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Older Americans Resources and Services Multidimensional Functional Assessment Questionnaire (OARS)

[ OARS MFAQ or OARS; the OARS MFAQ developed in 1981 is a refinement of two earlier versions: the OARS Clinical Instrument and the OARS Community Survey Questionnaire ]

	Author(s)
Duke University Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development

Purpose

Pathology:

Generic

Disease:

All

Objective:

For general multidimensional assessment of the elderly (overall personal functional status and service use)

Population:

Adult

[ Typically age 65+ ]

Characteristics

Type of instrument:

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

Mode of administration:

Interviewer-administered
Proxy-administered
Self-administered
Telephone-administered

Number of items:

101

Existence of database:

Yes

[ Available only under special circumstances ]

Time recall:

Depends on question

Language(s)

Original language:

English for the USA

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)

Afrikaans	Italian	Spanish for Cuba	Spanish for the USA (Texas)
Chinese	Portuguese	Spanish for Puerto Rico
German	Portuguese for Brazil

+ individual sections (but not the whole questionnaire) in French, Greek, Korean

Last update: June 2008
Last update in collaboration with the author: March 2008