Table 1.
Instruments, domains, and resources included in geriatrics research instrument library.
| Domain | Instrument | Copyright status |
|---|---|---|
| Anxiety (8) | Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-Item Scale (GAD7) | P |
| Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) | K | |
| Symptom Checklist 90-Revised (SCL-90-R) | K | |
| Geriatric Mental State Examination (GMSE) | U | |
| Goldberg Anxiety and Depression Scale (GADS) | U | |
| Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) | K | |
| Worry Scale (WS) | U | |
| Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI) | K | |
| Caregiver burden (3) | Preparedness for Caregiving Scale | U |
| Caregiver strain index (CSI) | K | |
| Modified Caregiver Strain Index (MCSI) | K | |
| Delirium (11) | Confusion Assessment Method (CAM) | K |
| Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale (RASS) | K | |
| Confusion Assessment Method for ICU | K | |
| The Time and Change Test | U | |
| Delirium Observation Screening Scale (DOSS) | U | |
| Nursing Delirium Screening Checklist (NuDESC) | U | |
| Memorial Delirium Assessment Scale (MDAS) | K | |
| Delirium Rating Scale (DRS) | U | |
| Single Question in Delirium (SQiD) | U | |
| Delirium Detection Score (DDS) | U | |
| 3-Minute Confusion Assessment Method (3D-CAM) | K | |
| Dementia (26) | Modified Blessed Dementia Rating Scale | U |
| Clock Drawing Task | P | |
| Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE): Telephone Version | K | |
| Thurstone Word Fluency Test | U | |
| Hopkins Verbal Learning Test Revised | K | |
| Trail Making Test | P | |
| Delirium Rating Scale-Revised-98 Face-to-Face | K | |
| Modified Mini-Mental State [3MS] Examination | K | |
| Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) In person | K | |
| Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT) | K | |
| Wechsler Digit Span Test | U | |
| Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline (Short Form) | K | |
| Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICS) | K | |
| Short Portable Mental Status | K | |
| MINI-COG | K | |
| Memory Impairment Screen (MIS) | K | |
| Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status Modified (TICSM) | U | |
| Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) | K | |
| Abbreviated Mental Test (AMT) | K | |
| Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in Elderly (IQCODE) | K | |
| Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination III (ACE-III) | K | |
| General Practitioner Assessment of Cognition (GPCOG) | K | |
| Verbal Fluency (VF) | U | |
| Memory Impairment Screen by Telephone (MIS-T) | U | |
| Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test | K | |
| Gait Speed Dual Task Test | U | |
| Depression (12) | Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CEDS)-20 | P |
| 30-Item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-30) | P | |
| 15-Item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15) | P | |
| The Beck Depression Inventory II | K | |
| Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2) | P | |
| The Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD/HAM-D) | K | |
| The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) | P | |
| Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology (QID-SR-16) | K | |
| Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-10) 10-Item | U | |
| Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-4) 4-Item | U | |
| Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CESD-10) 10-Item | U | |
| Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) | K | |
| Frailty (9) | FRAIL Scale | U |
| Gill Frailty Measure | U | |
| Frailty Assessment Calculator | K | |
| Vulnerable Elders Survey | P | |
| Simplified Women’s Health Initiative Frailty Phenotype (sWHI) | U | |
| Clinical Frailty Scale | K | |
| Frailty/Vigor assessment | U | |
| Brief Frailty Instrument | U | |
| Winograd Screening Instrument | U | |
| General Health Status/Quality of Life (7) | Missoula-Vitas Quality of Life Index_Version 15R | K |
| SF-12 Health Survey | K | |
| Missoula-Vitas Quality of Life Index_Version 25R | K | |
| The Euro QOL Five Dimensions Questionnaire (EQ-5D) | K | |
| SF-36v2 Health Survey | K | |
| Quality of Well-Being Scale (QWB) | K | |
| Quality of Well-Being Scale: Self-Administered (QWB-SA) | K | |
| Health behaviors (3) | The Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST) | P |
| The CAGE Questionnaire (Alcoholism Screen) | P | |
| The Self-Administered Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (SMAST) | P | |
| Hearing (6) | Whispered Voice Test | U |
| Hearing Handicap Inventory for Elderly (HHIE) | U | |
| Finger Rub Test | U | |
| Watch Tick Test | U | |
| Single Question Screening | U | |
| Hearing Handicap Inventory for Elderly Screening Version (HHIE-S) | U | |
| Medical comorbidity (23) | Burden of Illness Score for Elderly Persons | U |
| The WOMAC (Western Ontario and McMaster Universities) Osteoarthritis Index | K | |
| Cumulative Index Illness Rating Scale (CIRS) | U | |
| Geriatric Index of Comorbidity | U | |
| The High Risk Diagnoses for the Elderly Scale | U | |
| The APACHE III Prognostic System | K | |
| Charlson Index | U | |
