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Description		Health and Psychosocial Instruments features material on unpublished measurement tools discussed in the journal literature. This material includes questionnaires, interview schedules, tests, checklists, rating and other scales, coding schemes, and projective techniques. Over 2/3 of the tools are in medical and nursing areas such as pain measurement, quality of life assessment, and drug efficacy evaluation. In addition to medical measurement instruments, HaPI presents information about tests used in medically related disciplines including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech and hearing therapy. HaPI is not a database of the full text of actual tests, but citations to information about tests.
Dates covered		1985-present, with many earlier measures covered.
Updating frequency		Quarterly.
Sources		Global in scope, this database contains abstracts from hundreds of leading journals covering medicine, nursing, public health, health professions, psychology, social work, sociology, communication, organizational behavior, and education. Records for primary sources include ordering information through BMDS Instrument Delivery service, when available.
Type of coverage		Index to over 145,000 bibliographic citations, most of which include abstracts.
Print Counterpart or related resources		There is no print counterpart.
Provider		Producer and vendor: Behavioral Measurement Database Services(BMDS) Vendor or electronic presentation provider: Ovid Technologies, Inc.
Help		Detailed search help is available from the vendor. From the top right of the OVID search screen, click on the "Help" icon. Also available from the main search is an icon to limit searches to specific fields such as Primary Source and Secondary Source.