Nursing Instruments & Measurements

Books, chapters, and web resources to help you locate nursing instruments and questionnaires.

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Note: Unpublished tests or instruments are protected under copyright and permissions must often must be obtained directly from the authors. Published tests may require a fee from the publisher or commercial licensing agency to use. Contact the Library if you need help finding a questionnaire/tool.

Buros Center for Testing
Allows searching for tests in the Mental Measurements Yearbook.
CINAHL (Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health)
Tip: Limit publication type to "Research Instrument" or "Questionnaire/Scale"; also use the IN field code to search for literature citing specific research instruments.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
Provides access to information on a wide variety of measurement instruments for the health sciences, psychology and social sciences.
Guide with links to Health Sciences Instruments from the University of Michigan
MEDLINE
Helpful MESH headings for the concept of tests and measurement include: questionnaires, psychological tests, psychometrics outcome, and process assessment (health care). Database may be searched using important words from the title of a particular instrument.
ProQolid
Patient-reported Outcome and Quality of Life Instruments Database (limited free access available)

Last Updated: Oct 26, 2023 10:55 AM
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Subjects: Nursing & Social Work

Tags: instruments, measurements, questionnaires, surveys, tools