Survey Resources - EPID 7160 - Survey Methodology: Course Guide

Sources: Test and Measurements

PsycINFO
Behavioral science and mental health related literature, 1800s - present. Search the Thesaurus in PsycINFO. Example: Measurement - (Many narrower terms can be selected)
PsycTESTS (American Psychological Association PsycNET)
Full content of psychological tests and measures, as available full bibliographic records and descriptive summaries of tests in each record descriptive summaries of commercially available tests with links to the publisher
Mental Measurements Yearbook
Descriptive information about tests--not the full text--of actual tests. Provides reviews about more than 3,000 timely, consumer-oriented tests.

All MMY entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts.
Health & Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)
Information about behavioral measurement instruments abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences, psychosocial sciences, industrial/organizational behavior and education.

Records provide information on questionnaires, interview schedules, vignettes/scenarios, coding schemes, rating and other scales, checklists, indexes, tests, projective techniques, and where to find or order the testing instrument.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
If the full text Dissertation is available on a topic of interest, the research instrument/s will generally be included in appendices.
ERIC (EBSCO)
ERIC provides options to search for terms such as measurement, questionnaire, pain measurement, surveys, or a specific test instrument. Under "Search Options" select "Test/Questionnaires" in the Publication Type field.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for many journals indexed in CINAHL.
EMBASE
EMBASE (Excerpta Medica) is a comprehensive bibliographic database that covers the worldwide literature on biomedical and pharmaceutical fields
PubMed
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Millions of citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and eBooks. Click on TU LINK within a record to explore full text options.

Health Literacy Tool Shed
An online database of health literacy measures. The site contains information about measures, including their psychometric properties, based on a review of the peer-reviewed literature

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The Tool Shed includes the most common type of validation information available in research published to date. However, before selecting a tool, we suggest you contact the author(s) of the tool (identified in the Tool Shed), or read the full paper and contact the corresponding author.

Survey terms and search strategies

Basic keyword search strategy for any database: Topic AND (survey OR instrument) AND (reliability OR validity OR development)

Try evaluation studies as an "article type" limit

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Search CINAHL Headings for more vocabulary.

Select "Research Instrument" from the "Publication Type" box in the "limit" section and put in appropriate subject or keywords.
EMBASE
Use Filters for "study type" in Session Results. See methodology, questionnaire, etc.

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Browser
Controlled vocabulary used for indexing articles for MEDLINE/PubMed. Also used in the Library Catalog.

Expand your vocabulary using MeSH headings:

Questionnaires
Psychological tests
Psychometrics
Process assessment (health care)
Outcome and process assessment (health care)
Aptitude tests
Language tests
Neuropsychological tests
Personality tests

PsycINFO Thesaurus (2020)
Search the Thesaurus in PsycINFO. Measurment: Conceptually broad term referring to the process and tools used in assessment of human subjects. Use specific test names or procedures if possible.
PsycINFO Thesaurus (2020)
Search the Thesaurus in PsycINFO. Measurment: Conceptually broad term referring to the process and tools used in assessment of human subjects. Use specific test names or procedures if possible.

Sociological Abstracts
The Online Thesaurus is in the Search Tools Tab. Useful thesaurus terms might be:

Attitude measures
Interviews
Interview schedules
Items (measures)
Mail surveys
Measures (instruments)
Personality measures
Questionnaires
Scales
Surveys
Tests

HSRR (Health Services and Sciences Research Resources)

Information about research datasets and instruments/indices employed in Health Services Research, Behavioral and Social Sciences and Public Health with links to PubMed.

NICHSR: National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology

Surveys in PubMed@TU

PubMed
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Millions of citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and eBooks. Click on TU LINK within a record to explore full text options.

Surveys referred to within the text: PubMed

Medical Subiect Headings (MESH: the thesaurus database)

Enter ‘survey’

What is the indexed term, ‘Surveys or Questionnaires'

1. Read the definition of the term to make sure it is correct for what you want to find (an article about a survey).
2. Select the subheading for Standards
3. Add to Search Builder

Find the term, ‘flu’

What is the indexed term? (‘Human Influenza)

Add to Search Builder box

Search PubMed

Locate an article about a survey

Select ‘Display options’
- Change the default ‘Summary’ to ‘Abstract’
- Change the default “Most Recent’ to ‘Best Match’
Scan the abstracts for any expression which describes a survey
- HINT: Scroll to the MESH terms section and open. Notice the MESH terms used, an indication of why the article was found out of @30M
Select article titles
Open the Green TULink to read the article

PubMed Tutorials
My NCBI
Create a My NCBI Account to save your searches and selected citations.

Surveys in PsycInfo

Tests and Measures: APA
Instructions for how to search for tests and measures in PsycInfo

Surveys in CINAHL

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for many journals indexed in CINAHL. Select "Research Instrument" from the "Publication Type" box in the "limit" section and combine with appropriate subject or keywords

EMBASE - filter by study type

Filter search results by Study type to view various data collection methods used, such as questionnaires.

EMBASE
EMBASE scope includes in-depth coverage of drug research (pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology), with additional emphasis on basic biological and human research, health policy and management, biotechnology, biomedical engineering

EMBASE video tutorials

ERIC - survey publication types

Limit to Tests & Questionnaires using the Publication Type search option in ERIC

ERIC (EBSCO)
The Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC) provides full text of more than 2,200 digests, and citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational and education-related journals. Coverage from 1966-present.

Finding Surveys and Questionnaires

In some cases the actual questionnaire or survey is not published with the article, but referred to within the text.

In the bibliography, find the reference to the survey or questionnaire itself, or to the original article where the instrument was published.

Search for the name of the instrument.

Some instruments are not free. They can be purchased from the developer.

Conduct an article search in a bibliographic database on the topic of interest and add in the keywords: survey* or questionnaire*

Finding Published and Unpublished Testing Instruments
The APA provides guidance in using available resources to find psychological tests. Answers to frequently asked questions are provided in the FAQ