The VA Pressure Ulcer Resource (VA PUR) App is designed to help Veterans and their Caregivers learn about preventing and taking care of existing pressure ulcers/injuries. The VA PUR App is an easy-to-use tool that allows you to prevent, understand and track pressure ulcers/injuries. The app also provides access to other useful resources to help manage your daily care.

Features:

• Create journal entries to track your pressure ulcers/injuries
• Set reminders to move, eat and take medications
• Get background information about ulcers/injuries, and tips for daily care and prevention
• Watch videos to learn about pressure ulcers/injuries and safely repositioning
• Create a list of questions to ask in your next appointment
• Get immediate help and locate nearby medical facilities

MOVE!^® Coach is a weight management app for Veterans, service members, their families, and others who want to lose weight. This 16-week program guides the participants to achieve success with weight loss and management through education and use of tools in an easy and convenient way. Participants can monitor and receive feedback regarding their progress with weight, diet, and exercise goals.

Features:

• Self-Management Modules – Build weight management skills through maintaining a healthy diet and staying active. Each module contains specific activities and worksheets as well as a summary. Complete one module per week over a 16-week period.
• Trackers – Keep a daily weight diary and track your progress on dietary, physical activity and weight loss goals.
• Tools – Use Calculation Tools to calculate your Body Mass Index (BMI), exercise intensity, calories burned, and activity-to-step conversions. Use Manage Stress Tools to keep your mental health on the right track.
• Support – Share your progress on social media, challenge your friends to build healthier habits, and read success stories from other MOVE! Coach users.
• Resources – Access additional information on weight management, nutrition and other health resources.

If you are a Veteran or Servicemember who served in the Southwest Asia theater of operations after August 2, 1990, or in Djibouti, Africa or Afghanistan after September 11, 2001, you are eligible to participate in the Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry.

For instructions to save an icon to your home screen visit https://mobile.va.gov/saving-va-mobile-app-home-screen.

The Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry is an online database of health information from Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation New Dawn (OEF/OIF/OND) or 1990-1991 Gulf War Veterans and Servicemembers collected through a questionnaire about exposures to airborne hazards. The Registry will help you become more aware of your own potential health issues and help VA better understand the potential health effects of deployment-related exposures.

By enrolling in the Registry, you can create a snapshot from which to identify changes in your health, print your completed questionnaire, use it to discuss concerns with your provider and learn about follow-up care.

Some Veterans and Servicemembers may experience difficulties receiving accurate deployment information within the registry if they deployed during the following timeframes:

• After 1991, but before September 11, 2001
• If you have recently returned from deployment within the last 60 days

If you are a Veteran or Servicemember experiencing difficulties receiving the correct deployment information and have deployed during the outlined deployment periods stated above, we ask for your patience while we continue to address technical approaches to solving any challenges.

FEATURES

• Review additional information about burn pits and health care resources
• Review your completed questionnaire with information about your exposures to airborne hazards (such as smoke from burn pits, oil-well fires, or pollution during deployment) as well as other exposures and health concerns
• Print or download your completed questionnaire

CPT Coach is for people who are participating in Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) with a professional mental healthcare provider. This app contains support materials for a complete course of CPT to help patients manage their treatment, including between session assignments, mobile versions of CPT worksheets, readings, and PTSD symptom monitoring.

CPT Coach is not intended to be used as self-help without the guidance of a professional mental healthcare provider.

CPT Coach was made by the mobile mental health team of the National Center for PTSD, Dissemination & Training Division.

Need help with this app? Send email to MobileMentalHealth@va.gov.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) aims to help you live with unpleasant thoughts, feelings, and impulses without avoiding them or being controlled by them. In ACT, you are encouraged to commit to actions so that you can live your life by your values, even in the face of these unpleasant experiences. This app was developed for Veterans, Service Members, and other people who are in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in consultation with a therapist. It offers exercises, tools, information, and tracking logs so you can practice what you’re learning in your daily life.

ACT Coach was created by VA’s National Center for PTSD.

Need help with this mobile app? Send email to MobileMentalHealth@va.gov.

PTSD Coach was designed for those who have, or may have, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This app provides you with education about PTSD, information about professional care, a self-assessment for PTSD, opportunities to find support, and tools that can help you manage the stresses of daily life with PTSD. Tools range from relaxation skills and positive self-talk to anger management and other common self-help strategies. You can customize tools based on your preferences and can integrate your own contacts, photos, and music. This app can be used by people who are in treatment as well as those who are not.

PTSD Coach is available in English and Spanish. To switch the language, go to the Menu > Personalize, and then select the language using the picker at the bottom of the screen.

PTSD Coach Online

If you do not have a smartphone, but have a computer and internet access, try PTSD Coach Online. The online version of PTSD Coach is based on the app, although they do differ slightly. PTSD Coach Online includes additional tools and videos for understanding your goals and problem-solving.

PTSD Coach Online is most compatible with the internet browser, Google Chrome. If you experience issues when using another browser, try switching to Google Chrome.

PTSD Coach and PTSD Coach Online were created by VA’s National Center for PTSD and DoD’s National Center for Telehealth & Technology.

Need help with this mobile app? Send email to MobileMentalHealth@va.gov.

CBT-i Coach is for people who are engaged in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia with a health provider, or who have experienced symptoms of insomnia and would like to improve their sleep habits. The app will guide users through the process of learning about sleep, developing positive sleep routines, and improving their sleep environments. It provides a structured program that teaches strategies proven to improve sleep and help alleviate symptoms of insomnia.

CBT-i Coach is intended to augment face-to-face care with a healthcare professional. It can be used on its own, but it is not intended to replace therapy for those who need it.

CBT-i Coach is based on the therapy manual, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia in Veterans.

CBT-i Coach was a collaborative effort between VA’s National Center for PTSD, Stanford School of Medicine, and DoD’s National Center for Telehealth and Technology.

Need help with this mobile app? Send email to MobileMentalHealth@va.gov.

Stay Quit Coach 2 is designed to help Veterans and others go from quitting smoking to becoming a non-smoker for good.

Stay Quit Coach 2 is based on an integrated care manual for Veterans with PTSD who smoke cigarettes. It offers information, a breathing exercise, coping plans based on the “Ask, Advise, Replace, Mentally Cope” (AARM) model, motivational messages, medication reminders, money-saved calculator, and resources to stay quit.

The app is can be used on its own, but for maximum benefit use Stay Quit Coach 2 with the help of a counselor or health care provider.

Stay Quit Coach 2 was developed by the National Center for PTSD at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Need help with this mobile app? Send email to MobileMentalHealth@va.gov.

PE Coach is designed to be used during therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with a health professional who is trained in Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy. The app will guide you through the exercises assigned by your therapist and allows you to track and record your progress. In addition, the app provides techniques such as controlled breathing that will help you tolerate and decrease your distress. PE Coach will help you remember and track your upcoming therapy sessions. You will be able to audio record your sessions directly onto your phone so you can review them later as part of your treatment.

By itself this app is not sufficient to treat PTSD. However, those who are receiving PE treatment can work together with their therapist to use the tools in this app.

PE Coach was created by VA’s National Center for PTSD and DoD’s National Center for Telehealth & Technology.

Need help with this app? Send email to MobileMentalHealth@va.gov.