Description
The VA Mental Health Checkup application (app) for Care Teams supports measurement-based care for Veterans with various mental health conditions. Through the app, VA providers can engage Veterans in their own care with assessments to diagnose symptoms and evaluate levels of distress. With the app, VA staff members (i.e., mental health providers) can assign assessments to Veterans, provide feedback, receive alerts on Veteran assessment scores, and receive notifications when Veterans have completed assessments. By assigning assessments through the app, mental health providers can deliver feedback to Veterans.
Features:
- Assign and manage assessments to diagnose symptoms and evaluate levels of distress
- Receive alerts and notifications on Veteran assessment scores and completed assignments
- View assessment results in detail or as a graph
- Provide assignment feedback directly to Veterans
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Assessments – Assign assessments, view results, and provide feedback to Veterans
- Alerts – Receive alerts for assessments with high scores
- Notifications – Track completed assignments or assignments ended by another provider
- Tracking – View assessments over time as a graph or view individual assessment details
NOTE: You can access the Mental Health Checkup App for Care Teams directly or through the VA Launchpad. The VA Launchpad contains links to all VA apps. By signing into an app once (per session), you can access multiple apps without logging into each one individually.
To search for a specific patient, tap Patient Search, and type in the patient’s last name, last and first name or last name initial and last four Social Security Numbers (SSN) into the search field. Tap the patient you would like to select from the search results and tap Select Patient. To view by assessment type, tap Select an Assessment and choose the assessment type you would like to view (GAD-7, PHQ-9, PCL-5, ISI, BRS, WHODAS12-2.0, VR-12, AUDIT, AUDIT-C, PCL-5 Weekly, PCL5-Monthly, MHRM-10, BAI, QOLI, SWEMWBS) from the drop-down menu that appears.
Regardless of if you are viewing a specific patient or a type of assessment, you will see the patient name, frequency, total number of times, remaining assessments, start/next due date and assigned by. You can sort by any of these fields by tapping the header.
To view assessments for another patient or to view another type of assessment, tap the Showing assignments drop-down. The option to do a patient search or select a type of assessment will appear as before.
To update the frequency, tap the drop-down menu under Frequency and tap Once, Daily, Weekly, Biweekly, Monthly, Quarterly or Annually.
To update the total number of times the assessment should be completed, tap the text field under Total Number of Times, and type in the number you would like to change it to.
To edit the instructions, tap View/Edit under Instructions and edit the instructions in the text box that appear in the pop-up instructions box.
Tap Save Changes to update the assigned assessment(s).
Tap View on a specific assessment to view details of that assessment, including the score, severity and answers to the questions. The patient’s name, SSN, date of birth (DOB) and sex will visible at the top of the screen. Tap Previous Assessment to go to the assessment completed just before, or tap Next Assessment to proceed to the next assessment.