 4th - for a recurrence (also instead of
radiotherapy).
Also, when you compare 2 procedures (ART vs. LRT) the criteria for choosing and comparing
one to the other must be clear. It is not at all the  same in your article. Another  cause for biases.