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Reference List of Tools, Instruments, and Measurements Useful to Nurses

The following list is divided by general topics. There may be costs and copyright considerations associated with the use of some tools. Tools referenced under a certain topic may be useful in other areas. Please examine each tool to determine usability and allowable use, reuse, and cross applications.

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Nursing & Allied Health Index to Measurement & Assessment Tools/Instruments & Questionnaires, compiled by Eileen Heaser, 2008


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  • Godin Leisure-time Exercise Questionnaire (GLTEQ) -- used to assess participants' frequency of exercise and is frequently used in cardiovascular research.: http://bit.ly/GLTEQ_adai_inst
  • Dialysis Patient Satisfaction Survey (DPSS) -- to assess renal patients' satisfaction with the health care they are receiving, including satisfaction with their kidney doctor, the nurses they see at the dialysis clinic, other staff at the dialysis clinic and at their primary kidney doctor's office, the physical environment at the clinic, and their health plan.: https://www.rand.org/health-care/surveys_tools/dpss.html
  • Measures of Patient Adherence Survey -- A general measure assessed patients' adherence to treatment for heart disease, diabetes, and hypertension; a specific measure assessed patients' adherence to treatment recommendations for the tracer conditions studied in the MOS and also gathered information about how often the patient carried out the recommendations.:  https://www.rand.org/health-care/surveys_tools/mos/patient-adherence.html
  • Acne Disability Index (ADI) -- Assesses the impact of acne on social function and mood, designed for use in a clinical setting. Additional fees may be assessed, information available here: https://eprovide.mapi-trust.org/instruments/cardiff-acne-disability-index
  • Bowel Function Diary (BF-Diary) -- comprehensively captures the relevant patient information about opioid-induced constipation (OIC) in a clinical trial setting. Additional fees may be assessed, information available here: https://eprovide.mapi-trust.org/instruments/bowel-function-diary
  • CHIPTS Family Environment Scale - a 90-item inventory with 10 subscales that assess interpersonal relationships, personal development goals, and organizational structure. http://chipts.ucla.edu/resources/download-info/family-environment-scale/
  • CHIPTS Family Interdependence -- The Family Interdependence Scale asses the cultural values that adolescents place on closeness, interdependence, and obligations within a family.: http://chipts.ucla.edu/resources/download-info/family-interdependence/
  • CHIPTS Partner Violence -- http://chipts.ucla.edu/resources/download-info/violence-partner/
  • Community Assessment Inventory (CAI) -- The 37-item Community Assessment Inventory measures individuals' perceptions of level of support in four domains: household members, which may include spouse or partner and/or adult relatives; family outside the home; friends; and community.: http://bit.ly/CAI_inst
  • Condom Barriers Scale, Condom Barriers Scale for Men (CBS) -- The Condom Barriers Scale is a 29-item instrument designed to measure men and women's perceived barriers to condom use for prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.: http://bit.ly/CBS_inst
  • Epilepsy Surgery Inventory 55 Survey – Describes eleven health concepts: health perceptions; energy/fatigue; overall quality of life; social functioning; emotional well-being; cognitive functioning; role limitations due to emotional problems, memory problems, or physical health problems; physical functioning; and pain.: https://www.rand.org/health-care/surveys_tools/esi.html
  • Family Environment Scale (FES) -- assesses ten dimensions of the social climate of all types of families in the areas of relationship (cohesion, expressiveness, conflict), personal growth (independence, achievement orientation, intellectual-cultural, orientation, active-recreational orientation, moral-religious emphasis), system maintenance (organization, control), and change.: http://bit.ly/FES_inst
  • Five Factor Wellness Inventory -- Evidence-based tool to assess wellness characteristics as a basis for helping patients/the public make choices for healthier living. Available for purchase.: https://www.mindgarden.com/99-five-factor-wellness-inventory
