Changing Perception of Nurses during COVID-19: A Comparative Study on Leadership Behaviors, Meaning of Job and Meaningful Work
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The authors in this study seek to empirically examine nurses' perceptions of leadership, job meaning and meaningful work in an extreme situation such as the COVID-19 epidemic. The study mentions filling a gap in the literature addressing the study of leadership in extreme situations, considering that these studies are generally conducted in war contexts.
Below I express a series of comments that attempt to enrich in a positive way the work done so far by the authors.
1 Line 34-35 "Turkey is number 8 in the increase in the number of new cases this week." In this line they make mention of "this week" however I consider that it should be oriented in a better way in time to the reader or contextualize this sentence a little more.
2 Line 35-36 "The mortality rate was 37.5 per 1 million people in the world, it was realized at 46 per 1 million people in Turkey." The idea is not entirely clear, perhaps the authors should consider phrasing it differently.
3 Line 37, although it is not the reference style used by the journal, the year is missing in the TMH Daily Reports citation.
4 Lines 38-48 provide a citation to strengthen the argument.
5 According to the instructions for authors in the sustainability journal, references should be listed as numbered (i.e., [1],[2].[3-5],etc) in order of appearance. Please see :
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/instructions
6 Lines 53-57 the idea is not very clear, please rephrase.
7 Lines 75-76 "According to the literature, extreme conditions related to behaviors remain a deficient phenomenon in organizational behavior" please add references to support the argument.
8 Lines 114 and 298, one period instead of two to end the sentence.
9 Lines 90-95. Complete with data on average age of women and also say how many women were married. Also specify the remaining percentage with respect to education. Finally the idea about 72% of the participants were on shift work and the remaining 28% were daytime workers. It is not very clear. Please illustrate to the reader what are the differences between daytime and shift at work.
10 Line 277 it is not clear what authors meant with “It is hard to breathe, hear, communicate, and to erase the term”. Specially with “to erase the term”.
11 Line 287 “Final sometimes motivates nurses but sometimes may not” . Authors should write “ The end sometimes motivates nurses but sometimes it may not”
12 Line 291, "in recent days" should avoid this type of terms, very vague idea in time scale, contextualize the reader more or place specific times.
13 Line 292 , add year to citation.
14 Perhaps Table 1 should be included in the results section and not in the methodology section.
15 Lines 350-368, this paragraph largely explains the Mann-Whitney U test for testing significant differences in mean values as a nonparametric statistical test. I believe that this detailed explanation should be incorporated in the methodology section and not in the results section.
16 Lines 386-387, please rephrase, I am not sure if the correct word is "contamination" ("The rapid contamination of the virus and the increasing number of patients and deaths worldwide may cause mental burden and anxiety").
17 Discussion Section should be called "Discussion and Conclusion".
18 Please add more recent citations as only: 7 of 63 citations are from 2015 onwards and 3 of 63 citations are from 2020 onwards.
19 In the list of references, please unify the style. It seems that you have used different styles.
20 Why haven't you done the study by gender? It would have been interesting to see the results for men and women. You can add this to the future research part that you already have in the discussion and conclusion.
21 Table 1. Normality test for which data?, Before or After COVID?, please specify that both populations have joined
22 Table 2 , consider adding the standard deviation.
23 Footnote in Table 22 , please incorporate the legend corresponding to JM, Maning of job, since it has been placed below and separately.
24 Please consider as complement to Table 2 some kind of chart or figure. I leave it for your consideration.
Author Response
In general, the desired content has been edited and added to the article.
Reviewer 2 Report
The abstract has been arranged according to scientific rules
problem phenomenon please highlight it more supported by the scale of the data you find
the method is good, it has explained the research design, please add related research samples, instruments and data analysis used. The results and discussion have been presented properly. conclusions must answer the research objectives
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Author Response
In general, the desired content has been edited and added to the article.
Reviewer 3 Report
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of extreme conditions, specifically the COVID-19 epidemic, by examining nurses' perceptions of authentic leadership, meaningful work, and job meaning and to compare this with the nurses' perceptions from before the pandemic. The study design is adequate, but there is still a need for improvement. For example:
How did you select the participants in hospitals?
Did you select the same hospitals in the first and second phases of the research?
Did all participants give written informed consent before data collection?
What other data you collected from the survey participants, could have been shown instead of Table 1 or in an additional table?
The cited references are not the most recent publications (within the last 5 years).
Author Response
In general, the desired content has been edited and added to the article.
Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear authors, I thank you for having taken into account most of the suggestions made.
I would also like to comment that for future occasions it is ideal that you indicate point by point how you have dealt with the observations.
Even if you have made the changes with track-changes, I recommend that you also answer how you have dealt with them and the number of lines in which you have dealt with the suggestions made.
Author Response
The desired content has been edited and added to the article.
Reviewer 3 Report
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Author Response
The desired content has been edited and added to the article.
