Pittsburgh, PA – July 25th, 2023 – Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) is a bibliographic database that contains over 232,000 records providing detailed, comprehensive information about health and psychosocial measurement tools across diverse disciplines and professions. For nearly four decades, HaPI has been the premier instrument database for behavioral measurement instruments in the fields of medicine, nursing, psychology, public health, social work, counseling, communication, and sociology. The HaPI database is produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services (BMDS).
BMDS will be inviting applications for a $500 merit-based HaPI Measurement Scholarship, to be awarded up to twice a year to selected graduate students, to support their master’s thesis, dissertation or other research in the health or psychosocial sciences.
BMDS is now inviting applications for a $500 merit-based HaPI Measurement Scholarship, to be awarded up to twice a year to selected graduate students, to support their master’s thesis, dissertation or other research in the health or psychosocial sciences. Any U.S.-based graduate student in the health or psychosocial science fields (e.g., psychology, counseling, sociology, social work, nursing, public health) who is in their 2nd year or beyond is eligible to apply for a HaPI Measurement Scholarship. The amount of the award is $500.00. Up to two awards will be given per year.
Examples of research projects that the scholarship is intended to fund include studies designed to:
- Refine, modify or shorten an existing instrument
- Evaluate the psychometric properties of an instrument
- Translate or adapt an existing instrument for use in a particular culture in which it has not been used before
- Adapt an existing instrument for use in a new setting (e.g., elementary school, outpatient clinic, hospital, community center, nursing home), a new population (e.g., children, the elderly), or for a specific disorder or condition
- Develop an instrument to assess a construct that has not been measured before
- Develop a new measurement method (e.g., a physiological, projective, observational, or behavioral measure)
Any U.S.-based graduate student in the health or psychosocial science fields (e.g., psychology, counseling, sociology, social work, nursing, public health) who is in their 2nd year or beyond is eligible to apply for a HaPI Measurement Scholarship. The amount of the award is $500.00. Up to two awards will be given per year.
For submission guidelines, applicants can read more information at https://www.bmdshapi.com/hapi-scholarship-application/.
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