  • Health-care Self-determination Theory Questionnaire -- three questionnaires that have been developed to assess constructs contained within Self-Determination Theory (SDT) as the theory relates to health-care behavior. https://selfdeterminationtheory.org/health-care-self-determination-theory
  • Health-Specific Self-Efficacy Scales -- developed to examine the relationship between self-efficacy, intentions, and behaviors in the context of large-scale field studies designed to screen diverse populations. http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~health/healself.pdf
  • HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study -- includes multi-item measures of physical functioning, role functioning, pain, general health perceptions, social functioning, energy, and emotional well-being. It also included single-item measures of disability days, overall health, and overall quality of life.: https://www.rand.org/health-care/surveys_tools/hcsus.html
  • Kidney Disease Quality of Life Instrument (KDQOL) -- a short form that includes the SF-12 as generic core plus the burden of kidney disease, symptoms/problems of kidney disease, and effects of kidney disease scales from the KDQOL-SF™v1.3. : https://www.rand.org/health-care/surveys_tools/kdqol.html
  • The Medical Outcomes Study: Measures of Quality of Life Core Survey (MOS) -- measures of quality of life include physical, mental, and general health.: https://www.rand.org/health-care/surveys_tools/mos.html
  • Perceptions about Medications for Diabetes -- 21 Items (PAM-D21) -- designed to understand predictors of satisfaction with and adherence to diabetes medications. Fees may be assessed, information available here: https://eprovide.mapi-trust.org/instruments/perceptions-about-medications-for-diabetes-21-items
  • Quality of Life in Epilepsy Inventory (QOLIE-89 and QOLIE-31) -- 17 multi-item measures of overall quality of life, emotional well-being, role limitations due to emotional problems, social support, social isolation, energy/fatigue, worry about seizure, medication effects, health discouragement, work/driving/social function, attention/concentration, language, memory, physical function, pain, role limitations due to physical problems, and health perceptions.: https://www.rand.org/health-care/surveys_tools/qolie.html
  • Quality of Life Interview – Brief Version (QOLI-BV) -- This instrument is an abbreviated version of the QOLI. The fully structured QOLI-BV yields nine subjective and four objective scales. The nine subjective scales assess global life satisfaction ("How do you feel about your life in general?") and satisfaction with living situation, daily activities, family relations, social relations, finances, job, safety, and health. : http://bit.ly/QOLI-BV_inst
  • Quality of Well-being Scale (QWB) -- instrument for assessing quality of life that provides estimates of quality adjusted life years (QALYs).: http://bit.ly/QWB_inst
  • RAND Negative Impact of Asthma on Quality of Life Item Bank and Short Forms -- assess health-related quality of life in adult patients with asthma. Quality of life is defined in terms of how much asthma symptoms and impairments bother or matter to the patient.: https://www.rand.org/health-care/surveys_tools/iaql.html
  • Sexual Problems Measures Survey -- The MOS sexual problems measures are part of the core MOS measures of quality of life.: https://www.rand.org/health-care/surveys_tools/mos/sexual-problems.html
  • Sleep Scale Survey -- The Sleep Scale was developed for the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS), a two-year study of patients with chronic conditions.: https://www.rand.org/health-care/surveys_tools/mos/sleep-scale.html
  • The SMU Health Questionnaire (SMUHQ) -- measures whether individuals have either been diagnosed or treated for a variety of health problems. The health items can be viewed separately or as a composite index. https://www.dropbox.com/s/cp8bgra7l57a010/SMUHQ.pdf?dl=0
  • Social Support Survey -- developed for patients in the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS), a two-year study of patients with chronic conditions.: https://www.rand.org/health-care/surveys_tools/mos/social-support.html
