Dear Editor,
Regarding the “Letter to the Editor” with the code e59537, Babakhanian and Zarghami about our published article entitled
“Effectiveness of Hope Therapy Protocol on Depression and Hope in Amphetamine Users”. The results of our review showed that the apparent discrepancy in some of the references was either due to the time of converting references from APA to Vancouver or in referees’ modifications to add or remove some parts of the original text. By moving a number, the entire reference section has been moved (1, 2). As we did not use the endnote software, we did not notice these errors in the final proofreading. The corrected cases are in the following:
In the methodology section:
The statistical population consisted of Amphetamines drugs consumers referring to day drug addiction treatment centers in Tehran city in 2014.
Correction formatted Tables 1 and 2 are:
| Age | Mean ± SD |
|---|---|
| 50 | 21.44 ± 2.45 |
Mean and Standard Deviation of Age
| Group | N | Mean ± SD | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression | Age | 25 | 16.36 ± 2.88 |
| Studies | 25 | 16.80 ± 2.53 | |
| Hope | Age | 25 | 20.27 ± 1.51 |
| Studies | 25 | 23.56 ± 1.57 |
Mean and Standard Deviation of Depression and Hope
As showed Table 1, the average ages of subjects were 21.44 and standard deviation was 2.45.
According to this table, the highest standard deviation and mean was related to depression in the experimental and hope in the control groups, respectively.
In the reference section, correction references are:
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