Where can I find free surveys, questionnaires, or other research instruments?
Provides links to surveys in Spanish and English with links to information about reliability, validity, and scoring when available.
The Australian Centre on Quality of Life (ACQol) provides evidence-based measures on quality of life.
University of New Mexico's Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addictions instruments are in Spanish and English.
Research instruments for pain, quality of life, and end of life.
Links to tools to study falls risk, sleepiness, caregiver burden, and other research issues for elderly patients.
There is no charge to use these questionnaires for student projects. Provides links to instruments, validity and reliability articles, and scoring criteria.
Provided by the Fetzer Institute in collaboration with the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health.
Grid-Enabled Measures (GEM) - National Cancer Institute (team registration required) GEM is a dynamic, interactive website that contains behavioral and social science measures organized by theoretical constructs. Registered teams can search for a construct (e.g., anxiety, depression), see a definition of the construct, view its associated theoretical foundation, and download different measures of the construct. The user can also search for a measure and see attributes of that measure (e.g., definition, target population, author, reliability, validity), including the associated construct.
These tests are available for free for student use. Information about validity and reliability is not included students will need to verify and evaluate these tests for themselves.
These surveys and tools are public documents available for free when used for non-commercial purposes. These are organized by broad topic area.
"With over 20 years of experience developing, adapting, and testing self-administered scales related to chronic disease in English and Spanish for research subjects with chronic diseases, SRMC has you covered when it comes to evaluating our programs. These scales are here for you to use in your own research at no cost and without permission, thanks to funding from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)."
A database of instruments and assessments by Shirley Ryan Ability Lab focused on measuring physical rehabilitation outcomes. Freely available to use thanks to funding from NIDRR.
From Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma) .
Sponsored by the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute at the University of Washington, this resource provides links to instruments for screening and assessment.
Provides a number of tools ("Online Tools") to assess weight bias, intervention effectiveness, scales to measure attitudes and beliefs about obesity. Includes scoring information and complete citation for each tool.