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Media Relations

Customized Health Education Not Always Necessary

eMaxHealth.com
April 15, 2008

New research adds to evidence that health officials do not always need to customize educational materials for all patients about the screening tests they should take. The individualized booklets were better at motivating colon cancer screening among certain subgroups, but the generic brochure held its own overall, said study lead author Susan Rawl, an associate professor at the Indiana University School of Nursing.

Read the entire article at: http://www.emaxhealth.com/34/21683.html

Learn more about the Indiana University School of Nursing at: http://www.nursing.iupui.edu/

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