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© 1980 British Society for Rheumatology

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A SURVEY OF PERSONAL AIDS SUPPLIED BY POST TO ARTHRITICS

M. ANNE CHAMBERLAIN and JANET STOWE

Rheumatism and Rehabilitation Research Unit, School of Medicine, University of Leeds 36 Clarendon Road Leeds 2

Correspondence to: Requests for reprints to Dr. M. A. Chamberlain.

A postal survey was mounted to investigate the use of the British Rheumatism and Arthritis Association's (B.R.A.A.) postal aids service. Of the 288 persons who ordered aids between January and July 1978, 85% responded to our questionnaire. They had ordered 573 aids from the B.R.A.A. and 446 from other sources.

Many simple aids were valuable and well used; several had faults, which in many cases could easily have been rectified if the manufacturers been aware of them.

Respondents appreciated the speedy provision of aids but many had problems which would have been better solved by attendance at an Aids Centre or Occupational Therapy Department. A quarter of the subjects were unaware that departments of social services provided aids.


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