Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index.

WOMAC

What it measures

Osteoarthritis symptom burden in the hip and knee: pain, stiffness, and physical function.

Length and format

24 (5 pain, 2 stiffness, 17 function). 5-pt Likert or 100mm visual analogue, depending on version (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

~90 language versions, one of the most widely adapted condition-specific measures in existence

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

copyrighted - commercial

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Reference

Bellamy, N., Buchanan, W. W., Goldsmith, C. H., Campbell, J., & Stitt, L. W. (1988). Validation study of WOMAC. Journal of Rheumatology, 15(12), 1833-1840.