Nursing Research Instruments

From the website: "The Stanford Patient Education Research Center has about 20 years of experience developing, adapting, and testing self-administered scales in English and Spanish for research subjects with chronic diseases. These scales are here for you to use in your own research at no cost, thanks to funding from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR). You may use any of these scales at no cost without permission."

From the website: This resource is intended to help clinicians and researchers find instruments used for screening and assessment of substance use and substance use disorders. Some instruments are in the public domain and can be freely downloaded from the web; others can only be obtained from the copyright holder. We don't provide copies of instruments, but links to contact and availability information are included if known. We welcome submissions of instruments, as well as corrections for those already included.

From the website: "The TMdb is an aid in locating known assessment instruments. Entries include only instrument title, author, date, & pages located in a larger compilation. We assume a proper literature review has been done to identify the appropriate tools."

From the website: " Assessment CenterSM is a free, online data collection tool that enables researchers to create study-specific websites for capturing participant data securely online.

Studies can include measures within the Assessment Center library as well as custom instruments entered by the researcher. The instrument library includes self- and proxy-report short forms, computerized adaptive tests (CATs), and batteries or profiles from: Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS), Quality of Life in Neurological Diseases (Neuro-QOL) & NIH Toolbox
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From the website: "The Medical Outcomes Trust is a not for profit organization dedicated to improving health and health care by promoting the science of outcomes measurement.

The Trust was incorporated in Massachusetts in 1992 as a public service organization. It began its programs in June, 1994 with a grant from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. In 2000, the Trust became affiliated with Health Assessment Lab (HAL), a non-profit research organization based in Boston. HAL evolved from the health status assessment group at the Health Institute of the New England Medical Center."

From their website: "The Test Collection at ETS is a database of more than 25,000 tests and other measurement devices, most of which were created by authors outside ETS. It makes information on standardized tests and research instruments available to researchers, graduate students and teachers. With information about tests from the early 1900s to the present, the Test Collection at ETS is the largest compilation of such materials in the world.

The tests in this collection were acquired from a variety of U.S. publishers and individual test authors. Foreign tests are also included in the collection, including some from Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia."