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Linköping University Medical Dissertations No. 1279
Department of Health and Science
Errata
Assessing Symptom Burden and Health-Related Quality of Life in
patients living with arrhythmia and ASTA – Arrhythmia-Specific
questionnaire in Tachycardia and Arrhythmia
Ulla Walfridsson
Framework
p. 20, Table 1, column 3, cell 5: Physical domain “11 items” should be “8 items”. p. 20 Table 1 column 5, cell 8: Erase “Criterion”
p. 20, Table 1 column 7, cell 8: Insert “Content: expert panel, interviews” and erase “Criterion”
p. 20, Table 1, footnote: QLAF= “Quality of Life Symptom Based Atrial Fibrillation” should be “Quality of Life questionnaire in Atrial Fibrillation”.
p. 21, paragraph 2, line 9: “(mental impact)” should have been “(physical impact)”. p. 36-37, Table 3, column 4, cell 3: Add Spearman’s correlations (rs).
p. 36-37, Table 3, footnote: “CFit= Close fit using” should be “CFit= Close fit using RMSEA”
p. 38, paragraph 3, line 1-2: ”Evaluations of the homogeneity between the items in respective scale were tested with Spearman’s correlations” should be “Evaluation of homogeneity between the items in the ASTA symptom burden scale were tested with Spearmans’s correlations (III).”
p. 41, paragraph 3, line 1-3: ”Homogeneity between the symptoms in the symptom burden scale and the items in the HRQOL total scale and the physical and mental subscales were evaluated with Spearman’s correlations due to the level of data (ordinal level). “ should be ”Homogeneity between the symptoms in the symptom burden scale were evaluated with Spearman’s correlations due to the level of data (ordinal level).“
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p. 46, paragraph 1, line 7-10: “Analyzing the symptoms separately in the symptom burden scale we found no gender differences in how often the symptoms were experienced but women reported higher grade of intensity of both worry and tiredness afterwards (F III).” should be “Analyzing the symptoms separately we found no gender differences in how often the symptoms were experienced but women reported higher grade of intensity of both worry and tiredness afterwards (F III).”
p. 54, paragraph 2, line 3: Erase “matched”. p. 54 paragraph 3, line 5: Erase “matched”
Manuscript III
p. 4, paragraph 1, line 16: Change “all the different forms” to “most the different forms”. Table 3, column 4, cell 13: Change “-0.01” to “0.02”
Manuscript IV
p. 16, paragraph 2, line 3: Change “increased the critical level” to “exceeded the critical level” p. 14, paragraph 2, line 12: Erase “sleep disturbances.”
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