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Health Promotion Intervention for Women with MS

Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 14th, 1998

Project Number: 5 R01 HD35047-03. Grant Expires: This Fiscal Year. Principal Investigator: Stuifbergen, Alexa K. Performing Organization: University of Texas Austin. Abstract: "Women with the chronic disabling condition of multiple sclerosis (MS) continue to have health promotion needs even though they are experiencing a disease that has long-term consequences (USDHHS, 1991). In fact, the need for health promotion interventions may be accentuated for this group of individuals, whose quality of life and ability to continue to live independently are often heavily dependent on maintaining what DeJong and Batavia (1991) term their 'thinner...

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