{"id":2131,"date":"2026-06-02T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/cmsc-2026-peer-support-app-may-boost-confidence-after-ms-diagnosis\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T12:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:00:20","slug":"cmsc-2026-peer-support-app-may-boost-confidence-after-ms-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/cmsc-2026-peer-support-app-may-boost-confidence-after-ms-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"CMSC 2026: Peer support app may boost confidence after MS diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/06\/02\/cmsc-2026-peer-support-app-aid-people-ms-diagnosis\/\" title=\"CMSC 2026: Peer support app may boost confidence after MS diagnosis\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/iStock-1189829753-800x489.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"A yellow arrow symbol on a blue background.\" style=\"display: block;margin: auto;margin-bottom: 15px;max-width: 100%\" data-wp-pid=\"162721\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An app-based, one-to-one peer support program from Shift.ms that connects people newly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) with someone more experienced may help them feel more confident in managing their condition, with self-reported psychological benefits for both people in the pairing. That&#8217;s according to five-year data from the program,\u00a0called the Buddy Network, which showed that [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/06\/02\/cmsc-2026-peer-support-app-aid-people-ms-diagnosis\/\">CMSC 2026: Peer support app may boost confidence after MS diagnosis<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\">Multiple Sclerosis News Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/06\/02\/cmsc-2026-peer-support-app-aid-people-ms-diagnosis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An app-based, one-to-one peer support program from Shift.ms that connects people newly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) with someone more experienced may help them feel more confident in managing their condition, with self-reported psychological benefits for both people in the pairing. That&#8217;s according to five-year&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,15,9,8,13,14,12,10],"class_list":["post-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multiple-sclerosis-research","tag-brain-repair","tag-marburg-type-ms","tag-ms","tag-multiple-sclerosis","tag-myelin","tag-neuroregeneration","tag-oligodendrocyte","tag-remyelination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}