Erratum to: Qual Life Res (2013) 22:1955–1964 DOI 10.1007/s11136-012-0337-x

The original publication of the article includes errors in the text and table. The contents are listed as follows:

Page 3, Right column, the sentence “Age group, ethnicity… and monthly income, respectively” should be “Age group, ethnicity, marital status, nature of employment, level of education and monthly income were entered as dummy variables. Malay, 18–24 years of age, public employment, primary education, being single and monthly income ≤MYR1000 were used as reference groups for ethnicity, age group, nature of employment, level of education, marital status and monthly income, respectively”.

Page 4, Right column, the sentence “Table 6 describes the factors... and with a postgraduate education (p < 0.001; OR 7.865)” should be “Table 6 describes the factors that were significantly associated with the physical health of TB family caregivers. In multivariate analysis, the factors associated with PCS scores less than the US general population norms were participants aged 75 years and above (p = 0.001; OR 32.847), widows (p = 0.013; OR 2.599) and with a postgraduate education (p < 0.001; OR 7.865)”.

Page 5, Right column, the sentence “Our study found that the MCS scores for healthy households of TB patients are low” should be “Our study found that the MCS scores for healthy households of TB patients were low”.

Page 6, Table 5 is replaced with the revised table which is given below:

Table 5 Mean (SD) scores of PCS and MCS for different variables
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