| APACHE II: Acute physiology and chronic health evaluation | U | |
| The Index of Coexistent Diseases (ICED) | U | |
| Medication-Based Disease Burden Index | U | |
| Functional Comorbidity Index (FCI) | U | |
| American Thoracic Society Division of Lung Disease Questionnaire (ATS-DLD-78A) | U | |
| Elixhauser Comorbidity Index | U | |
| Multimorbidity-Weighted Index (MWI) | U | |
| Adjusted Clinical Groups (ACG) System | K | |
| Bayliss Disease Burden | K | |
| Chronic Disease Score (CDS) | U | |
| Disease Count | U | |
| Duke Severity of Illness (DUSOI) Index | K | |
| Hierarchical Coexisting Conditions (HCCs) | U | |
| Nursing Home Multimorbidity Matrix | U | |
| Seattle Index of Comorbidity (SIC) | U | |
| Self-Administered Comorbidity Questionnaire (SCQ) | K | |
| Medication adherence (11) | Dexterity Test | U |
| Everyday Cognition Battery | K | |
| Functional Limitations Assessment | U | |
| Medication Management Test | U | |
| Medication Regimen Adherence Capacity Test | U | |
| Observed Tasks of Daily Living (OTDL) | K | |
| Reading/Comprehension and Task Performance Tool | U | |
| Structured Assessment of Independent Living Skills (SAILS) | U | |
| Self-Administration of Medication Tool | U | |
| Self-Medication Risk Assessment Instrument | U | |
| Timed Activities of Daily Living (TIADL) | U | |
| Other instrument libraries (15) | ASCQ-Me: Adult Sickle Cell Quality of Life Measurement Information System | N |
| CMS Data Element Library (DEL) | N | |
| COSMIN (COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments) | N | |
| ePROVIDE | N | |
| Family Caregiver Alliance: National Center on Caregiving | N | |
| Johns Hopkins Frailty Instruments | N | |
| Neuro-QoL (Quality of Life in Neurological Disorders) | N | |
| NIH Public Health Emergency and Disaster Research Response (DR2) | N | |
| NIH toolbox | N | |
| PhenX toolkit | N | |
| PROMIS: Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System | N | |
| Quality of Life Resources: American Thoracic Society | N | |
| Rehabilitation Measures Database | N | |
| Rehabilitation Measures Database—Additional Resources | N | |
| URI Psychological Measures—Cancer Prevention Research Center | N | |
| Pain (5) | McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) | K |
| The West Haven-Yale Multidimensional Pain Inventory | P | |
| The Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) | K | |
| McGill Pain Questionnaire Short Form (SF-MPQ) | K | |
| Numeric Pain Rating Scale (NPRS) | K | |
| Physical activity/Performance (15) | The Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly (PASE) | K |
| The Berg Balance Scale | U | |
| 6-Minute walk test | P | |
| The physical performance test | K | |
| EPESE Short Physical Performance Battery | U | |
| 400-Meter walk test | U | |
| Yale Physical Activity Survey (YPAS) | K | |
| 400 M walk-fast paced | U | |
| CHAMPS Activities Questionnaire for Older Adults II | K | |
| Performance Oriented Assessment of Mobility (POMA) | U | |
| Nagi Scale of Physical Performance (mobility) | U | |
| Fast 23-The Fitness Arthritis and Seniors Trial | U | |
| Measure of Older Sedentary Time (MOST) | U | |
| Grip strength test | U | |
| Three minute walk test | U | |
| Physical disability (19) | The Functional Status Index | U |
| Barthel Index (BI) | K | |
| Guttman Scale of Functional Health | U | |
| OARS Multilevel Functional Assessment Questionnaire (OMFAQ) | K | |
| Falls Efficacy Scale (FES)-10 Category | P | |
| Lawton and Brody Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale (LB-IADL) | K | |
| Fillenbaum Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) Measure | U | |
| Katz Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (ADL) | K | |
| Physical Self-Maintenance Scale (PSMS) | K | |
| Physical Self-Maintenance Scale-Self-Rated Version (MAI) | K | |
| Pepper Assessment Tool for Disability (PAT-D) | U | |
| Functional Status Questionnaire (FSQ) | U | |
| Late-Life Function and Disability Instrument (LLFDI) | K | |
| Rosow-Breslau Functional Health Scale (RBFHS) | U | |
| Short Form of the Late-Life Function and Disability Instrument (SF-LLFDI) | U | |
| NHATS Activities of Daily Living Measure | U | |
| SF-36v2 Health Survey (Physical Function Items) | K | |
| Brief Disability Questionnaire (BDQ) | U | |
| Groningen Activity Restriction Scale (GARS) | P | |
| Resilience (1) | Resilience Scale | K |
| Sleep (7) | Insomnia Severity Index | K |
| The Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) | K | |
| Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index | K | |
| Functional Outcomes of Sleep Questionnaire | K | |
| Consensus Sleep Diary | K | |
| OSA50 | K | |
| International Restless Legs Syndrome Scale | K | |
| Social support (5) | The Social Support Questionnaire | K |
| Perceived Support Scale | U | |
| The Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey | K | |
| MacArthur Community Study of Aging: Social Support Battery | U | |
| Duke Social Support and Stress Scale (DUSOCS) | K | |
| Vision (3) | Contrast Sensitivity: Pelli-Robson Chart | K |
| Near Vision-Rosenbaum Card | P | |
| Snellen Eye Chart | P |
P = public Domain; K = copyright Known; U = copyright Unknown; N = not applicable.