HaPI: Searching the Health and Psychosocial Instruments database   Tags: hapi, instruments, tests  

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) is a database that provides access to information on approximately 15,000 measurement instruments (i.e. questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, coding schemes, rating scales, etc.) in the fields of health and psychosocial sciences. The database covers 1985 to date and is updated quarterly. NOTE: The full-text of the instruments are not included in the database; however, HaPI can be used to:

• Discover what instruments exist;
• Determine the availability of reliability and validity evidence;
• Track the history of an instrument over time;
• See what other instruments have already developed in your field of study;
• Locate ordering information for a known instrument.

For basic instructions on how to search EBSCO in general, see here. For searches specific to the HaPI database, read on.
Connect to HSL Databases. Select "HaPI: Health and Psychosocial Instruments" from the list.

Quick Hint:

• In the following examples, measurement tools (eg. Surveys, questionnaires, etc.) are referred to as "instruments".