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What Women Want To Know: Assessing The Value, Relevance, And Efficacy Of A Self-Management Intervention For Rural Women With Coronary Heart Disease, Holly Evans Madison
What Women Want To Know: Assessing The Value, Relevance, And Efficacy Of A Self-Management Intervention For Rural Women With Coronary Heart Disease, Holly Evans Madison
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Background: Women have experienced increased mortality from coronary heart disease over the last two decades, while men‘s rate has declined. This suggests that current treatment and prevention strategies are less effective for women. Furthermore, since most women don‘t participate in cardiac rehabilitation, alternatives to these programs must be explored. Purpose: This study sought to refine an intervention for rural women with coronary heart disease designed to promote self-management and provide pilot data evaluating the efficacy of the intervention. Design and Methods: The study design was mixed methods. Focused qualitative interviews provided data regarding the self-management program. In-depth interviews determined the …
A Stitch In Time: The Needlework Of Aging Women In Antebellum America, Aimee E. Newell
A Stitch In Time: The Needlework Of Aging Women In Antebellum America, Aimee E. Newell
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In October 1852, Amy Fiske (1785-1859) of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, stitched a sampler. But she was not a schoolgirl making a sampler to learn her letters. Instead, as she explained: “The above is what I have taken from my sampler that I wrought when I was nine years old. It was w[rough]t on fine cloth it tattered to pieces. My age at this time is 66 years.” Drawing from 167 examples of decorative needlework – primarily samplers and quilts from 114 collections across the United States – made by individual women aged forty years and over between 1820 and 1860, this …