Measuring Health: A Review of Quality of Life Measurement Scales by
This thoroughly revised and updated edition offers a comprehensive guide to measures of health and is an essential reference resource for all health professionals and students.
Health Measurement Scales: A Practical Guide to Their Development and Use by
Clinicians and those in health sciences are frequently called upon to measure subjective states such as attitudes, feelings, quality of life, educational achievement and aptitude, and learning style in their patients. This fifth edition of Health Measurement Scales enables these groups toboth develop scales to measure non-tangible health outcomes, and better evaluate and differentiate between existing tools.
Databases, such as CINAHL, Medline, PubMed, PsycInfo, and Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection are helpful in locating health assessment reviews, as well as validity and reliability studies.
Example: Use this strategy in Medline and PubMed to locate articles about various assessment measures combining the main topic, such as the shoulder, with MeSH terms such as these:
