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Measures & Instruments

Resources for finding full-text health and psychological measurement instruments.

Institutional Resources

NYU Langone Health's Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Research Concierge Service provides guidance to researchers who are navigating the process of starting a study. Consult with the CTSI for input on survey drafts and implementation plans to maximize the effectiveness of data collection strategies.

Search for Instruments and Tools

NOTE: In many cases, complete instruments will be published in journal articles. Other instruments may require a license fee to obtain and/or administer them. Fees may vary from one test to another and/or may depend on the number of times the test is administered. NYUHSL does not provide these licenses or funding to obtain them.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)

  • Indexes use of tests and measurement instruments in public health, nursing, psychology, human resources, sociology, and communication literature.  
  • Search Tip: Select Primary Source under Limits on the search screen to limit the results to articles that contain the complete instrument or articles that assess the instrument's validity/reliability.

Mental Measurements Yearbook

  • Original reviews of and citations to articles about available educational, psychological, and vocational tests. 

PsycTESTS via APA PsycNET

  • Summaries, full text, and citations on the development and assessment of tests and measures that can be used in research and teaching.

PsycINFO via Ovid

  • Index of APA publications identifying psychologically relevant material.
  • Search Tip: The TM field ["tests and measures" field] contains the names of published tests and measures mentioned in the source document. 

Rehabilitation Measures Database

  • The collection contains over 580 measures and is utilized by therapists, researchers, educators and doctors. Rehabilitation Measures Database (RMD) includes measures, benchmarks and outcomes in physical medicine and rehabilitation.

PhenX Toolkit

  • The PhenX (consensus measures for Phenotypes and eXposures) Toolkit is a web-based catalog of measurement protocols of phenotypes and exposures suitable for inclusion in genomic, clinical, and translational research studies with human participants.

PubMed

  • Search Tip: Medical Subject Headings (MESH) for the concept of tests and measurement include: questionnaires, psychological tests, psychometrics outcome, and process assessment (health care).

CINAHL Complete

  • Index of the literature of nursing and the allied health professions.
  • Search Tip: To limit your search to research instruments, go to Search Options and scroll down to Publication Types.  Select  “research instrument” under Publication Type. View demo video

Tests and Measures in the Social Sciences: Tests available in compilation volumes. 

  • 127 collections have been indexed to provide access to citations for approximately 12,000 measures. This is simply a list of some of the tests that can be found quickly in compilation volumes available in many libraries. This site was designed as a service to locate tests, measures, instruments, etc. when there is a known title and a copy of the test is desired.

SDSU Test Finder. 

  • A "deep index" of books that contain instruments, some with numerous examples, and some with only 1-2. This resource is a nice compliment to the above "Tests in Compilation Volumes" list. 

SAVIR Instrument Library

  • Full text of freely available instruments from the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR).
  • Search Tip: Select "Research Forms & Instruments" from the publication type search limits at the bottom of the page.