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NURS 414 Nursing Research: Research Databases and Journals

Formerly NURS 404 / 409 Nursing Research / Clinical Research Project

Searching the Journal Literature for Research Instruments

  • Search article databases and journals to find research instruments: scales, questionnaires, surveys, inventories and texts used for qualitative and quantitative research.
  • Note: journal articles may not include the entire research instrument.
  • Read through journal articles to determine whether the instrument was created by the authors or borrowed from another researcher
  • Scan the reference list to find other studies that might have used the instrument

Nursing Research Journals

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Journals available through EbscoHOST databases

Annual Review of Nursing Research 

International Nursing Review

Journal of Advanced Nursing (full text online)

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Journal of Nursing Research

Journal of Professional Nursing

Nurse Researcher

Nursing Inquiry

Nursing Research (print only)

Nursing Science Quarterly

Southern Online Journal of Nursing Research

Western Journal of Nursing Research (print only)

Journal Article Databases

Tips for Searching Databases for Research Instruments

CINAHL: for the best results, use the ADVANCED search option to search the database.

Check RESEARCH

Check PUBLICATION TYPE and select: Questionnaire or Research Instrument or Survey

Use Keywords such as: "questionnaire", "survey", "scale", or the name of the research instrument you would like to use.

 

HaPI - this is not a database of research instruments, rather it is an index of journal articles across many social science disciplines that use or refer to research instruments.  If an instrument does not have a name, the indexers supply a descriptive name.