Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
The HaPI database contains information on research instruments, (survey, interviews, rating scales, questionnaires, etc.)
While this database contains a wealth of information on research instruments, you will not find the actual instrument in HaPI. You will be able to:
- Find information on an instrument
- Determine the availability of reliability and validity evidence
- Discover the history of an instrument
- locate ordering information for a particular known instrument
Like CINAHL, when you do a search, you will generate a very similar looking results page. However, there are some difference to consider:
If you find a citation to a study referencing or using an instrument of interest to you, you will have to track down the full text citation provided in the record.
Some Helpful Searching Tips
To help narrow down your search, the following are the most helpful indexes when focusing on a search.
- ME Measure - indexes terms describing the variable the instrument is intended to measure.
- ST Subscale - indexes terms describing the variable measured by an instruments's sub-scales.
- This is included in they keyword searching, meaning a keyword search will automatically search this field
- AC Acronym - helpful if you know the acronym of a specific instrument you are interested in findings.