Reviewer's report
Title:Anxiety and depression in patients with gastrointestinal cancer: does
knowledge of cancer diagnosis matter?
Version: 2Date:23 June 2007
Reviewer: Alv Dahl
Reviewer's report:
General
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Major Compulsory Revisions (that the author must respond to before a decision
on publication can be reached)
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Minor Essential Revisions (such as missing labels on figures, or the wrong use of
a term, which the author can be trusted to correct)
The paper is considerably improved after the revision. I think the aims still should
be stated more explicitly: 1) anxiety and depression in gastrointestinal cancer
patients, and 2) the role of knowledge about the cancer diagnosis.
The paper now focus more on the cultural and resource situation of medical
services in the Middle East, and I think this aspects should be still more
emphasized.
It is still unclear if the HADS was given in an interview format or was based on
self-rating. Please clarify that.
Two different cut off levels of the HADS are applied, one for descriptive statistics
and one for the regression analyses. I would prefer that they simply stuck to the
last one.
Table 1 and 2 should be simplified without subgroups on age for example.
Instead a thrid table showing the results of the logistic regression analyses
should be introduced.
There seem to be a significant association between illiteracy and not knowing the
diagnosis. The relevance of level of education seem worthwhile to examine
further. should
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Discretionary Revisions (which the author can choose to ignore)
What next?: Accept after minor essential revisions
Level of interest: An article of limited interest
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests.
Reviewer's report
Title:Anxiety and depression in patients with gastrointestinal cancer: does
knowledge of cancer diagnosis matter?
Version: 2Date:23 June 2007
Reviewer: Alv Dahl
Reviewer's report:
General
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Major Compulsory Revisions (that the author must respond to before a decision
on publication can be reached)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Minor Essential Revisions (such as missing labels on figures, or the wrong use of
a term, which the author can be trusted to correct)
The paper is considerably improved after the revision. I think the aims still should
be stated more explicitly: 1) anxiety and depression in gastrointestinal cancer
patients, and 2) the role of knowledge about the cancer diagnosis.
The paper now focus more on the cultural and resource situation of medical
services in the Middle East, and I think this aspects should be still more
emphasized.
It is still unclear if the HADS was given in an interview format or was based on
self-rating. Please clarify that.
Two different cut off levels of the HADS are applied, one for descriptive statistics
and one for the regression analyses. I would prefer that they simply stuck to the
last one.
Table 1 and 2 should be simplified without subgroups on age for example.
Instead a thrid table showing the results of the logistic regression analyses
should be introduced.
There seem to be a significant association between illiteracy and not knowing the
diagnosis. The relevance of level of education seem worthwhile to examine
further. should
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Discretionary Revisions (which the author can choose to ignore)
What next?: Accept after minor essential revisions
Level of interest: An article of limited interest
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests.
Please review this paper.
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Reviewer's report
Title:Anxiety and depression in patients with gastrointestinal cancer: does
knowledge of cancer diagnosis matter?
Version: 2Date:23 June 2007
Reviewer: Alv Dahl
Reviewer's report:
General
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Major Compulsory Revisions (that the author must respond to before a decision
on publication can be reached)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Minor Essential Revisions (such as missing labels on figures, or the wrong use of
a term, which the author can be trusted to correct)
The paper is considerably improved after the revision. I think the aims still should
be stated more explicitly: 1) anxiety and depression in gastrointestinal cancer
patients, and 2) the role of knowledge about the cancer diagnosis.
The paper now focus more on the cultural and resource situation of medical
services in the Middle East, and I think this aspects should be still more
emphasized.
It is still unclear if the HADS was given in an interview format or was based on
self-rating. Please clarify that.
Two different cut off levels of the HADS are applied, one for descriptive statistics
and one for the regression analyses. I would prefer that they simply stuck to the
last one.
Table 1 and 2 should be simplified without subgroups on age for example.
Instead a thrid table showing the results of the logistic regression analyses
should be introduced.
There seem to be a significant association between illiteracy and not knowing the
diagnosis. The relevance of level of education seem worthwhile to examine
further. should
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Discretionary Revisions (which the author can choose to ignore)
What next?: Accept after minor essential revisions
Level of interest: An article of limited interest
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests.
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