Article title: Assistive technologies in reducing caregiver burden among informal caregivers of older adults: A systematic review.
Authors: Keshini Madara Marasinghe
Journal: Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology
Bibliometrics: Volume 11, Number 05, pages 353–360
DOI: http://dx.doi.og/10.3109/17483107.2015.1087061
The article was incorrectly published with the below errors and this has now been corrected.
1. Page 357, 1st paragraph, 4th sentence under “Results”:
“Out of the nine studies, six studies were qualitative, two studies were quantitative (RCTs) and one study….”
Needs to be changed to:
“Out of the ten studies, seven studies were qualitative, two studies were quantitative (RCTs) and one study….”
2. Page 358, 1st paragraph, 1st sentence, under “Discussion”:
“Although review analysis found two opposing theories that AT decreased caregiver burden and AT could add to caregiver burden, only two studies [13,22] out of the nine studies suggested the theory that AT could add to caregiver burden.”
Needs to be changed to:
“Although review analysis found two opposing theories that AT decreased caregiver burden and AT could add to caregiver burden, only two studies [13,22] out of the ten studies suggested the theory that AT could add to caregiver burden.”
3. Figure 2. Schematic diagram of the literature search needs to be updated to the attached figure because there is an error in the numbers presented.
All these corrections are necessary to be corrected as they confuse the readers about the number of studies included in the study and the number of quantitative vs qualitative vs mixed methods in the study. Thank you very much. Please confirm receipt and kindly let me know of the decision.
