Journal of Cardiac Failure
Volume 15, Issue 7 , Pages 572-579 , September 2009

Anxiety and Depression in Ethnic Minorities With Chronic Heart Failure

  • Lorraine S. Evangelista, RN, PhD

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Lorraine S. Evangelista, RN, PhD, School of Nursing, University of California, Los Angeles, 700 Tiverton Ave, Factor 4-258, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6918. Tel: (310) 825-8609; Fax: (310) 794-7482.
    • ,
  • Alvina Ter-Galstanyan, MPh

      Affiliations

    • School of Public Health, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
    • ,
  • Samira Moughrabi, RN, PhD

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
    • ,
  • Debra K. Moser, RN, DNSc

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

Received 2 February 2009 ,Revised 9 March 2009 ,Accepted 20 March 2009.

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 Funded by American Heart Association Western Division (NCR, 133-09, PI, K. Dracup) and the University of California School of Nursing Intramural Research Grant; supported, in part, by Center grant, 1P20NR010679 from NIH, National Institute of Nursing Research.

 Lorraine S. Evangelista received support from the University of California, Los Angeles, Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research/Center for Health Improvement of Minority Elderly (RCMAR/CHIME) under NIH/NIA Grant P30-AG02-1684, and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute On Aging or the National Institutes of Health.

 The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Nursing Research or the National Institutes of Health.

PII: S1071-9164(09)00097-9

doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2009.03.005

Journal of Cardiac Failure
Volume 15, Issue 7 , Pages 572-579 , September 2009

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