In January 2024, USD's Library will subscribe to Journal of Nursing Measurement
Nursing Databases for Measurements, Tests, Scales, Tools, Questionnaires
- Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) - Instruments of use in assessing health and behavior. Includes questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, coding schemes, rating scales and tests
- Use the HaPI website to guide you on searching the HaPI database above
- Mental Measurements Yearbook - provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
- APA PsycTests - research database that provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about the tests.
- In CINAHL use the Instrumentation field in Advanced Search
Searching PubMed for measurements:
MeSH terms - "Surveys and Questionnaires," "Psychological Tests" "Psychometrics" "Evaluation Studies As Topic" "Reproducibility of Results"
MeSH subheading - "Instrumentation" (ex. Nursing/instrumentation, Pain management/instrumentation, psychiatry/instrumentation)
Other terms - scale, survey, measurement, questionnaire, tool, assessment, test
It is always worth a try to email a librarian at the National Library of Medicine to ask for suggestions on accessing a tool or measurement.