  • Spiritual Health Inventory (SHI) -- assessment of an individual's spirituality: http://bit.ly/SHI_inst
  • Benefit Finding -- assesses the perception that positive contributions were made to one's life by the experience of being diagnosed with and treated for breast cancer. http://local.psy.miami.edu/faculty/ccarver/sclBenefit.phtml
  • Blood-Borne Virus Transmission Risk Assessment Questionnaire (BBV-TRAQ) -- assesses the frequency with which injecting drug users (IDUs) have participated in specific injecting, sexual and other risk-practices in the previous month that may expose them to blood-borne viruses.: http://bit.ly/BBV-TRAQ_inst
  • Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) -- developed for rapid assessment of the severity and impact of pain in cancer patients.: http://bit.ly/BPI_inst
  • HIV Patient-assessed Report of Status and Experience (HIV-PARSE) -- The HIV Patient-Assessed Report of Status and Experience (HIV-PARSE) survey instrument is a self-administered patient survey developed by RAND and the University of California at San Diego. It is designed to assess patient outcomes in clinical trials of therapies for treating HIV-infected patients.: https://www.rand.org/health-care/surveys_tools/hivparse.html
  • Quality of Life in Adult Cancer Survivors (QLACS) -- a measure specifically for use with persons who are 5 or more years past their cancer diagnosis. Five cancer-specific domains were identified (appearance concerns, financial problems, distress over recurrence, family-related distress, and benefits of cancer) along with 7 generic QOL domains (negative feelings, positive feelings, cognitive problems, sexual problems, physical pain, fatigue, and social avoidance). Each has a separate subscale. http://local.psy.miami.edu/faculty/ccarver/sclQLACS.phtml
  • UCSF Prevention Science HIV Survey Instruments and Scales -- set of tools related to behaviors and attitudes that may increate individual risk of HIV. https://prevention.ucsf.edu/resources
  • Client Satisfaction Questionnaire – 18B (CSQ-18B) – an 18-item instrument designed to assess satisfaction with health or mental health services, preventive services, and the general array of human services provided to a client during a stay at a hospital or treatment center.: http://bit.ly/CSQ-18B_inst
  • Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) -- designed to assess health plan performance from the consumer perspective in multiple health care settings (commercial, Medicaid, Medicare); reports were intended to give consumers information in a user-friendly format, broadened in scope to include surveys and reporting recommendations for assessing individual physicians, physician groups, and hospitals. CAHPS® developed targeted item sets for persons with mobility impairments, home health, and prescription drug plans. CAHPS® now comprises a family of surveys focused on ambulatory care (e.g., health plans, home health, surgical care, dental plans) and facilities (e.g. hospital, in-center hemodialysis, and nursing homes).: https://www.rand.org/health-care/projects/cahps.html
  • Hospital Competition Measures - The report presents an alphabetical list of variables and attributes to help calculate variable-radius measures of hospital market size and create measures of competition for hospitals' markets: https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR103.html
  • MBI: Human Services Survey for Medical Personnel -- The MBI-HSS (MP) is a version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory designed to measure burnout in medical services personnel. Available for purchase.: https://www.mindgarden.com/315-mbi-human-services-survey-medical-personnel
  • MCSS-26© [Manchester Clinical Supervision Scale©]. Original Version Author: Julie Winstanley.
    The MCSS-26© is a 26-item instrument for measuring the quality of Clinical Supervision [CS] from a supervisee's perspective. Designed in 2000, it can be administered online to staff in a range of health and social care settings to evaluate the efficacy of clinical practice and corporate policy. The MCSS-26© has 6 sub-scales; Importance/Value of CS, Finding Time, Trust and Rapport, Supervisory Advice/Support, Improved Care/Skills, and Reflection. The instrument response format has been tested for goodness of fit to the Rasch Model and found to command sound psychometric proprieties.
