Psychosocial factors, quality of life, and psychological distress: Ethnic differences in patients with heart failure

Progress in Cardiovascular Nursing

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 131-140

  Bean, Melanie K ^a   Gibson, Douglas ^b   Flattery, Maureen ^a   Duncan, Angela ^a   Hess, Michael ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIGION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPIRITUALITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74349086284     PISSN: 08897204     EISSN: 17517117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7117.2009.00051.x     Document Type: Article

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