Reviewer's report
Title:A risk assessment instrument to identify ulcerative colitis patients at high
risk of non-adherence to aminosalicylate medication based on the Health Belief
Model: a cross-sectional study
Version:2Date:30 September 2014
Reviewer: Klaudia Farkas
Reviewer's report:
This is a well organized study by Kawakami et al performed on large IBD
population. With the use of a multicenter cross-sectional study the authors
developed an assessment instrument to identify patients with ulcerative colitis at
high risk of non-adherence to aminosalicylates and to assess factors of
non-adherence based on the Health Belief Model (HBM).
Discretionary Revisions: Was the correlation between non-adherence and the
current disease activity and duration of UC examine? These information would
be interesting to know.
Level of interest: An article of outstanding merit and interest in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
No conflict of interest.
Reviewer's report
Title:A risk assessment instrument to identify ulcerative colitis patients at high
risk of non-adherence to aminosalicylate medication based on the Health Belief
Model: a cross-sectional study
Version:2Date:30 September 2014
Reviewer: Klaudia Farkas
Reviewer's report:
This is a well organized study by Kawakami et al performed on large IBD
population. With the use of a multicenter cross-sectional study the authors
developed an assessment instrument to identify patients with ulcerative colitis at
high risk of non-adherence to aminosalicylates and to assess factors of
non-adherence based on the Health Belief Model (HBM).
Discretionary Revisions: Was the correlation between non-adherence and the
current disease activity and duration of UC examine? These information would
be interesting to know.
Level of interest: An article of outstanding merit and interest in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
No conflict of interest.
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Reviewer's report
Title:A risk assessment instrument to identify ulcerative colitis patients at high
risk of non-adherence to aminosalicylate medication based on the Health Belief
Model: a cross-sectional study
Version:2Date:30 September 2014
Reviewer: Klaudia Farkas
Reviewer's report:
This is a well organized study by Kawakami et al performed on large IBD
population. With the use of a multicenter cross-sectional study the authors
developed an assessment instrument to identify patients with ulcerative colitis at
high risk of non-adherence to aminosalicylates and to assess factors of
non-adherence based on the Health Belief Model (HBM).
Discretionary Revisions: Was the correlation between non-adherence and the
current disease activity and duration of UC examine? These information would
be interesting to know.
Level of interest: An article of outstanding merit and interest in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
No conflict of interest.
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