Title: The Effect of Benson Relaxation Technique on the Severity of Symptoms and Quality of
Life in Children with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS): A Quasi-experimental Study
Version: 6 Date: 02 Oct 2022
Reviewer:  Christopher Radziwon
Reviewer's report:
This is an extremely interesting manuscript investigating the possible benefits of brief relaxation
training on symptom severity and quality of life in children with irritable bowel syndrome. This
is a potentially beneficial non-drug treatment to help children manage a disorder that has a
significant disease burden on patient quality of life and distress.
I would to thank the authors for thoughtfully resoonding to reviewer comments.
Please consider the following comments and suggestions.
I know this was briefly addressed in the introduction, but could the authors provide any
differences in outcomes between those participants who were inpatient vs outpatient or those that
were inpatient and released.  I wonder if this there could be any differences between these groups.
Also did the authors have any way to assess how much practice the participants completed. I
wonder if those participants completed more practice if they were inpatient.
On page 9, can the authors clarify which are the “annoying” symptoms.
Please make sure that reference 17 on page 10 is accurate.
Title: The Effect of Benson Relaxation Technique on the Severity of Symptoms and Quality of
Life in Children with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS): A Quasi-experimental Study
Version: 6 Date: 02 Oct 2022
Reviewer:  Christopher Radziwon
Reviewer's report:
This is an extremely interesting manuscript investigating the possible benefits of brief relaxation
training on symptom severity and quality of life in children with irritable bowel syndrome. This
is a potentially beneficial non-drug treatment to help children manage a disorder that has a
significant disease burden on patient quality of life and distress.
I would to thank the authors for thoughtfully resoonding to reviewer comments.
Please consider the following comments and suggestions.
I know this was briefly addressed in the introduction, but could the authors provide any
differences in outcomes between those participants who were inpatient vs outpatient or those that
were inpatient and released.  I wonder if this there could be any differences between these groups.
Also did the authors have any way to assess how much practice the participants completed. I
wonder if those participants completed more practice if they were inpatient.
On page 9, can the authors clarify which are the “annoying” symptoms.
Please make sure that reference 17 on page 10 is accurate.
Please review this paper.
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Title: The Effect of Benson Relaxation Technique on the Severity of Symptoms and Quality of
Life in Children with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS): A Quasi-experimental Study
Version: 6 Date: 02 Oct 2022
Reviewer:  Christopher Radziwon
Reviewer's report:
This is an extremely interesting manuscript investigating the possible benefits of brief relaxation
training on symptom severity and quality of life in children with irritable bowel syndrome. This
is a potentially beneficial non-drug treatment to help children manage a disorder that has a
significant disease burden on patient quality of life and distress.
I would to thank the authors for thoughtfully resoonding to reviewer comments.
Please consider the following comments and suggestions.
I know this was briefly addressed in the introduction, but could the authors provide any
differences in outcomes between those participants who were inpatient vs outpatient or those that
were inpatient and released.  I wonder if this there could be any differences between these groups.
Also did the authors have any way to assess how much practice the participants completed. I
wonder if those participants completed more practice if they were inpatient.
On page 9, can the authors clarify which are the “annoying” symptoms.
Please make sure that reference 17 on page 10 is accurate.
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