    The MCSS-26© is Copyright protected and is available to registered investigators Under License. Each MCSS-26© Package includes a User Manual, credit card USB flash drive copies of instruments and IBM/SPSS and Excel data entry files and syntax. For more information, please email enquiries@osmanconsulting.com
  • Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) -- designed to measure an employee's satisfaction with his or her job.: http://bit.ly/MSQ_adai_inst
  • Organizational Functioning and Readiness for Change (ORC) -- examines relationships between organizational functioning and client performance. It focuses on motivation and personality attributes of program leaders and staff, institutional resources, and organizational climate as an important first step in understanding organizational factors related to implementing new technologies into a program.: http://bit.ly/ORC_inst
  • Patient Satisfaction Survey (Unified Medical Group Association) -- used to assess satisfaction with care and health-related quality of life of patients of the Unified Medical Group Association. Available in English and Spanish: https://www.rand.org/health-care/surveys_tools/pss_umga.html
  • RAND Health Care Value Survey -- capture physician perceptions and beliefs regarding health care value: https://www.rand.org/health-care/surveys_tools/health-care-value-survey.html
  • RAND Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire – measures global satisfaction with medical care as well as satisfaction with six aspects of care: technical quality, interpersonal manner, communication, financial aspects of care, time spent with doctor, and accessibility of care.: https://www.rand.org/health-care/surveys_tools/psq.html
  • Visit-specific Satisfaction Instrument (VSQ-9) -- a visit-specific satisfaction instrument adapted by the American Medical Group Association from the Visit Rating Questionnaire used in the Medical Outcomes Study: https://www.rand.org/health-care/surveys_tools/vsq9.html
  • 12-Step Participation Expectancies Questionnaire -- This measure was designed to survey common attitudes and expectancies that patients with alcohol dependence may have about participating in 12-step mutual-help groups. http://bit.ly/TSPEQ_adai_inst
  • Abstinence Orientation Scale -- The Abstinence Orientation Scale (AOS) was developed to measure commitment to abstinence-oriented treatment policies in treatment staff and other providers. http://bit.ly/AOS_inst
  • Acceptance and Action Questionnaire – measures psychological flexibility in relation to substance use related thoughts, feelings, and urges. The focus of the AAQ-SA is on one's relation to or the functions of private events, versus the content of the events themselves. This instrument may provide useful information about processes of change in substance abuse treatment and guide modifications to ongoing treatment strategies. http://bit.ly/AAQSA_inst
  • Acculturation, Habits, and Interests Multicultural Scale for Adolescents -- a brief, multi-dimensional, multi-cultural acculturation scale developed specifically for use with teens.: http://bit.ly/AHIMSA_inst
  • Addiction Belief Scale -- This scale was developed to assess strength of belief in the disease versus free-will model of addiction among treatment providers.: http://bit.ly/ABS_inst
  • Adult ADHD Investigator Symptom Rating Scale – This scale was developed to better capture symptoms of ADHD in adult patients.: http://bit.ly/AISRS_adai_inst
  • Advanced Warning of Relapse (addictions) -- The AWARE Questionnaire was designed to measure the warning signs of relapse and identify potential relapse risk and precipitants in addicts.: http://bit.ly/AWARE_inst
  • American Psychological Association's FAQ/Finding Information About Psychological Tests:
  • https://www.apa.org/science/programs/testing/find-tests
  • Bem Sex Role Inventory -- designed for conducting empirical research on psychological androgyny. It is also used for workshops and counseling on gender awareness.: http://bit.ly/BSRI_inst
  • Buros Institute of Mental Measurements -- https://buros.org/
  • Camberwell Assessment of Need (CAN) -- a comprehensive needs assessment and treatment outcome tool.: http://bit.ly/CAN_inst
  • CHIPTS Dealing with Illness -- Dealing With Illness scale was designed to assess cognitive and behavioral responses made in efforts to cope with illness and was based on Billings and Moos’ (1981) description of three methods of coping: http://chipts.ucla.edu/resources/download-info/dealing-with-illness/
  • Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS) -- a clinician-administered, pen and paper instrument that rates eleven common opiate withdrawal signs or symptoms.: http://bit.ly/COWS_inst
