LibGuides: Nursing Resources: Research Instruments

Books @ Cheng Library

Measurement in nursing and health research by Carolyn Feher Waltz
Call Number: RT81.5.W36 2010
ISBN: 9780826105073
Instruments for clinical health-care research by Marillyn Frank-Stromberg, Sharon J. Olsen
Call Number: REF RT81.5.I57 2004
ISBN: 0763722529
Measuring health: a guide to rating scales and questionnaires by Ian McDowell
Call Number: RA 408.5.M38 2006
ISBN: 0195165675

Research Instruments, Surveys & Tools

Where can I find free surveys, questionnaires, or other research instruments?

Center for AIDS Prevention Studies: CAPS Instruments
Provides links to surveys in Spanish and English with links to information about reliability, validity, and scoring when available.
Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions
University of New Mexico's Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addictions instruments are in Spanish and English.
City of Hope Pain & Palliative Care Resource Center
Research instruments for pain, quality of life, and end of life.
Duke University's Department of Community and Family Medicine
Includes instruments and scoring instructions for health profile, anxiety-depression, social support and stress.
Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing: Assessment Tools
Links to tools to study falls risk, sleepiness, caregiver burden, and other research issues for elderly patients.
Indiana University, Bloomington: Alcohol Research and Health History Questionnaires
There is no charge to use these questionnaires for student projects. Provides links to instruments, validity and reliability articles, and scoring criteria.
Multidimensional Measurement of Religiousness/Spirituality for Use in Health Research
Provided by the Fetzer Institute in collaboration with The National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health.
Psychological Tests for Student Use
These tests are available for free for student use. Information about validity and reliability is not included students will need to verify and evaluate these tests for themselves.
RAND Health: Surveys & Tools
These surveys and tools are public documents available for free when used for non-commercial purposes. These are organized by broad topic area.
Stanford School of Medicine: Research Instruments
The Standford Pateint Education Research Center provides instruments, and coding/scoring instructions as PDF files. These instruments may be used at no cost and without permission.
Substance Use Screening & Assessment Instruments Database
Sponsored by the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute at the University of Washington, this resource provides links to instruments for screening and assessment.
Tools, Instruments & Questionnaires for research & evaluation of intervention programs
Provides links to more than 30 assessment tools, click on index to instruments.
UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity: Tools for Researchers
Provides a number of tools to assess weight bias, intervention effectiveness, scales to measure attitudes and beliefs about obesity. Includes scoring information and complete citation for each tool.

E-Books @ Cheng Library

Measurement of nursing outcomes: Client outcomes and quality of care by Strickland,O.
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 082611427X
Publication Date: 2003
Includes tools to measure caring, client perceptions of care, quality of care.
Measurement of nursing outcomes: Self-care and coping by Strickland, O.
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 9780826117953
Publication Date: 2003
Includes tools to measure self-efficacy, self esteem, coping, and social support.
Measurement of nursing outcomes: Measuring nursing performance in practice, education, and research by Strickland, O.
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 9780826114174
Publication Date: 2001
Includes tools to measure clinical decision making, clinical competence, student stress and coping.