Measures in Health Psychology Portfolio

Measures in Health Psychology Portfolio S Wright, M Johnston & J Weinman

The Measures in Health Psychology Portfolio provides 12 themed booklets containing over 40 measures for behaviour and attitude to illness and healthcare. Each photocopiable unit consists of a broad selection of instruments carefully selected by the authors, together with data and details on administration, scoring and interpretation.

Purpose A comprehensive collection of measures of clients\’ behaviour and attitudes to illness and healthcare.

Contents:The Portfolio can be purchased as a Complete Set. Each booklet can also be bought individually.

Measures include:Pain and Pain Behaviours – McGill Pain Questionnaire; UAB PAIN Behaviour Scale; Beliefs about Pain Control Questionnaire; Pain Coping Strategies Questionnaire; Varni-Thompson Paediatric Pain Questionnaire.

Stress, Emotion and Life Events – The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale; General Health Questionnaire 12; Centre for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale; Perceived Stress Scale.

Coping – The COPE; Mental Adjustment to Cancer Scale.

Social Support – Short Form Social Support Questionnaire; Significant Others Scale.

Health Status and Health-Related Quality of Life – Perceived Health Status – Visual Analogue Scale & Verbal Rating Scales of Health Status; The Satisfaction with Life Scale, Acceptance of Illness Scale; Quality Adjusted Life Year Index; Illness Specific Quality of Life Measures – Arthritis Impact Measurement Scale; Rotterdam Symptom Checklist.

Illness, Symptoms, Disability and Recovery – The Barthel Index; The Functional Limitations Profile; Measuring Symptons.

Expectations, Experience and Evaluations of Health Care – Attitudes towards Doctors and Medicine Scale; Patient Request Form; Krantz Health Survey; Cancer Attitude Inventory; Prejudicial Evaluation and Social Interaction; Medical Interview Satisfaction Scale.

Individual and Demographic Differences – Framingham Type A Behaviour Pattern Measure; Framingham Anger Measure, Courtauld Emotional Control Scale; Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability; Positive and Negative Affect Schedule; Pennebaker Inventory of Limbic Languidness; Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale; Life Orientation Test.

Causal and Control Beliefs – Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale; Children’s Health Locus of Control Scale; Perceived Control of Insulin-Dependent Diabetes; Recovery Locus of Control Scale; Self-Efficacy Measurement – Specific Self-Efficacy Beliefs & Generalised Self-Efficacy Scale; Approaches to the Measurement of Health-Related Attributions.

Beliefs and Knowledge about Health and Illness – Health Value Scale; Model-Based Approaches: The Health Belief Model; Theory of Reasoned Action; Illness Representation Models; Health Knowledge.

Health-Related Behaviour – General Preventative Health Behaviours Checklist; Reported Health Behaviours Checklist; Self-Monitoring Techniques.