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Measures Guide for Youth Tobacco Research
This guide is a resource for anyone researching youth tobacco use or intervening with adolescent tobacco users. It will help researchers achieve consistent measurements across studies for describing smoking patterns, establishing inclusion and exclusion criteria for participation, measuring potentially important mediators and moderators of treatment outcomes, and measuring tobacco use outcomes.
Each measure is briefly described, with details about the target population, administrative issues, scoring information, psychometrics, clinical utility of the instrument, research applicability, copyright/cost issues, references, authorship, and author's contact information.
The guide now includes 25 measures under the following categories: advertising receptivity, beliefs and expectancies, smoking susceptibility, dependence, friends/family, mood, problems, smoking behavior, stressors, temptations to smoke, validity of self-report, and self-efficacy.
Constructs and Measures for Health Behavior
This effort aims to develop a web-based resource for health behavior researchers in public health, health communications, nursing, and psychology that will define major health behavior constructs, describe measures that assess these constructs, and provide information on the theoretical background, historical development, psychometrics, and common use of these measures.
NIH Behavior Change Consortium (BCC) Measures
In order to encourage cross-project collaboration and coordinate the outcome data collected, several measures have been developed by BCC workgroups for use by each BCC project. Measures are currently available for demographics, physical activity, smoking, nutrition, and motivational interviewing.
Health Maintenance Consortium Measures
Texas A&M University School of Rural Public Health's Resource Center provides a summary of measures being examined by multiple sites in the Health Maintenance Consortium. It also provides recommendations for common demographic, behavioral, and cost measures.
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