Nursing- Legacy: Instruments
Created by Health Science Librarians
Health & Psychosocial Testing & Assessment Resources
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Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental MeasuresLocation: HSL Reference BF 431. G619d
Directory of non-commercial behavioral and social science experimental instruments recently developed or recently used. Contents are from articles in 37 relevant professional journals. -
ETS TestLink DatabaseAbstracts for over 25,000+ psychological, educational, and health related assessments dating from the present back to the 1900's.
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Finding Tests, Surveys, and Measurements TutorialThis guide is designed to help people get started in finding reviews of tests, finding tests that might suit a particular need (i.e. tests for badminton skills, tests for reading comprehension), and obtaining actual copies of tests. Each of these aspects of tests and measurements research is described below.
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PsycTESTSA research database that provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about the test and its development and administration.
Finding Instruments in CINAHL
In CINAHL, there are two ways you can search for instruments that have been used in studies.
If you know the name of the instrument, you can type the name in the search box and then select "Instrumentation" from the drop down menu before you search.
If you know the topic of the instrument but don't have a specific name, you can search for words related to your topic. In this case, the word has to appear in the name of the instrument.
Finding Instruments in PsycInfo
In PsycInfo, you can also search by the instrument name or topic by using the Tests & Measures feature in the drop down menu.
Looking for a copy of an instrument?
If you are trying to find a copy of an instrument, PsycTests sometimes has full versions of questionnaires.
You can also try searching the web to see if there is a free copy of the tool available.
Alternately, you can search the Dissertations and Theses database for the name of the instrument, as many full instruments are included as an Appendix of a dissertation.
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Dissertations & Theses @ University of North Carolina at Chapel HillProvides indexing and some full text access to dissertations completed here at Chapel Hill and submitted to the Dissertations Abstracts database. It provides citations for Chapel Hill dissertation from the 1920s and Masters theses from 1966 on.