This is a corrigendum providing missing ethical approval and informed consent details for a cross-sectional study on quality of life in heart failure patients.
Ethical compliance now verified for Bahrain HF QoL survey; leaves open prospective validation of severity and demographic associations.
It has come to the attention of the publisher that the article Ghuloom, A.M. and Sanad, H.M. (2023), “Perceived quality of life in patients with heart failure: a cross-sectional study among adults in Kingdom of Bahrain”, Arab Gulf Journal of Scientific Research, Vol. 41 No. 1, pp. 67-76. https://doi.org/10.1108/AGJSR-06-2022-0092, did not report the details of the ethics approval or informed consent for this research within the body of the manuscript. This research was approved by the Ethical Committee Board at the Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Bahrain (AURS/75/2021) on 1 March 2021, and by the Research Committee at the College of Health and Sport Sciences at the University of Bahrain (5/2020-21) on 10 February 2021. Further, written informed consent was obtained from all participants before taking part in the study. Participants were informed of the study's aims and the right to refuse participation or withdraw from the study at any time. The authors confirm that the study adheres to the relevant ethical guidelines for human subjects, and that the autonomy and confidentiality of the participants were maintained and respected throughout using a self-administered questionnaire as the primary data collection tool; the study did not make use of patient records or data from the hospital systems. The authors sincerely apologize for this mistake.
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