Title: Design and Evaluation of a Colon Cancer Mobile Application
Version: 2 Date: 14 Apr 2024
Reviewer's report:
Dear authors, the manuscript entitled "Design and Evaluation of a Colon Cancer Mobile
Application" investigates the impacting topic of CRC screening awareness in the general
population. I think the efforts made to develop the app and test it are appreciable. However,
some major points need to be addressed:
- Introduction: at the end of the section the aim is not clear and should be reformulated (try to
find a more specific way to explain your research)
- Methods:
1) How was the population selected? Did you involve patients in screening age?
2) How was self-assessment awareness evaluated? Was it done through a validated
questionnaire?
3) What was the primary outcome of the study?
- Results:
1) please report p-values (not just > or < 0.05)
2) Is the distribution of your results normal? How have you used the Mann-Whitney U test for
dichotomous variables? Please provide a more specific explanation of the statistical analysis.
3) Have you performed an analysis based on instruction level and/or occupation? The data are
present in the dataset, but not in the paper or tables.
4) Is the distribution of age normal? If so, did you include also patients in their thirties? I think
the application is not intended for young people.
Regards
Title: Design and Evaluation of a Colon Cancer Mobile Application
Version: 2 Date: 14 Apr 2024
Reviewer's report:
Dear authors, the manuscript entitled "Design and Evaluation of a Colon Cancer Mobile
Application" investigates the impacting topic of CRC screening awareness in the general
population. I think the efforts made to develop the app and test it are appreciable. However,
some major points need to be addressed:
- Introduction: at the end of the section the aim is not clear and should be reformulated (try to
find a more specific way to explain your research)
- Methods:
1) How was the population selected? Did you involve patients in screening age?
2) How was self-assessment awareness evaluated? Was it done through a validated
questionnaire?
3) What was the primary outcome of the study?
- Results:
1) please report p-values (not just > or < 0.05)
2) Is the distribution of your results normal? How have you used the Mann-Whitney U test for
dichotomous variables? Please provide a more specific explanation of the statistical analysis.
3) Have you performed an analysis based on instruction level and/or occupation? The data are
present in the dataset, but not in the paper or tables.
4) Is the distribution of age normal? If so, did you include also patients in their thirties? I think
the application is not intended for young people.
Regards
Please review this paper.
user
Title: Design and Evaluation of a Colon Cancer Mobile Application
Version: 2 Date: 14 Apr 2024
Reviewer's report:
Dear authors, the manuscript entitled "Design and Evaluation of a Colon Cancer Mobile
Application" investigates the impacting topic of CRC screening awareness in the general
population. I think the efforts made to develop the app and test it are appreciable. However,
some major points need to be addressed:
- Introduction: at the end of the section the aim is not clear and should be reformulated (try to
find a more specific way to explain your research)
- Methods:
1) How was the population selected? Did you involve patients in screening age?
2) How was self-assessment awareness evaluated? Was it done through a validated
questionnaire?
3) What was the primary outcome of the study?
- Results:
1) please report p-values (not just > or < 0.05)
2) Is the distribution of your results normal? How have you used the Mann-Whitney U test for
dichotomous variables? Please provide a more specific explanation of the statistical analysis.
3) Have you performed an analysis based on instruction level and/or occupation? The data are
present in the dataset, but not in the paper or tables.
4) Is the distribution of age normal? If so, did you include also patients in their thirties? I think
the application is not intended for young people.
Regards
assistant