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The Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) database, produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services (BMDS), is the go-to information resource for students, researchers, and practitioners who are trying to locate social science and health measurement instruments. BMDS has been expanding the HaPI database to meet the growing demand of industry services by providing more information about questionnaires’ psychometric properties (e.g., reliability and validity), translations, and subscales.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) was created by Dr. Evelyn Perloff (1921-2022), who dedicated 50 years of her professional life to documenting and disseminating information about the wide range of concepts that researchers have measured in the psychological and health sciences, as well as the measurement properties of these research tools.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments began as a file cabinet of folders created by Dr. Perloff, a former University of Pittsburgh professor. HaPI has grown since then into an international resource which currently contains more than 232,000 records. The database has continued its steady growth and expansion, with around 5,000 new records added annually.
“Our mission is to promote the sharing of knowledge about measurement tools across disciplines,” said Dr. Linda Perloff, President of BMDS. “Most instruments are ‘buried’ in avalanches of published literature and are thus difficult to discover. Students, researchers, and practitioners in one field (such as psychology or sociology) may be unfamiliar with instruments in other fields (e.g., medicine, nursing, public health). That’s where the Health and Psychosocial Instruments database comes into the picture. By maintaining comprehensive information on instruments from diverse sources and disciplines, HaPI enables users to retrieve relevant measures they might not otherwise be aware of. Thus, HaPI helps researchers easily find…
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