Find Instruments in PubMed & Other Databases
PubMed and other databases are rich sources of research articles that focus on data collection with questionnaires, survey, instruments, etc. Here is a technique to help you focus your search on those articles: Just combine your subject search with "questionnaires." For example:
smoking cessation AND community programs AND questionnaires
This search will locate articles that collect data on the relation of OT to smoking cessation programs. The articles may describe or include the survey or questionnaire instruments. If they don't, you can contact the article authors directly for more information about their data collection.
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PubMed This link opens in a new windowSearches MEDLINE, the leading database of journal articles in the health sciences, including medicine, nursing, the allied health sciences, public health, and the basic sciences. Coverage is 1946 - present.
Search Techniques for Finding Questionnaires in CINAHL & Other Databases
CINAHL and other databases are rich sources of research articles that focus on data collection with questionnaires, survey, instruments, etc. Here is a technique to help you focus your search on those articles: Just combine your subject search with QUESTIONNAIRES. For example:
occupational therapy AND hippo therapy AND questionnaires
This search will locate articles that collect data on the relation of OT to horseback riding. The articles may describe or include the survey or questionnaire instruments. If they don't, you can contact the article authors directly for more information about their data collection.
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CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
1300+ full-text journals available to support nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This resource also provides access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, evidence-based care sheet and quick lesson disease overviews, and continuing education modules.
Search HaPI, Psyc Tests and Mental Measurements Index
Use these three databases to findspecific questionnaires, tests, surveys, and instruments.
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PsycTESTS This link opens in a new window
A collection of psychological measures, scales, surveys, and other instruments essential to the research needs of professionals, students, and educators across the behavioral and social sciences. PsycTESTS indexes a wide variety of test types and instruments— including aptitude tests, personality scales, and cognitive functioning measures.
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HaPI - Health and Psychosocial Instruments This link opens in a new window
A bibliographic database covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences and information about behavioral measurement instruments. Over 2/3 of the tools are in medical and nursing areas such pain measurement, quality of life assessment, and drug efficacy evaluation. Limited to 1 simultaneous user
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Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print This link opens in a new window
This database provides users with a comprehensive guide to 3,000+ contemporary testing instruments. Critical reviews and descriptive information for English-language commercially available standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas (as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbook). Limited to 4 simultaneous users