Research Guides: Social Work: Tests, Measurements & Diagnostic Tools

Databases with Tests

CINAHL
CINAHL Provides indexing for nursing and health journals. The database contains records dating back to 1972. In addition, the database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, and selected conference proceedings.
CINAHL Abstracting and Indexing Database
Nurses, allied health professionals, researchers, nurse educators and students depend on the CINAHL Database to research their subject areas from this authoritative index of nursing and allied health journals. CINAHL indexes the top nursing and allied health literature available including nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association. CINAHL also includes rigorous curation and indexing of open access (OA) journals, which has resulted in a growing collection of 1,446 active global OA journals.  Once validated and certified for inclusion, these OA journals are treated with high-quality subject indexing and sophisticated, precise/accurate full-text linking.
Subject Headings
CINAHL Subject Headings help users effectively search and retrieve information and follow the structure of the Medical Subject headings (MeSH) used by the National Library of Medicine. These Subject Headings help researchers find new concepts, including COVID-19, social distancing and vaping as well as local terminology.
Content Includes
3,814 active indexed and abstracted journals
3,461 active peer-reviewed indexed and abstracted journals
1,312 journals with searchable cited references

Enter relevant keywords in the search boxes. Locate the search limit “Publication Type” and select “Questionnaire/Scale” and “Research Instrument”.

ERIC [via EBSCOhost]
ERIC [via EBSCOhost] contains bibliographic records of research reports, conference papers, teaching guides, books, and journal articles relating to the practice of education. ERIC Digests are included. Covers the period 1966-present.
ERIC [via U.S. Department of Education]
ERIC [via U.S. Department of Education] is a Web-based digital library of free education-related sources and consists primarily of electronic bibliographic records describing journal and non-journal literature. The collection also includes full-texts of articles and other electronic resources such as audio and video materials.

Enter relevant keywords in the search boxes. Locate the search limit “Publication Type” and select “Tests/Questionnaires”.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) [via EBSCOhost]
HaPI is a bibliographic database that indexes measurements and instrumentation to assess human health and behavior, from books, leading journals and other sources covering health and psychosocial sciences. HaPI indexes questionnaires, rating scales, surveys, interview schedules, checklists, coding schemes, tests, tools, and other measurements to conduct research in the disciplines of psychology, sociology, nursing, organizational behavior, medicine, public health, social work, education, and communication. The record provides citation information of sources that uses the instruments and not the actual instruments. The producer, Behavioral Measurement Database Services, offers a merit-based HaPI measurement scholarship and posts a how to use guide and description of the fields. Search with keywords and the EBSCOHost subject terms.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
Concurrent user limit: 4
Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides a guide to contemporary testing instruments and contains information for evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. User guides are available on the publisher site.
PsychiatryOnline
Psychiatry Online includes access to the full-text of the DSM-V (DSM-5) as well as several journals from American Psychiatric Publishing, including the American Journal of Psychiatry.
APA PsycInfo
In PsycINFO use the Tests and Measures field to find measures used in a study and sometimes the actual measure. Search for the name of the measure or a keyword and enter the word appended in the Tests and Measures field. See this APA tutorial on searching for tests and measures in PsycINFO. FAQ: Finding information about psychological tests
PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 37 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is the largest component of PubMed and consists primarily of journal citations; articles indexed with MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) and curated with funding, genetic, chemical and other metadata.

Enter relevant keywords and add appropriate MeSH terms such as: “Psychological tests”, “Psychometrics”, “Psychiatric status rating scales” or “Questionnaires”.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Global
PQDT Global offers millions of works from thousands of universities. Full-text coverage spans from 1743 to the present, with citation coverage dating back to 1637.

Search for the name of the test or measure and limit to the “Abstract” or “Title” field. Check the table of contents of the dissertation or thesis to see if the instrument is included in the appendix.

