Overview: Health Risk Assessment and Health Promotion Contract
Go to the website
https://www.virginiamason.org/home/body.cfm?id=149
and complete the Health Risk Assessment. You will NOT submit the online results of the HRA for grading. (The HRA will ask for some information such as blood pressure and cholesterol levels, but if you do not know that information, you may click "I don't know.")
For each section of the Health Risk Assessment in the document below, provide a substantial summary of your results from the HRA taken online. In each section's summary, be sure to include any additional information of your health and lifestyle that might play a role in your overall wellness.
You will contract to change/improve one health behavior during this course. Your Health Risk Assessment can give you guidance on your choice, but you do not have to choose to work on the area in which you scored lowest on your Health Risk Assessment.
Part of the contract requires you to evaluate your current "stage of change" according to the stages described by Zimmerman, Olsen, and Bosworth in the article, "A ‘Stages of Change' Approach to Helping Patients Change Behavior."
(www.aafp.org/afp/20000301/1409.html.)
You will be tracking your progress toward the goals in your contract by completing journal entries for four weeks, then analyze your motivation, successes, and obstacles in the final week of the course.
Objectives:
• Devise a personal Health Promotion contract to be used for the duration of the course.
• Discuss the Stages of Change model in relation to health behavior changes for others and self.
Health Risk Assessment
When you receive the results of your online Health Risk Assessment, use them (and any other information about your own health and lifestyle that play a role in your overall wellness) to summarize the results thoroughly in each section below. Summary of each section must be substantial and include details to receive credit.
Blood Pressure/Cholesterol/Diabetes
Weight
Food
Tobacco and Alcohol
Well Being
Activity
Heart Health
Health Promotion Contract
Your goals should be written in SMART goal format, meaning they should be Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timely. Please go to these two websites for more detailed information on SMART goal format:
http://www.cooperinstitute.org/2011/12/goal-setting-sample-tool/
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/top-teaching/2016/01/setting-almost-smart-goals-my-students
Identify one goal to work toward during this course, knowing that you will be journaling about your progress in your journaling assignment, four times a week for four weeks.
Attachment:- An example of a properly formatted SMART goal.docx