Psychosocial Wellbeing among Patients with Breast Cancer during COVID-19

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report (Previous Reviewer 2)

Dear Authors, my comments in the first round has been addressed satisfactorily. Regards.

This manuscript is a resubmission of an earlier submission. The following is a list of the peer review reports and author responses from that submission.

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Based on several metrics and models for measuring psychosocial well-being, the study evaluated these parameters among patients with breast cancer during COVID-19.

 

Regarding patient recruitment, although Invitae clarifies that access to patient data is authorized by the patients themselves, was the study approved by an ethics committee? The data extracted are not from the diagnosis of breast cancer, but a new exploration/research was carried out.

 

Figure 1 - The authors can provide the statistical value of the comparison between groups.

 

Author Response

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Reviewer 2 Report

Dear Authors;  I found this paper an interesting investigation on the  Psychosocial Wellbeing Among Patients with Breast Cancer 2 During COVID-19. Its current presentation status is 3 degrees below journal standards and needs serious extra work . Regards. P.S.

[1] Writing:

1-1 Make sure references are in MDPI format. For example, article years are in bold, etc.

1-2 Add the list of used abbreviation in the manuscript with their expansion at then end right before reference section. 

1-3 Missing Study outline for the reader: Add it in line 90 in a paragraph of 3-4 sentences

1-4 Discussion: Its hard to read it. Break it down into three subsections to smooth the reading flow:  4.1. Summary & Contributions; 4.2. Limitations and Strengths; 4.3. Future Work

1-5 Missing 4.3. Future Work paragraph: add it in 5-7 sentences and give few future work directions. 

[2] Statistical:

2-1 Survey reliability and validity indexes: Cronbach alpha and others: report them.

2-2 Add US map in Figure.1. in section and with point scale show the reader how many sample data chosen from each state.   Example map (map #1): https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapping-population-density-dot-town/

2-3 Missing MLR GLM model Table: Where is it ? This is the key part of the manuscript. Report its Table in section 3.4 .

2-4  Reported Correlation statistics in section 3.4 is inappropriate . Correlation statistics is descriptive statistics and needs to be moved to section 3.1 second paragraph. 

2-5 Add a plot for your MVL GLM model and discuss the trends in terms of the age and key categorical variables legend. See this example (Figure 1-4) to get the idea:   http://www.cookbook-r.com/Graphs/Plotting_means_and_error_bars_(ggplot2)/ 

 

 

 

 

 

Author Response

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