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Aging Males Symptoms Scale (AMS)

[ Developed in 1999 ]

	Author(s)
Prof Heinemann Lothar, AJ

Purpose

Pathology:

Generic

Disease:

All

Objective:

To measure health-related quality of life (QoL) or severity of complaints in aging males
To measure changes over time and across different cultures
To measure changes before/ after treatment of hypogonadism (androgen deficiency)
To measure in a standardized way

Population:

Male
Geriatrics
Adult

[ AMS scale can be used in men with and without hypogonadism as well as under or above 40 years of age ]

Characteristics

Type of instrument:

Health-Related Quality of Life - HRQL (incl. health status)
Signs and symptoms

Mode of administration:

Self-administered

Number of items:

Existence of database:

Yes

[ More information in the restricted level ]

Time recall:

At this time

Language(s)

Original language:

German
English

[ The English AMS version was the preferred source for almost all translations into other languages ]

List of existing translations:

(the translations may not have undergone a full linguistic validation process. Please check status of translations with Mapi Research Trust / the developers / copyright holders / distributors)

Arabic for Lebanon	Finnish	Malay	Spanish
Bulgarian	French	Mongolian	Spanish for Chile
Chinese	German	Norwegian	Swedish
Chinese for Taiwan	Hungarian	Polish	Thai
Croatian	Indonesian	Portuguese	Turkish
Danish	Italian	Portuguese for Brazil	Nigerian (Yoruba)
Dutch	Japanese	Romanian
Dutch for Belgium (Flemish)	Korean	Russian
English	Latvian	Slovenian

Last update: December 2008
Last update in collaboration with the author: November 2008