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oldr: An Implementation of the Rapid Assessment Method for Older People (RAM-OP)

HelpAge International, VALID International, and Brixton Health, with financial assistance from the Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF), have developed a Rapid Assessment Method for Older People (RAM-OP) that provides accurate and reliable estimates of the needs of older people. The method uses simple procedures, in a short time frame (i.e. about two weeks including training, data collection, data entry, and data analysis), and at considerably lower cost than other methods. The RAM-OP method is based on the following principles:

• Use of a familiar “household survey” design employing a two-stage cluster sample design optimised to allow the use of a small primary sample (m ≥ 16 clusters) and a small overall (n ≥ 192) sample.

• Assessment of multiple dimensions of need in older people (including prevalence of global, moderate and severe acute malnutrition) using, whenever possible, standard and well-tested indicators and question sets.

• Data analysis performed using modern computer-intensive methods to allow estimates of indicator levels to be made with useful precision using a small sample size.

Installation

You can install {oldr} from CRAN with:

install.packages("oldr")

You can install the latest development version of {oldr} from the RapidSurveys R Universe with:

install.packages(
  "oldr", repos = c("https://rapidsurveys.r-universe.dev")
)

or from GitHub with:

if (!require(pak)) install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("rapidsurveys/oldr")

Usage

This package contains functions that support in the data processing, analysis, and visualisation of RAM-OP survey datasets collected using the standard RAM-OP survey questionnaire.

The figure below illustrates the RAM-OP workflow and indicates which functions in the {oldr} package support which particular step in the process.

DiagrammeR::grViz("
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    g -> j
    h -> j
    j -> l
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    edge [minlen = 3]

    b -> c
    c -> b
    d -> e
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    f -> g
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    subgraph {
      rank = same; b; c;
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    subgraph {
      rank = same; d; e;
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    subgraph {
      rank = same; f; g; h; i;
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    subgraph {
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    [11]: 'chart_\\nfunctions'
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)

knitr::include_graphics("man/figures/ramOPworkflow.png")

For a more detailed description of the RAM-OP survey, read the RAM-OP manual.

Citation

If you use the {oldr} package in your work, please cite using the suggested citation provided by a call to the citation function as follows:

citation("oldr")

Community guidelines

Feedback, bug reports, and feature requests are welcome; file issues or seek support here. If you would like to contribute to the package, please see our contributing guidelines.

This project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.

validmeasures/oldr documentation built on Feb. 12, 2025, 7:12 a.m.