Nursing Resources: Research Instruments

Provides links to surveys in Spanish and English with links to information about reliability, validity, and scoring when available.

University of New Mexico's Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addictions instruments are in Spanish and English.

Research instruments for pain, quality of life, and end of life.

Includes instruments and scoring instructions for health profile, anxiety-depression, social support and stress.

Links to tools to study falls risk, sleepiness, caregiver burden, and other research issues for elderly patients.

There is no charge to use these questionnaires for student projects. Provides links to instruments, validity and reliability articles, and scoring criteria.

Provided by the Fetzer Institute in collaboration with The National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health.

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.

These surveys and tools are public documents available for free when used for non-commercial purposes. These are organized by broad topic area.

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.

Sponsored by the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute at the University of Washington, this resource provides links to instruments for screening and assessment.

Provides links to more than 30 assessment tools, click on index to instruments.

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.