Pittsburgh, PA, 10/25/2022 /SubmitMyPR/
The Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) database, produced by behavior measurement database services (BMDS), is the information resource for students, researchers, and practitioners trying to find social science and health measurement tools. BMDS has expanded the HaPI database to meet the growing demand from industry services by providing more information on the psychometric properties of questionnaires (e.g. reliability and validity), translations and subscales.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) was developed by Dr. Evelyn Perloff (1921-2022), who devoted 50 years of her professional life to documenting and disseminating information about the wide range of concepts measured by researchers in the psychological and health sciences. as well as the measurement properties of these research tools.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments began as a filing cabinet of folders designed by Dr. Perloff, a former University of Pittsburgh professor. HaPI has since grown into an international resource, currently containing more than 232,000 records. The database has continued its steady growth and expansion, with approximately 5,000 new records being added annually.
“Our mission is to promote the cross-disciplinary exchange of knowledge about measurement instruments,” said Dr. Linda Perloff, President of BMDS. “Most instruments are ‘buried’ in avalanches of published literature and are therefore difficult to discover. Students, researchers, and practitioners in one specialty (e.g., psychology or sociology) may be unfamiliar with tools in other specialties (e.g., medicine, nursing, public health). This is where the Health and Psychosocial Instruments database comes in. By managing comprehensive information on instruments from different sources and disciplines, HaPI enables users to retrieve relevant measures that they might otherwise not be aware of…
