A Walking Education Program for Patients with Osteoarthritis of the Knee: Theory and Intervention Strategies

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This work was supported by NIH Multipurpose Arthritis Center Program grant no. 1 P60 AR38520-01A1, and in part by a predoctoral research fellowship grant to Dr. Kovar from the Arthritis Foundation. We thank Dr. Kate Long of the Stanford Arthritis Center, for providing numerous helpful suggestions m the early stages of developing this program; our colleagues at the Cornell Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases Center, Dr. Mary Charlson and Dr. Mark Kasper, for reading and commenting on several drafts of the manuscript; and Dr. Lawren Daltroy, of the Multipurpose Arthritis Center at the Bngham and Women's Hospital, and the anonymous reviewers, whose helpful comments and editorial guidance enabled us to improve the manuscript. Portions of this paper were presented at the Northeast Arthritis Health Professions Association, May 19, 1990, New York, NY, and the 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Public Health Education, October 5, 1990, New York, NY.