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Older Americans Resources and Services (OARS) Multidimensional functional assessment (OMFAQ)
  • Basic Information
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  • Domains
  • Psychometrics

Basic Information

Abbreviated name
OMFAQ
Full name
Older Americans Resources and Services (OARS) Multidimensional functional assessment (OMFAQ)
Items ?
The number of questions in the survey
120
Short description
The Older Americans Resources and Services (OARS) methodology was designed to assess functional capacity in five dimensions (social resources, economic resources, mental health, physical health, and activities of daily living) and to measure use of and need for 24 types of generic services. It is the most widely evaluated older-people specific quality of life instrument with (internationally) the most evidence.
PCCC or QoL? ?
This compendium contains patient-reported measures that are either designed to specifically measure aspects of Person Centred Co-Ordinated Care (P3C), or alternatively tools that are designed to measure some aspect of Quality of Life (QoL) or Health Related Quality of Life (hrQoL). All the measures in this compendium have been broadly categorised into one of those two concepts.
Quality of Life
Main Domains Measured ?
This is the key domains that the measure is targeting.
Social resources, economic resources, mental health, physical health, activities of daily living
Type of measure ?
The measures in this compendium can take a variety of forms. Generally, they will be either Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) or Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM). However, we have also included a few measures that are completed by proxy-individual (PROXY), which are useful in instances where the respondent cannot answer directly (e.g. dementia or end of life). Sometimes, these measures can even be a composite of these types, and target both experiences and outcomes – we have labelled these measures “PROEMs”.
PROM
Respondent ?
The person that fills in the questionnaire - e.g. patient, Health Care Professional, or proxy (normally a carer or family member)
Professionals

Detailed Information

Year developed ?
The year in which the measure was first published.
1985
Country developed in ?
The main country[s] in which the measure was first developed.
US
Original publication ?
The publication in which the measure was originally published.
Search Citations of Original Reference
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4031339
Target condition ?
The measures can be either generic or disease specific (e.g. Diabetes, Heart Failure)
Older People
Main context tested in ?
The main context in which the measure has been developed and used (E.g. Hopital, General Practice etc).
Assessment of older people.
Main countries used in ?
The main countries in which the measure has been developed and used.
US
Target age ?
e.g. Adults, Children, Elderly
Older people
Main uses of measure ?
The context in which the measure is most often used – e.g. clinical trials; national surveys.
Assessment of functional capacity in older people.
Used in UK? ?
Whether the instrument has been tested and validated within a UK healthcare context.
No
Impact ?
A crude indication of the impact of the measure on academia. This is the number of times the original publication has been cited on PubMed, divided/normalised to the years since publication.
0.903225806
Language
English

Domains

Domain description
Social resources, economic resources, mental health, physical health, activities of daily living

Psychometrics

Brief description ?
A brief description of the initially reported psychometric properties of the measure.
It has been criticised that the evidence of reliability was limited and responsiveness was poor - www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16119178