Research Toolkit

Still learning how to best access and enlist peer-reviewed research? Overwhelmed by the volume of articles and topics? These tools will help you structure your review of the literature so that it is thorough, fruitful and efficient:

• Template for constructing an effective review of the literature
• Conducting a Systematic Review
• Evidence Based Medicine and the Literature Review

The Research Minute articles have been generously shared by Sandra Burge, Ph.D. Sandra is Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio (UTHSCSA). She has served as the Director of the RRNeT PBRN at UTHSCSA since 1997 and Director of the PBRN Resource Center at UTHSCSA since 2011. Dr. Burge is a frequent research collaborator with Drs. Schneider and Scherrer and other members of our department. We thank her for this resource, however, any personnel mentioned in the Research Minutes are with the University of Texas, not Saint Louis University.

Each of her "Research Minute" newsletters succinctly covers a different "how-to" topic in research. Check out each of these below for some great information and guidance. Please note any personnel mentioned in these newsletters are with the University of Texas and not affiliated with Saint Louis University.

• Research Design
• Graphic Findings
• Research Posters
• Spreadsheets
• Statistics 101
• Writing Research

A small library of surveys, tests and other tools for use in research, organized into broad categories. Some are copyrighted, others can be used freely. Copyrighted tools are marked as such. If you are using a copyrighted tool, please be sure to receive all appropriate permissions before using. Some links will take you directly to a .pdf of the research instruments. Others will take you to a page that includes the research instrument and instructional or other supplementary materials.

Chronic Disease:

• Diabetes Management Self-Efficacy Scale

Substance Use:

• Core Drug Survey (copyrighted)
• Drug Use Questionnaire
• Alcohol Effects Questionnaire
• Alcohol Outcome Expectancies Scale
• Alcohol and Drug Consequences Questionnaire
• Controlled Drinking Self-Efficacy Scale

Pain:

• Brief Pain Inventory

Mental Health:

• CES-D (Depression)
• PHQ2 (Depression)
• PHQ9 (Depression)
• Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale
• Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression
• GAD 7
• Beck Depression Inventory I
• Beck Depression Inventory II

Opioid Misuse:

• SOAPP
• DIRE Score

Miscellaneous:

• Active Neighborhood Checklist

• Clinical Research Appraisal Inventory (Copyrighted)

• Columbia Impairment Scale

• Food Frequency Questionnaire (Copyrighted)

• Interpersonal Support Evaluation List

• Medical Mistrust Survey (Group-based)

• Neighborhood Attributes Inventory

• Perceived Stress Scale (Copyrighted)

• Personal Behavior Checklist/ Fetal Alcohol Behavior Scale (Copyrighted)

• Pregnancy Related Behavior Scale (Copyrighted)

• Sexual Behavior Questionnaire

• Short-form Self-Regulation Questionnaire

• Work Performance Rating Scale

 

Public Data:

• Compendium of Publicly Available Data Sets and Other Data-Related Resources
• National Center for Health Statistics Research Data Center
• Health Services Research Information Central
• Add Health (National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health)
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
• National Medical Expenditure Survey

•  Institutional Review Board (IRB)

• Research Office