Wellness-Check

Description of Wellness-Check

Going for routine health checkup has gained popularity in the recent years
as a preventive and promotive step. But most of the times, this does not include mental well being.
Wellness- check is an internet- based program to track various aspects of one's mental well being. It is developed with the aim of increasing the value of mental health in the minds of people, giving individuals an opportunity to reflect on their mental well-being and motivating them to take preventive and promotive actions for their mental health and personal growth.
Wellness check is NOT a diagnostic or a screening tool for psychiatric disorders. It is actually a tool to help people understand how well they are functioning in a psychological sense, in terms of five aspects of well being mentioned below.
Registered users can respond to the five sections of wellness- check survey (questionnaires) online to get instant feedback on different aspects of mental well being. Users receive visual and verbal feedback on frequency of negative and positive emotions experienced (emotional well being), psychological well being, distress level, social well being and pattern of engagement in pleasure-oriented and meaningful activities. Positivity ratio (one’s balance of positive and negative emotions) can also be estimated based on average of two fillings of emotional well being section.
The Wellness-Check feedback provided is based on norms developed in an Indian adult sample as part of an ICSSR funded research project being carried out at the by the research team at the Positive Psychology Unit, Dept. of Clinical Psychology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore.
In order to receive feedback for the first time, the users are required to complete all the 5 sections. Subsequently they can re-visit and re-fill any one section and get a new feedback for that aspect of mental well-being. Thus users can track their well-being over time. Wellness Check includes a Resource section that provides strategies to cultivate specific aspects of mental well being.