Research Instruments in the CINAHL Database
For each instrument the following information is available: author, description of test, year
developed, cited references, purpose, original population, question format, scoring,
psychometrics, how to obtain, copyright owner. A few instruments have the full text of the
instrument in the CINAHL database. Other instruments are available full text in the source
journal listed in the citation if the UT Library owns the journal. Or it can be ordered through ILS
if UT does not have the journal.
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ABI Distress and Coping Scale (ABIDCS)
Adapted Prayer Scale
Adherence Attitude Inventory (AAI)
Adolescent Coping Orientation for Problem Experiences (A-COPE)
Adolescent-Family Inventory of Life Events and Changes (A-FILE)
Adolescent Wisdom Scale
Advanced Mobility and Balance Scale (AMBS)
Affect Balance Scale
Ageism Survey
AIDS Knowledge and Attitudes Survey
Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST)
ALPHA Self-Report Questionnaire for Women
Antenatal Psychosocial Health Assessment (ALPHA)
Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales (AIMS2)
Assessment of Functional Monetary Skills (AFMS)
Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) Instrument
Associated Reaction Rating Scale (ARRRS)
Attitudes Towards the Homeless Questionnaire
Autism Diagnostic Inventory-Telephone Screening in Spanish (ADI-TSS)
Barriers to Implementing Advance Directives (BIAD)
Barthel Index (BI)
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Bech-Rafaelsen Melancholia Scale (BRMES)
Beck Depression Inventory, Revised Edition (BDI)
Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS)
BEM Sex Role Inventory (BSRI)
Bicycle Safety Questionnaire
Body Checking Questionnaire (BCQ)
Braden Q Scale
Braden Scale for Predicting Pressure Sore Risk
Brief Pain Inventory (BPI)
Brief Symptom Inventory™(BSI)
Bristol Activities of Daily Living Scale (BADLS)
Cancer Coping Questionnaire (CCQ)
Capacity Assessment Tool (CAT)
Caregiver Strain Index (CSI)
Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D Scale)
CHAMPS (Community Healthy Activities Model Program for Seniors) Physical Activity
Questionnaire for Older Adults
CHAMPS (Community Healthy Activities Model Program for Seniors) Physical Activity
Questionnaire for Older Adults (modified)
Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)
Childhood Asperger Syndrome Test (CAST)
Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) Screener
Chinese Drug Involvement Scale (CDIS)
Chinese-version Chronic Ear Survey (CCES)
Chronic Illness—Perception of Control (PC) Scale
Classification Tool
Colorado Behavioral Numerical Pain Scale (CBNPS)
Colorado Sex Offender Risk Scale
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Communication Aid/Device Attitudinal Questionnaire (CADAQ)
Communication Skills Attitude Scale (CSAS)
Community-Acquired Pneumonia Symptom Questionnaire (CAP-Sym)
Comorbidity Symptom Scale (CmSS)
Consumer Emergency Care Satisfaction Scale (CESS)
Consumer Emergency Care Satisfaction Scale (CECSS) Adapted Questionnaire
Continence Symptoms Assessment Form
Coping Health Inventory for Parents (CHIP)
Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ)
Critical Care Family Needs Inventory (CCFNI)
Death Anxiety Scale
Death Depression Scale (DDS)
Death Depression Scale-Revised (DDS-R)
Decisional Balance Instrument
The Dempster Practice Behaviors Scale (DPBS)
Denver II
Developmental Work Personality Scale (DWPS)
Diabetes Quality of Life Clinical Trial Questionnaire (DQLCTQ)
Diabetic Foot Ulcer Scale (DFS)
Dual Employed Coping Scales (DECS)
Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS)
EDIN Scale (Neonatal Pain and Discomfort Scale)
Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)
Effort Sense Rating Scale (ESRS)
End-of-Life Comfort Questionnaires
Enforced Social Dependency Scale (ESDS)
Epilepsy Medication and Treatment Complexity Index (EMTCI)
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Exercise of Self-Care Agency Scale
Expectations Regarding Aging (ERA-38) Survey
