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 what they need and avoid ‘reinventing the wheel.’”
Today, the Health and Psychosocial Instruments database has subscribers in top colleges and universities, medical schools, VA centers and other government agencies, hospital systems, and research organizations worldwide. The goal of the database is to make it easier for students and researchers to find questionnaires, interviews, surveys, and other tests. The HaPI resource can give students and faculty a cutting-edge advantage for their research projects, theses, dissertations, investigations, and grant proposals.
The HaPI database offers critical information about what individual instruments are designed to assess. Moreover, researchers can learn about response formats, sample items, psychometric properties, and much more. HaPI provides researchers with access to a vast, unparalleled selection of measurement tools, thus helping them to enhance the quality, reliability, and validity of their measurement techniques.
“At Behavioral Measurement Database Services, our goal is to provide a comprehensive and convenient resource for researchers,” stated Dr. Perloff. “We offer a step-by-step guide on accessing research tools in the HaPI database. The database is available for researchers through the trusted platforms of Ovid Technologies or EBSCOhost. These leading vendors offer HaPI through subscriptions to university libraries, medical schools, and medical systems worldwide.”
Those interested can visit https://www.bmdshapi.com/hapi-database/ to read more about the database, and also opt for a 30-day trial through either vendor, to learn more about the wealth of information available through HaPI.
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