  • COPE Complete Version -- The COPE Inventory was developed to assess a broad range of coping responses, several of which had an explicit basis in theory.   The inventory includes some responses that are expected to be dysfunctional, as well as some that are expected to be functional.  It also includes at least 2 pairs of polar-opposite tendencies. http://local.psy.miami.edu/faculty/ccarver/sclCOPEF.phtml
  • Depression Anxiety Stress Scales -- a set of three self-report scales designed to measure the negative emotional states of depression, anxiety and stress.: http://bit.ly/DASS_inst
  • Health and Daily Living Form (HDL, HDLF) -- a structured assessment for patient and community groups that assesses health-related factors such as alcohol consumption, drinking problems, and depression.: http://bit.ly/HDL_inst
  • HIV and Abuse Related Shame Inventory (HARSI) -- 31 items intended to assess HIV- and sexual abuse-related shame and the impact of shame on HIV-related health behaviors.: http://bit.ly/HARSI_inst
  • Impact of Event Scale – Revised (IES, IES-R) -- The IES-R is a 22-item self-report measure that assesses subjective distress caused by traumatic events.: http://bit.ly/IES_inst
  • Life Orientation Test – Revised (LOT-R) -- assesses trait-like optimism and pessimism via general, dispositional outcome expectancies of the respondent.: http://bit.ly/LOT-R_inst
  • Measure of Body Apperception (MBA) -- a measure of the investment in, or dependence on, one's body image as a source of the sense of self-worth.  It has two scales, which reflect reliance on physical appearance, and reliance on a sense of body intactness or integrity. http://local.psy.miami.edu/faculty/ccarver/sclMBA.phtml
  • Mental Health Inventory -- The 37 measures in the Mental Health Inventory are part of the 116 core measures of functioning and well-being from the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS), a two-year study of patients with chronic conditions.: https://www.rand.org/health-care/surveys_tools/mos/mental-health.html
  • Mental Illness: Clinicians’ Attitudes Scale (MICA) -- developed to serve as a reliable, valid and responsive scale for assessing medical students' attitudes toward people with mental illness.: http://bit.ly/MICA_inst
  • Methamphetamine Experience Questionnaire (MEQ) -- provides useful information on drug use variables that contribute to paranoia commonly associated with methamphetamine use.: http://bit.ly/MEQ_inst
  • Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) -- instrument for measuring the perception of stress.: http://bit.ly/PSS_inst
  • Protective Behavioral Strategies for Marijuana Scale -- a short assessment form that minimizes respondent burden and time: https://www.rand.org/health-care/surveys_tools/pbsm.html
  • Posttraumatic Stress Diagnostic Scale – Self-report (PDS) -- a 49-item self-report instrument designed to aid in the detection and diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).: http://bit.ly/PDS_inst
  • RAND Depression Screener -- The screener included the items for assessing major depressive and dysthymic disorders from the 12-month Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) and items assessing depression symptoms in the past month.: https://www.rand.org/health-care/surveys_tools/depression.html
  • RAND Partners in Care Tools for Improving Care for Depression in Primary Care -- Its two quality improvement programs — one focused on medication, the other on psychotherapy — are designed for use with socioeconomically and ethnically diverse populations and can be implemented successfully by clinicians in nonacademic managed care settings.: https://www.rand.org/health-care/surveys_tools/pic.html
  • Reasons for Delaying Treatment (RDT) -- This scale examines perceived barriers to addictions treatment.: http://bit.ly/RDT_inst
  • Sexual Orientation Counselor Competency Scale (SOCCS) -- This instrument measures the attitudes, skills, and knowledge of counselors who work with lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals.: http://bit.ly/SOCCS_inst
  • Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) -- a brief behavioral screening questionnaire for children and teens ages 3-16 that asks about 25 attributes, some positive and others negative.: http://bit.ly/SDQ_inst
  • Substance Abuse Attitude Survey (SAAS) -- measures medical student and physician/clinician attitudes towards various aspects of alcohol and drug misuse.: http://bit.ly/SAAS_inst
  • Suicide Attempt Self-injury Interview (SASII) -- used to assess the topography, context, and intent of suicidal and other self-injurious behaviors.: http://bit.ly/SASII_inst
