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Research Tools

- Visit the Survey Instruments section of our Grantee Research page to view a variety of assessment tools and questionnaires developed by our grantees.

- The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued 187 guidelines for effective Web design and organization of material to help government, academic and other groups develop Web sites based on user research.

- Many journals will no longer publish results of randomized controlled trials if they are not registered prior to subject enrollment. Only trials that began enrollment after July 1, 2005 will be held to this requirement. Click here to read a statement from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

- The National Cancer Institute's (NCI) baseline Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS), represents survey data on Americans' need for, access to, and use of cancer-related information. Online tools are now available.

- Let the Public Health Partner's "electronic librarian" find the latest research or evidence-based strategies to help you achieve Healthy People 2010 objectives .

- RE-AIM is a systematic way for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to evaluate health behavior interventions. It can be used to estimate the potential impact of interventions on public health.

- Read the Human Subject Regulations Decision Charts created by the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP).


Helpful Links

- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has implemented an e-Mail Service that includes a News Digest. Click here to register.

- Health Behavior News Digest is published every weekday morning. It links to the top media stories from around the world. To register for daily updates, click here.

- The Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide) serves as a filter for scientific literature on specific health problems that can be large, inconsistent, uneven in quality, and even inaccessible.

- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a report, Health Behaviors of Adults: United States, 1999-2001.

- The United States Department of Health & Human Services has issued a statement entitled Research Repositories, Databases, and the HIPAA Privacy Rule.

- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy, a free, peer-reviewed online journal on chronic disease.

- The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) has compiled an online library. Click here to visit the collection of eHealth resources.

- The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) publishes a free online, peer-reviewed research journal, Perspectives in Health Information Management (PHIM).