Health Promotion Across the Lifespan

Submit by 2359 Saturday of Module 1

Name:

Date:

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.

Rubric

Use this rubric to guide your work on the assignment, “Health Risk Assessment and Health Promotion Contract.”

Task	Accomplished	Competent	Needs Improvement
Health Risk Assessment (Total 50 points)	All sections include thorough summaries of the online HRA results, with additional details of your health and lifestyle that might play a role in your overall wellness (ie. “I don’t drink or smoke” is not considered a substantial explanation) (50 points)	At least 5 sections completed thoroughly, with substantial summaries and additional details, but not all sections completed thoroughly with substantial detail (35 points)	At least 2 sections completed thoroughly, with substantial summaries and additional details, or no sections completed thoroughly. (15 points)
Health Promotion Contract (Total 50 points) Student must submit HP Contract to pass this course	All 5 sections completed, including measurable goals, correct target dates, and reasonable rewards, etc… Each item inserted in the correct field on the template (goals, dates, rewards, etc…) (50 points)	All sections completed, but not all goals are measureable, dates are missing or all not inserted in the template, missing some or all rewards (35 points)	Minimal sections addressed completely or correctly, or no sections addressed (15points)

Please note: If your goals are not measurable, your Journal Analysis grade also will be affected. Your goals must be measurable so that you can analyze whether you did or did not meet your goals later in the course.

Health Risk Assessment