REDCap Shared Library
A repository for REDCap data collection instruments and forms that can be downloaded and used by researchers at REDCap partner institution. More information about getting REDCap access at Temple: via Temple University Hospitals (for researchers at the Health Sciences Campus), via the College of Public Health (for researchers on Main Campus)

Additional sources are on the Test and Measurements Library Guide:

Tests and Measurements
Library guide to tests and measurement

Websites with Tests and Measurements

Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-DASS
Via the Psychology Foundation of Australia
Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised (ECR-R) Adult Attachment Questionnaire
Farley, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Geriatric Depression Scale
Stanford/VA/NIA Aging Clinical Research Center
Measuring Intimate Partner Violence Victimization and Perpetration: A Compendium of Assessment Tools
The first four items lead to multiple measures. The remaining items are single, individual measures.
Measuring Violence-Related Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors Among Youths: A Compendium of Assessment Tools
Psychological Maltreatment of Women Inventory
Richard M. Tolman, School of Social Work, University of Michigan
Rand Health Survey and Tools
These surveys are public documents, available without charge, for non-commercial purposes. Provided by the Rand Corporation, a nonprofit institution that seeks to improve policy and decision-making through research and analysis.
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The surveys are designed for a wide range of purposes, including assessing patients' health, screening for mental health conditions, and measuring quality of care and quality of life. Many of these surveys are intended for the general population, but can be tailored to specific groups, such as the elderly, Medicaid recipients, veterans, and families with small children. They include surveys for Serious Illness, the SF-36, Patient Satisfaction, Homelessness, Vulnerable Elders, Mental Health Inventory, Social Support, and the Depression Screener.
Adult Attachment Questionnaires and Scales
Kim Barholomew, Simon Fraser University
Self-Report Measures, e.g., COPE, LOT-R
A variety of measures made available by Dr. Charles Carver, University of Miami. For instance, COPE is a measure of coping; LOT-R measures optimism-pessimism;MAQ, a measure of adult attachment qualities.
ETS Test Link Database
Indexes 25,000+ tests with purchasing information. Some can be purchased online and downloaded. To look for free access, identify a test in Test Link and then look up the source citation in Library Search.
Tests and Measures in the Social Sciences (Internet Archives)
A searchable index of measurement tools used in psychology, sociology, health, marketing, management, and other social science fields.
Test Reviews Online
Provides descriptions of over 3,500 commercially available tests; over 2,800 of them have reviews that can be purchased individually. Look up the name of the test in Library Search and databases to see availability at Temple.

Streaming Video

Counseling and Therapy in Video
Counseling and Therapy in Video provides an online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. Videos include counseling sessions and demonstrations, consultations, lectures, presentations, and interviews.
Kanopy
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions, and it includes videos from the Symptom Media online mental health education and Psychotherapy.net training film libraries. The DSM 5 Guided Collection showcases symptoms unfolding, to provide visual case scenarios to complement descriptions and definitions from the text. Some of these videos may need to be requested through the form on the item page in Kanopy.

Books

Measures for Clinical Practice and Research: a Sourcebook, Volume 1. Couples, Families, and Children by Joel Fischer; Kevin Corcoran
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
This first volume covers measures for use with couples, families, and children; its companion focuses on adults. Useful for psychology, social work, psychiatry, counseling, nursing, and medicine. Each instrument is reproduced in its entirety and critiqued by the editors, who provide guidance on how to select and score them.
Measures for clinical practice and research. Volume 2, Adults : a sourcebook by Joel Fischer; Kevin Corcoran
Publication Date: 2007-01-11
This volume focuses on scales for use with adults.
Tests : a comprehensive reference for assessments in psychology, education, and business by Taddy Maddox
Publication Date: 1997 (print)
A reference guide containing information on thousands of assessment instruments, is designed especially for psychologists, educators and human resources personnel.
Tests in print VI : an index to tests, test reviews, and the literature on specific tests by Lincoln: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements,
Publication Date: 2002 (print)
Provides descriptions for known commercially available tests that are in print in English. Is included as part of the Mental Measurements Yearbook database on the EBSCO platform. There are eight volumes. Volumes I-V are also available in print.