<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v2.0 20040830//EN" "journalpublishing.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="2.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="reviewer-report"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">JMIRx Med</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">xmed</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="index">34</journal-id><journal-title>JMIRx Med</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title>JMIRx Med</abbrev-journal-title><issn pub-type="epub">2563-6316</issn></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">58361</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2196/58361</article-id><title-group><article-title>Peer Review of &#x201C;Eye Care Service Use and Associated Health-Seeking Behaviors Among Malawian Adults: Secondary Analysis of the Malawi Fifth Integrated Household Survey 2019-2020&#x201D;</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><collab>Anonymous</collab></contrib></contrib-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="editor"><name name-style="western"><surname>Meinert</surname><given-names>Edward</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2024</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>9</day><month>4</month><year>2024</year></pub-date><volume>5</volume><elocation-id>e58361</elocation-id><history><date date-type="received"><day>13</day><month>03</month><year>2024</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>13</day><month>03</month><year>2024</year></date></history><copyright-statement>&#x00A9; Anonymous. Originally published in JMIRx Med (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://med.jmirx.org">https://med.jmirx.org</ext-link>), 9.4.2024. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2024</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link>), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIRx Med, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://med.jmirx.org/">https://med.jmirx.org/</ext-link>, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.</p></license><self-uri xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="https://xmed.jmir.org/2024/1/e58361"/><related-article related-article-type="companion" ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.2196/44381" xlink:title="Preprint (JMIR Preprints)" xlink:type="simple">http://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/44381</related-article><related-article related-article-type="companion" ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.2196/57620" xlink:title="Authors&#x2019; Response to Peer-Review Reports" xlink:type="simple">https://med.jmirx.org/2024/1/e57620</related-article><related-article related-article-type="companion" ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.2196/44381" xlink:title="Published Article" xlink:type="simple">https://med.jmirx.org/2024/1/e44381</related-article><kwd-group><kwd>access to health</kwd><kwd>health service utilization</kwd><kwd>eye care use</kwd><kwd>health-seeking behavior</kwd><kwd>sociodemographic determinant</kwd><kwd>visual impairment</kwd><kwd>social support</kwd><kwd>women empowerment</kwd><kwd>education</kwd><kwd>eye care</kwd><kwd>pediatric</kwd><kwd>eye</kwd><kwd>ophthalmology</kwd><kwd>visual</kwd><kwd>ECU</kwd><kwd>eye service</kwd><kwd>utilization</kwd><kwd>Malawi</kwd><kwd>empowerment</kwd><kwd>health service use</kwd><kwd>use</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><p><italic>This is the peer-review report for &#x201C;Eye Care Service Use and Associated Health-Seeking Behaviors Among Malawian Adults: Secondary Analysis of the Malawi Fifth Integrated Household Survey 2019-2020.&#x201D;</italic></p><sec id="s2"><title>Round 1 Review</title><p>Potentially an interesting paper [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>], but more details are needed in the methods to enable the reader to understand the results.</p><p>The English is not good throughout the document, and the writing could be much more succinct and precise.</p></sec></body><back><fn-group><fn fn-type="conflict"><p>None declared.</p></fn></fn-group><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="ref1"><label>1</label><nlm-citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name name-style="western"><surname>Mzumara</surname><given-names>T</given-names></name><name name-style="western"><surname>Kantaris</surname><given-names>M</given-names></name><name name-style="western"><surname>Afonne</surname><given-names>J</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Eye care service use and associated health-seeking behaviors among Malawian adults: secondary analysis of the Malawi Fifth Integrated Household Survey 2019-2020</article-title><source>JMIRx Med</source><year>2024</year><volume>5</volume><fpage>e44381</fpage><pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2196/44381</pub-id></nlm-citation></ref></ref-list></back></article>