The Impact of Family Factors on Children’s Mental Health during Home Quarantine: An Empirical Study in Northwest China
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Thank you for giving me the opportunity of reading the work “The Impact of Family Factors on Children's Mental Health during Home Quarantine: An Empirical Study in Northwest China”, it has been a very big pleasure to collaborate reviewing this manuscript. The topic of this paper is very interesting and it seems necessary to delve it. However, there are several questions to improve before to publish it. I would suggest some changes:
Title and abstract
- Your aims should be included at the beginning of the abstract (1 or 2 lines).
Introduction
- Dear colleagues, the structure of the introduction is clear, congratulations.
- When you explain the signs of psychological distress and mental health as a result of COVID-19, I consider necessary to add more data and references. I recommend you to add this paper recently published (https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18147422), which proposes COVID-19 pandemic as a PTSD.
Method and results
- More information about you sample is required. A summary table could be a good idea.
- Your research and results are fantastically developed and explained, congratulations.
Discussion
- In my humble opinion, it could be useful to describe in more detail the practical and theoretical implications of this research. Moreover, contextualize better the contribution within the framework of the issue would be advisable to explain why the contribution is useful and enrich the impact.
Conclusions
- It would be useful to do a concluding statement including the main findings.
Author Response
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Reviewer 2 Report
I have reviewed the paper title: The Impact of Family Factors on Children's Mental Health during Home Quarantine: An Empirical Study in Northwest China. The paper is reasonably written that are in line the scope of this journal issue in mental health area. It’s interesting valuable to research area. The relevant and contributes to existing literature. This article is strongly recommended for publication after incorporating certain changes. This article needs thorough proofreading. Overall quality of Language is good. Just minor grammatical mistakes are found. All tables and figures are relevant. Research Methodology has been well defined. All data are aligned to the findings of the research. This article is good attempt in the field of quantitative research and will be beneficial for future researchers.
Author Response
Point 1: This article needs thorough proofreading. Overall quality of Language is good. Just minor grammatical mistakes are found.
Response 1: Thank you for your criticism and suggestions. We have gone through the full text and revised some minor grammar problems.
Reviewer 3 Report
The authors have analyzed the factors affecting children's mental health during home quarantine from the perspective of family composition.
The topic is interesting.
I have some suggestions for authors to improve the manuscript.
Abstract
Lines 10-12: Replace with "This study aimed to analyze the factors affecting ..."
Key Words: Replace the following keywords "mental health; China" with keywords other than those in the title. It is a suggestion for optimizing the search for the manuscript through search engines.
Introduction
Please shorten the Introduction (No more than 1000 words.). It is too long and makes reading tiring. It doesn't have to be an exhaustive review of your overall topic. It should focus on the specific hypothesis/goal of your study. Detailed descriptions, speculations, and criticisms of particular studies must be included in the discussions.
Please indicate the introduction with the first paragraph only (if necessary add some subparagraphs). The second paragraph will indicate the Materials and Methods.
Materials and Methods
Line 282: Replace "Methods" with "Statistical analysis".
Also, the statistical significance has been set at what value of p? Please add.
The methodology used is correctly explained. The statistics used are appropriate.
Results
The Results have been correctly written.
Discussion
They are written clearly and to point.
The limitations are appropriate.
Conclusions
The take-home message and practical implications are clear.
Author Response
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Round 2
Reviewer 3 Report
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