Author's response to reviews Title:Leveraging on public health nurses for disaster risk communication in Fukushima City: A qualitative analysis of nurses' written records of parenting counseling and peer discussions Authors:

MS ID: 5634590661024274 Original title: Bridging the gap between science and community in Fukushima City: A qualitative analysis of public health nurses' written records Revised title: Leveraging on public health nurses for disaster risk communication in Fukushima City: A qualitative analysis of nurses' written records of parent counseling and peer discussions Thank you very much for reviewing our manuscript. The two reviewers' comments were very helpful in improving the paper. We have listed and explained our responses in the attached file. Major revised parts (responding to review comments) are underlined in the text although other editorial changed are not. In this revised version, we have included more explanations on our study framework in the Introduction, sampling and analytical methods in the Methods, and interpretation of results on mothers' concerns in the Discussion. On the other hand, presentation of SCAT results from nurses' peer discussions in the Results and description of previous related studies in the Discussion were made much concise. Furthermore, the flow of the manuscript has been greatly improved through extensive editing by the third author, who is an experience medical researcher/editor and a native English speaker. We hope this revised manuscript is considered suitable for publication in BMC Health Services Research, and we look forward to receiving your reply. 1 MS ID: 5634590661024274 Original title: Bridging the gap between science and community in Fukushima City: A qualitative analysis of public health nurses' written records Revised title: Leveraging on public health nurses for disaster risk communication in Fukushima City: A qualitative analysis of nurses' written records of parent counseling and peer discussions Response to Reviewer 1's comments Major Compulsory Revisions 1. The question posed by the authors is well defined and is presented in both abstract and introduction. However, the manuscript title does not match well this question, as well as the data presented in the manuscript. I suggest the following title: Bridging the gap between science and community in Fukushima City: A qualitative analysis of mothers' and public health nurses' written records. A revision of the first part of the title (which is now too general) should be also considered, since the study is specifically focused on communication problems. Response: Thank you for pointing this out. We have revised the title to be " Leveraging on public health nurses for disaster risk communication in Fukushima City: A qualitative analysis of nurses' written records of parent counseling and peer …