Assess Your Wellness

Diabetes

• Determine your risk for diabetes and see how making lifestyle changes will lower your individual risk at www.yourdiseaserisk.harvard.edu 
• https://www.diabetes.org/risk-test.jsp Take this test to see if you are at risk for having or developing Type 2 Diabetes.

Cancer

• Determine your risk for all types of cancer and see how making lifestyle changes will lower your individual risk at www.yourdiseaserisk.harvard.edu

      

 

• The e-toke and alcoholscreening.org interactive web surveys allow you to enter information about your drinking patterns and marijuana use respectively, demographic information, and receive personalized feedback. Your responses are calculated, your results are compared to national and local college norms, and your risk factors are explained. The assessments each take about 5 minutes to complete. Completing the surveys will help increase your personal awareness and if you have concerns about your use, you may like to meet with one of the staff at the Center for Health & Wellness Promotion for an assessment and/or to discuss your concerns. Your use of the screenings will be completely anonymous, and the only information that will be reported back to USD will be in the form of general, summary information relating to the number of students who have completed the screenings and the results of the screenings.

                  

Heart Disease

• Determine your risk for heart disease and see how making lifestyle changes will lower your individual risk at www.yourdiseaserisk.harvard.edu
• This tool will help you assess your risk of having a heart attack or dying from coronary heart disease in the next 10 years.  www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3003499

Mental Health Screenings

• USD’s Wellness Area offers students an opportunity to complete brief, online, self-assessment screenings for depression, anxiety, alcohol and eating disorders.  Each screening takes about 5 minutes to complete, and provides non-diagnostic information about whether your responses to the screenings are consistent with depression, anxiety, alcohol, and/or eating disorders.  Completing the screenings is no substitute for a face-to-face consultation with a mental health professional, but may help you decide whether you would like to meet with one of staff at the Counseling Center (for a wide range of personal counseling concerns) or the Center for Health and Wellness Promotion (for alcohol or drug related counseling).  If you click on the link below, you will be directed to a website owned and managed by College Response.  Your use of the screenings will be completely anonymous, and the only information that will be reported back to USD will be in the form of general, summary information relating to the number of students who have completed the screenings and the results of the screenings.

Click here for mental health screenings

Nutrition

• The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Interactive Toolbox contains links to many websites that allow consumers and professionals to input information and receive individual feedback to help with dietary assessment and planning, checking personal health risks, testing knowledge, and evaluating needs.  Below are some of our favorites:
• MyPyramid Tracker is an online dietary and physical activity assessment tool that provides information on your diet quality, physical activity status, related nutrition messages, and links to nutrient and physical activity information.  http://www.mypyramidtracker.gov/
• Body Mass Index (BMI) is a relationship between weight and height that is associated with body fat and health risk.  Calculate yours at http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/bmicalc.htm
• CalorieKing holds the nutritional information for over 50,000 generic and brand name foods (including over 260 fast-food chains). http://www.calorieking.com/foods/category.php?cat=21
• How many calories do you need in day and how much should be fat, protein, and carbohydrates?  Find out at
  http://healthresources.caremark.com/topic/macronutrient
• See if you are getting enough calcium to optimize your bone health http://www.dairycouncilofca.org/Tools/CalciumQuiz/Default.aspx?action=quiz

Osteoporosis

• Determine your risk for osteoporosis and see how making lifestyle changes will lower your individual risk at www.yourdiseaserisk.harvard.edu.  See if you are getting enough calcium to optimize your bone health
• http://www.dairycouncilofca.org/Tools/CalciumQuiz/Default.aspx?action=quiz

Tobacco

• Take the Stop Smoking Quiz at the American Cancer Society’s website