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  • Title: Compliancy in splint-wearing behaviour of patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
    Author: Moon MH, Moon BA, Black WA.
    Journal: N Z Med J; 1976 May 26; 83(564):360-5. PubMed ID: 1066564.
    Abstract:
    Forty-six patients with rheumatoid arthritis affecting their hands were questioned to establish whether or not they complied with the medical specialist's instructions about wearing splints. Only one-third of the patients appeared to comply. A high extraversion score (measured on the EPI questionnnaire) identified half of the patients who did not comply. All patients scored significantly lower then the population norm on the introversion-extraversion dimension, indicating that this dimension may be involved in the psychosomatic aspect of rheumatoid arthritis.
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