Health-Related Quality of Life of Elderly Women with Fall Experiences
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
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Author Response
We appreciate your critical review of our work and your suggestions for improving the quality of our manuscript. Based on the comments, we have provided point-by-point responses and have made the associated modifications to the manuscript.
Thank you in advance for your time and attention.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Dear Authors,
Congratulations for the work done. However, there are improvements that must be made before your study is eligible for publication:
- The Introduction is too short. It should be expanded by developing aspects such as the deterioration of functionality in the geriatric population (both in Korea and in other countries, such as Spain, which is one of the countries with the longest life expectancy in the world; doi: 10.1080 / 02703181.2018.1449163).
- Reference should also be made to methods for early identification of balance impairment such as accelerometry (doi: 10.1080 / 21679169.2017.1347707 // 10.1080 / 21679169.2017.1347707). 2. The Discussion should also be slightly expanded by referring to these aspects.
Kind regards.
Author Response
We appreciate your critical review of our work and your suggestions for improving the quality of our manuscript. Based on the comments, we have provided point-by-point responses and have made the associated modifications to the manuscript.
Thank you in advance for your time and attention.
Author Response File: Author Response.docx
Reviewer 3 Report
In this paper, the authors aim to describe the health-related quality of life of elderly women with experience in fall treatment as well as to prepare basic data for the development of interventions to improve the quality of life for this group. The paper is easy to read and insightful.
Introduction
In the introduction I would add only a few references to underline what was done to assess fall risk (line 14), such as
Maranesi E., et al. The surface electromyographic evaluation of the Functional Reach in elderly subjects. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, 2016, 26, pp. 102–110
Maranesi E. et al. A statistical approach to discriminate between non-fallers, rare fallers and frequent fallers in older adults based on posturographic data. Clinical Biomechanics, 2016, 32, pp. 8–13
Or in diabetic patients (line 28), such as
Maranesi E. et al., Muscle activation patterns related to diabetic neuropathy in elderly subjects: A Functional Reach Test study. Clinical Biomechanics, 2016, 32, pp. 236–240
Materials and Methods
This session is well written and structured.
Results
Insert the meaning of the acronyms under each table.
Table 1 has some problems. In the first row (age), the sum of the subjects of the 3 classes is greater than the total (as well as the sum of the percentages is greater than 100%). The problem of the percentages is present also in the following lines. It is necessary to review the data shown in the Table 1.
Discussion
This session is well structured. I suggest you add a paragraph about the limitations of the study and possible future developments.
Author Response
We appreciate your critical review of our work and your suggestions for improving the quality of our manuscript. Based on the comments, we have provided point-by-point responses and have made the associated modifications to the manuscript.
Thank you in advance for your time and attention.
Author Response File: Author Response.docx
Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
I would like to thank the authors for their work in the modifications indicated in the first review.
In any case, I would like to make further suggestions to improve the manuscript:
In the description of the statistical analysis I should insist on specifying better which are the statistical tests performed in the comparisons between subjects and variables to establish or not differences and relationships (chi-square, t-student, ANOVA, ...).
In the description of results it is also important that we can know in the text, and in the tables (Table 1, Table 2, Table 3), each p-value to which test applied corresponds.
Author Response
We could see the improvement after revising the paper as you advised. Thank you for your valuable comments to improve our paper. Also, it cheered us up when you mentioned what we did.
We hope you are always healthy even in the COVID-19 era.
As you suggested, we have revised.
Author Response File: Author Response.docx
Reviewer 2 Report
Dear Authors,
Congratulations on the work done and the changes made to the text.
Kind regards
Author Response
We could see the improvement after revising the paper as you advised. Thank you for your valuable comments to improve our paper. Also, it cheered us up when you mentioned what we did.
We hope you are always healthy even in the COVID-19 era.
As you suggested, we have revised.
Author Response File: Author Response.docx