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised (EPQ-R)
Faces, Legs, Activity, Cry and Consolability (FLACC) Behavioral Pain Assessment Tool
Facilitation of Patient Involvement Scale (FPI)
Fair Representation of Diversity Criteria (FRDC) Tool
Fall Risk Assessment Tool
Family Attachment and Changeability Index 8 (FACI8)
Family Celebration Index (FCELEBI)
Family Coping Coherence Index (FCCI)
Family Coping Index (FAMCI)
Family Coping Inventory (FCI)
Family Crisis Oriented Personal Evaluation Scales
(F-COPES)
Family Distress Index (FDI)
Family Hardiness Index
Family Index of Regenerativity and Adaptation – General (FIRA-G)
Family Index of Regenerativity and Adaption – Military (FIRA-M)
Family Inventory of Life Events and Changes (FILE)
Family Inventory of Resources for Management (FIRM)
Family Member Well-being Index (FMWB)
Family Pressures Scale-Ethnic (FPRES-E)
Family Problem Solving Communication (FPSC)
Family Quality of Life Survey (FQoLS)
Family Schema-Ethnic (FSCH-E)
Family Time and Routines Index (FTRI)
Family Traditions Scale (FTS)
Ferrans and Powers Quality of Life Index (QLI)
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Foundational Value Scale (FVS)
Functional Assessment Inventory (FAI)
Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Hepatobiliary (FACT-Hep) Questionnaire
General Practitioner Assessment of Cognition (GPCOG)
General Comfort Questionnaire (GCQ)
Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS)
Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-5/15)
Geriatric Pain Measure (GPM)
Gosnell Pressure Sore Risk Assessment Scale (Gosnell Scale)
Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD)
Hayes and Lohse Depression Scale (HLDS)
Headache Needs Assessment (HANA) Survey
Health Outcomes Burn Questionnaire for Infants and Children 5 years of age and younger
Health Perceptions Questionnaire (HPQ)
Health Self-Determinism Index (HSDI)
Health Self-Determinism Index-Sexual (HSDI-S)
Heart Check
Hendrich Fall Risk Model (HFRM)
High Risk Discharge Assessment Instrument (HRDAI)
Home Health Care Nurses’ Job Satisfaction (HHNJS) Scale
How Are You? (HRU) (revised)
Impact of Event Scale (IES)
Impact on Participation and Autonomy Questionnaire (IPAQ)
Internal-External Control Scale (I-E scale)
Jalowiec Coping Scale (JCS)
Job Descriptive Index (JDI)
Karnofsky Performance Index (KPS)
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Knowledge Questionnaire
Labor Support Scale (LSS)
Leakage Index (LI)
La Monica-Oberst Patient Satisfaction Scale (LOPSS)
Lesbian Partner Abuse Scale-Revised (LE-PAS-R)
Levator Ani Function Index (LAFI)
Lowenstein Communication Scale (LCS)
M.D. Anderson Dysphagia Inventory (MDADI)
Manchester Respiratory Activities of Daily Living Questionnaire (MRADL)
Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (MCSDS)
Marwit-Meuser Caregiver Grief Inventory (MM-CGI)
Mary Starke Harper Aging Knowledge Exam (MSHAKE)
Massey Bedside Swallowing Screen
McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ)
Memorial Pain Assessment Card (MPAC)
Misener Nurse Practitioner Job Satisfaction Scale (MNP
Mishel Uncertainty in Illness Scale (MUIS)
Modified Functional Index Questionnaire (MFIQ)
Modified Rivermead Mobility Index (MRMI)
Modified Scoliosis Research Society Outcomes Instrument (MSRSI)
Morse Fall Scale
Multidimensional Health Locus of Control (MHLC) Scales: Forms A,B, and C
Multidemensional Pain Readiness to Change Questionnaire (MPRCQ)
NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS)
National Medical Management Forum Questionnaire
Neck Dissection Impairment Index (NDII)
Needs at the End-of-Life Care Screening Tool (NEST)
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Nijmegen Cochlear Implant Questionnaire (NCIQ)
Norbeck Social Support Questionnaire (NSSQ)
Nottingham Leisure Questionnaire (NLQ)
Nottinghham Leisure Questionnaire (NLQ)-Modified
Nurses’ Work and Client Outcomes Questionaire(NWCOQ)
Nursing Home Disabilities Instrument (NHDI)
Nursing Willingness Questionnaire (NWQ)
OARS Multidimensional Functional Assessment Questionnaire (OMFAQ)
Ohio’s Prevention Evaluation Project (PEP)
Organizational Climate Scale (OCS)