  • Educational Practices Questionnaire --  a 16-item instrument using a five-point scale, was designed to measure whether four educational practices (active learning, collaboration, diverse ways of learning, and high expectations) are present in the instructor-developed simulation, and the importance of each practice to the learner. https://www.nln.org/education/teaching-resources/tools-and-instruments
  • Evidence-based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS) -- a measure of practitioner attitudes toward evidence-based treatments based on literature about dissemination of new technologies.: http://bit.ly/EBPAS_inst
  • The Simulation Design Scale (Student Version) - a 20-item instrument using a five-point scale, was designed to evaluate the five design features of the instructor-developed simulations used in the NLN/Laerdal study. The five design features include: 1) objectives/information; 2) support; 3) problem solving; 4) feedback; 5) fidelity. The instrument has two parts: one asks about the presence of specific features in the simulation, the other asks about the importance of those features to the learner. https://www.nln.org/education/teaching-resources/tools-and-instruments
  • Student Satisfaction and Self Confidence in Learning -- a 13-item instrument designed to measure student satisfaction (five items) with the simulation activity and self-confidence in learning (eight items) using a five-point scale. Reliability was tested using Cronbach's alpha: satisfaction = 0.94; self-confidence = 0.87: https://www.nln.org/education/teaching-resources/tools-and-instruments
  • Child Health and Illness Profile - Child Edition - Child Report Form (CHIP-CE/CRF) -- a generic self-report instrument to obtain reports from adolescents (11-17 years old) about their own health.  It was designed to identify systematic differences in health from subpopulations of adolescents, including the socioeconomically disadvantaged, and to assess the impact of health services interventions on health status.  It includes six domains that provide a comprehensive picture of health.  They are satisfaction, achievement, disorders, risks, discomfort, and resilience.  It was designed to describe the health of groups of adolescents and to evaluate changes in the health of groups of adolescents.  Each of the domains of health is amenable to health services intervention.  The computerized scoring program provides scores for the domains and the 20 sub-domains. For more information, please go to https://eprovide.mapi-trust.org/instruments/child-health-and-illness-profile-child-edition-child-report-form
  • The IDEA: Inventory of the Dimensions of Emerging Adulthood -- measures an adolescent's concept of their life stage. Citation information and instrument located here: http://www.webpages.ttu.edu/areifman/IDEA_instrument.htm
  • Pediatric Asthma Symptom Scale (RAND) -- both English and Spanish. To determine the frequency and severity of the asthma symptoms, add up the scores for each of the eight individual items: https://www.rand.org/health-care/surveys_tools/ped_asthma.html
  • Health and Illness Profile - Adolescent Edition (CHIP-AE) -- a generic self-report instrument to obtain reports from adolescents (11-17 years old) about their own health.  It was designed to identify systematic differences in health from subpopulations of adolescents, including the socioeconomically disadvantaged, and to assess the impact of health services interventions on health status.  It includes six domains that provide a comprehensive picture of health.  They are satisfaction, achievement, disorders, risks, discomfort, and resilience.  It was designed to describe the health of groups of adolescents and to evaluate changes in the health of groups of adolescents.  Each of the domains of health is amenable to health services intervention.  The computerized scoring program provides scores for the domains and the 20 sub-domains. For more information, please go to https://eprovide.mapi-trust.org/instruments/child-health-and-illness-profile-adolescent-edition
  • Pediatric Asthma Symptom Scale (RAND) -- both English and Spanish. To determine the frequency and severity of the asthma symptoms, add up the scores for each of the eight individual items: https://www.rand.org/health-care/surveys_tools/ped_asthma.html
  • Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL Measurement Model – RANDS) -- measuring health-related quality of life in both healthy children and adolescents and in those with acute and chronic health conditions: https://www.rand.org/health-care/surveys_tools/pedsql.html