A Social Support Group Is Most Likely to Help

question 57

Multiple Choice

A social support group is most likely to help

• A) Fred, an insurance company executive who is recovering from a myocardial infarction (MI).
• B) Mar'a, a recent immigrant from the Philippines who suffers from rheumatoid arthritis.
• C) Sybil, a high-school dropout with three children who is recovering from a mastectomy.
• D) All of them, because support groups have shown efficacy for cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, and myocardial infarction.
• E) None of these people, as support groups are comforting but otherwise unhelpful.

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