Critical Analysis of Effects of the Youth Health Application and Flipcharts on Adolescents' Knowledge about Early Marriage: A Quasi-Experiment Study

Letter to Editor: With great interest, I have read the research article titled “effects of the Youth health application and flipcharts on adolescents knowledge about early marriage: a quasi-experiment study” (1). I appreciate the efforts of the authors in conducting this study, but I have a few concerns. In the introduction section, although the study aim has been stated, the specific objectives of the study were missing. Aims and objectives are important aspects of any research and should be clearly stated. Moreover, in the methods section, the author stated that 60 eligible females had participated in the study and 30 females were allocated in the intervention group and 30 females were allocated in the control group; however, there is very much difference in the data given in table 1. They represented that 6 subjects in the intervention group and 12 subjects in the control group were male. This is a great doubt I came across, because if the study is on females only, then what is the need of mentioning male numbers in the characteristics of respondents? Furthermore, the data on other characteristics of research respondents mentioned in the table is not homogenous; there are many differences in the numbers (%) in both the intervention and control groups. Next, the sampling method adopted is confusing because the authors stated that females were selected through convenience sampling methods, but randomization was mentioned in the CONSORT flow diagram.