Guides & Bibliographies

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)

Introduction

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) provides information about measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychology, sociology, social work, political science, urban studies, and other social sciences including organizational behavior. Published by the Behavioral Measurement Database Services, and updated regularly since 1985, HaPI assists researchers, practitioners, educators, administrators, and evaluators, including students, to identify measures needed for research studies, grant proposals, client/patient assessment, class papers/projects, theses/dissertations, and program evaluation. HaPI provides a means of locating a variety of instruments, and includes citations of journal articles and book chapters as far back as 1916.

HaPI is available to current UT Arlington Faculty, and UT Arlington Students on the web at this address:

eresource.uta.edu/cgi-bin/db-hapi.cgi

Searching

A truncation symbol in Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) is a dollar sign ($), and when this symbol is put at the end of a root word, the database will be searched for all possible endings of that word.

Two Boolean operators that are important in finding information are AND and OR. The AND is used to connect two different concepts and the OR is used between concepts that are synonymous. It is critical to put parentheses around a search expression that contains an OR. Here is an example:

depress$ AND (elder$ OR older adult$)

The first part of this statement will find material about depression. The second part will look for the words "elderly or elders" or "older adults". The AND then links the first set with the second. This should be an effective way to look for measurement instruments related to depression among the elderly.

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