Announcing our 2024 HaPI Measurement Scholarship Recipient
Behavioral Measurement Database Services (BMDS) is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2024 HaPI Measurement Scholarship. This scholarship provides a $500 award to a U.S.-based graduate student in the field of health or psychosocial science (e.g., psychology, counseling, sociology, social work, nursing, public health) who is in their 2nd year or beyond. The scholarship funds […]
Announcing our 2023 HaPI Measurement Scholarship Recipient
Behavioral Measurement Database Services (BMDS) is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2023 HaPI Measurement Scholarship. The scholarship provides a $500 award to a U.S.-based graduate student in the field of health or psychosocial science (e.g., psychology, counseling, sociology, social work, nursing, public health) who is in their 2nd year or beyond. The scholarship funds […]
Announcing our 2020 HaPI Measurement Scholarship Recipients!
Behavioral Measurement Database Services (BMDS) is pleased to announce the two recipients of the 2020 HaPI Measurement Scholarship. Each scholarship provides a $500 award to a U.S.-based graduate student in the field of health or psychosocial science (e.g., psychology, counseling, sociology, social work, nursing, public health) who is in their 2nd year or beyond. The scholarship […]
What Really Matters When Using Psychosocial Measurement Tools
Fred B. Bryant, Ph.D. Loyola University Chicago When researchers or practitioners need to find a way to measure a particular variable or outcome in their work, they look for a measurement instrument that has both reliability and validity. But what exactly does it mean for a measurement instrument to be “reliable” or “valid,” why do reliability […]
The Necessity of Measurement in Everyday Life
Fred B. Bryant, Ph.D. Loyola University Chicago Modern society simply could not exist without measurement. Twenty-first century civilization is inconceivable without the indispensable measurement tools on which everyday life depends. Time, size, distance, speed, direction, weight, volume, temperature, pressure, force, sound, light, energy—these are among the physical properties for which humans have developed accurate measures, […]
The History, Prevalence, and Measurement of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Volume 12 – No 2 – Spring 2017 Leeza Struwe, Ph.D., MSN, RN Assistant Professor of Nursing & Marlene Z. Cohen, Ph.D., RN, FAAN Professor and Kenneth E. Morehead Endowed Chair in Nursing University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Nursing Abstract Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has evolved from an unrecognized sequela of the battlefield […]