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Instruments, Measures & Scales

This section will provide names of instruments that our research members are using in their studies to measure various concepts.

FOR CHILDREN (1-10)
Psychosocial:

  • Child Behaviour Checklist (Achenbach T)
  • WeeFim – The Functional Independence Measure for Children (Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation)

Stress/Anxiety/Depression:

  • Depression Scale – CES-D (Radloff L)
  • Percieved Stress Scale (Cohen S, Kamarck T & Mermelstein R)
  • Your Health and Well-Being (Medical Outcomes & QualityMetric Incoporated)
  • Self-Evaluation Questionnaire – State Trait Anxiety Inventory (Mind Garden)

Family:

  • Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale (FACES III) (Olson D, Portner J & Lavee Y)

Coping & Quality of Life:

  • Kidcope (Spirito A, Stark L, & Williams C)
  • SIBS (Simeon D & Favazza A)
  • PedsQL Family Impact Module (Parent Report) version 2.0 (Varni, JW)

Physical Health:

  • The Faces Pain Scale (von Baeyer C) Faces_Pain_Scale__Instructions.pdf and fps_multilngual-instructions.pdf
  • Lansky Score (Lansky S, List M, Lansky L, Ritter-Sterr C & Miller D)
  • Australia-Modified Karnofsky Performance Status Scale (Abernethy AP, Shelby-James T, Fazekas BS, Woods D, & Currow DC)
  • Memorial Sympton Assessment Scale (Collins J, Devine T, Johnson EA, Pinkerton CR, & Thaler HT)
  • PedsQL Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (Young Child Report ages 5-7)/(Child Report ages 8-12) versions 4.0 (Varni, JW)

Quality of Care:

  • PedsQL Healthcare Satisfaction Generic Module (Parent Report) version 3.0 (Varni JW)

Grief:

  • Texas Revised Inventory of Grief (TRIG) (Faschingbauer T, DeVaul R & Zisook S)

 

FOR ADOLESCENTS (11-18)
Psychosocial:

  • Youth Self Report (Achenbach T)
  • WeeFim – The Functional Independence Measure (Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation)

Stress/Anxiety/Depression:

  • Depression Scale – CES-D (Radloff L)
  • Percieved Stress Scale (Cohen S, Kamarck T & Mermelstein R)
  • Your Health and Well-Being (Medical Outcomes & QualityMetric Incoporated)
  • Self-Evaluation Questionnaire – State Trait Anxiety Inventory (Mind Garden)

Family:

  • Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale (FACES III) (Olson D, Portner J & Lavee Y)

Coping & Quality of Life:

  • Kidcope (Spirito A, Stark L, & Williams C)
  • SIBS (Simeon D & Favazza A)
  • PedsQL Family Impact Module (Parent Report) version 2.0 (Varni, JW)

Physical Health:

  • The Faces Pain Scale (von Baeyer C) Faces_Pain_Scale__Instructions.pdf and fps_multilngual-instructions.pdf
  • Lansky Score (Lansky S, List M, Lansky L, Ritter-Sterr C & Miller D)
  • Australia-Modified Karnofsky Performance Status Scale (Abernethy AP, Shelby-James T, Fazekas BS, Woods D, & Currow DC)
  • Memorial Sympton Assessment Scale (Collins J, Devine T, Johnson EA, Pinkerton CR, & Thaler HT)
  • PedsQL Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (Child Report ages 8-12)/(Teen Report ages 13-18) versions 4.0 (Varni, JW)

Quality of Care:

  • PedsQL Healthcare Satisfaction Generic Module (Parent Report) version 3.0 (Varni JW)

Grief:

  • Texas Revised Inventory of Grief (TRIG) (Faschingbauer T, DeVaul R & Zisook S)

 

FOR ADULTS
Stress/Anxiety/Depression:

  • Burden Scale (Noonan AE & Tennstedt SL)
  • Depression Scale – CES-D (Radloff L)
  • Percieved Stress Scale (Cohen S, Kamarck T & Mermelstein R)
  • Your Health and Well-Being (Medical Outcomes & QualityMetric Incoporated)
  • Self-Evaluation Questionnaire – State Trait Anxiety Inventory (Mind Garden)

Family:

  • Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale (FACES III) (Olson D, Portner J & Lavee Y)
  • Healthy Marriages – Quality of Marriage Index (Norton R)

Coping & Quality of Life:

  • Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI) (Tedeschi R & Calhoun L)
  • SIBS (Simeon D & Favazza A)

Physical Health:

  • PedsQL Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (Parent Report for Toddlers ages 2-4)/(Parent Report for Young Children ages 5-7)/(Parent Report for Children ages 8-12)/(Parent Report for Teens ages 13-18) versions 4.0 (Varni, JW)

Grief:

  • Grief and Mourning Status Interview and Inventory (GAMSII) (Rando TA)
  • Texas Revised Inventory of Grief (TRIG) (Faschingbauer T, DeVaul R & Zisook S)
  • Grief Pattern Inventory (Martin T & Doka K)
  • Hogan Grief Reaction Checklist (Hogan N, Greenfield D & Schmidt L)

A great link to find many Child Personality tests: http://www.yorku.ca/psycentr/tests/per_test.html