Computer outreach project at MSU looking for rural women with chronic illnesses in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho and Wyoming.

Candidates are needed for the Fall 2004 Women to Women computer outreach program for rural women with chronic illnesses who live in rural Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho and Wyoming. Women, 35 to 65 years of age who live more than 25 miles outside a town of 12,500 or more, are eligible for the WTW project, sponsored by Montana State University-Bozeman College of Nursing.

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http://sidneyherald.com/articles/2004/03/04/news/homespun-lifestyles/hs03.txt

WTW is a project which conducts computer support groups and educational/evaluative guidance via personal computers and the World Wide Web for chronically ill, isolated rural women. The overall goal is to enhance the women’s potential to successfully adapt to their long-term illnesses even though they live where health information resources are limited and distances from health care providers are great. The program teaches chronically ill women the computer literacy skills necessary to find and discriminately evaluate Web site health information, provide health-related learning activities and expose them to the benefits of an online self-help computer support group.

Women who are interested in the project are encouraged to call toll free at 1-888-375-1317 at Montana State University College of Nursing, Bozeman, Montana or visit: http://healthinfo.montana.edu/msu/Clarann2.html