P4: A Self-Report Pain Intensity Measure
Paediatric Pan Assessment Tool
Pain Assessment for the Dementing Elderly (PADE)
Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia (PAINAD) Scale
Pain Attitudes Questionnaire (PAQ)
Parent Satisfaction Survey
Parent-Child Interaction Questionnaire-Revised (PACHIQ-R)
Parental Sun Protection Scales (PSPS)
Parenting Behaviors Questionnaire
Parents with Children in Foster Care Satisfaction Scale (PCFCSS)
Parkinson’s Disease Sleep Scale (PDSS)
Patient Empowerment Scale (PES)
Patient Perception of Hospital Experience with Nursing (PPHEN)
Patient-Rated Elbow Evaluation(PREE)
Patients’ Evaluation of the Quality of Diabetes Care (PEQD) Scale
Perlow Self-Esteem Scale (PSES)
Pediatric Healthquiz
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Personal Resource Questionnaire (PRQ-85)
PFPS Severity Scale (PSS)
Power as Knowing Participation in Change Tool (PKPCT)
Practitioner Fear of Youthful Clients (PFYC)
Prefracture Physical Function Questionnaire (PFPFQ)
Prison Attitude to Drugs scale (PAD)
Profile of Mood States, Revised (POMS)
Psychiatric Symptom Index
Psychosocial Adjustment to Illness Scale (PAIS)
Psychosocial Assessment Tool (PAT)
Quality Improvement Questionnaire
Quality of Partnership Instrument for Mothers (QOPI)
Quality Patient Care Scale (Qualpacs)
Quality-of-Care (QOC) Questionnaire
Questions on Life Satisfaction (FLZM)
Racial Climate Inventory (RCI)
Radiation Therapy Comfort Questionnaire (RTCQ)
Rating Scale for Nurse Led Consultation Software
Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale
Richards-Campbell Sleep Questionnaire (RCSQ)
Rivermead Mobility Index (RMI)
Role-Related Meaning Scale (RRMS)
Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale (RSES)
Satisfaction with Nursing Questionnaire (SNQ-10)
Schedule of Recent Experience (SRE)
Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) Instrument
Self-Directed Learning Readiness Scale (SDLRS)
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Self-Efficacy Labor Support Scale
Self-Esteem Inventory (SEI)
Self-Perceived Burden Scale
Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS)
Self-Rating Depression Scale (SRDS)
Sexual Abstinence Behavior Scale (SABS)
Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36)
Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire (SPMSQ)
Shortened Visuospatial Questionnaire (SVS)
SIGAM Mobility Grades Questionnaire
The Sickness Impact Profile (SIP)
Slater Nursing Competencies Rating Scale
Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS)
Social Support Index (SSI)
Stages of Change Instrument
Standardized Nordic Questionnaire
Stanford Presenteeism Scale (SPS-6)
State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)
STRATIFY (St. Thomas’s Risk Assessment Tool in Falling Elderly Inpatients) Risk
Assessment Tool
Survey to Assess Backpack Use and Neck and Back Pain in Seventh and Eighth Graders
Symptom Checklist-90-Revised™ (SCL-90-R)
Symptom Distress Scale (SDS)
The Injured Workers Survey
Tennessee Self-Concept Scale: Second Edition (TSCS:2)
12-Item MS Walking Scale (MSWS-12)
Unwillingness To Care For AIDS Patients Instrument
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Upper Extremity Functional Index (UEFI)
Urinary Incontinence and Frequency Comfort Questionnaire (UIFCQ)
Uterine Fibroid Symptom and Quality of Life Questionnaire (UFS-QOL)
Victorian Institute of Sport Assessment (VISA) Scale
Victorian Institute of Sport Assessment-Achilles Questionnaire (VISA-A)
Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WCQ)
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R)
Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised (WMS-R)
Western Ontario Rotator Cuff Incex (WORC)
Willingness to Accept Life-Sustaining Treatment (WALT)
Willingness to Care Scale (WTC)
Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale (FACES)
Young Adult Coping Orientation for Problem Experiences (YA-COPE)
Young Adult Social Support Index (YA-SSI)
Young Adult-Family Inventory of Life Events and Strains (YA-FILES)
Youth Coping Index (YCI)
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