Pro-Change now offers individual access to our evidence-based, award winning behavior change programs within our adult LifeStyle Management Suite. The program, called MyHealth, is available from any Internet-enabled computer and includes programs for smoking, stress management, depression prevention, weight management, exercising regularly, and adherence to prescribed antihypertensive and/or cholesterol lowering medication.
Users first take the Health Risk Intervention (HRI) which starts the change process by pinpointing the user’s stage of change for health risks and by giving targeted guidance on the most important steps that can be taken to progress to the next stage of change. The HRI is then followed by full tailored LifeStyle Management programs for the user’s risk behaviors−e.g, smoking, sedentary behavior, depression, nonadherence to medication, obesity, and unhealthy stress management.
These LifeStyle Management programs won the 2009 URAC Gold Award in Health Management at the Best Practices in Health Care Consumer Empowerment and Protection Conference. Each time a user returns to the program (no more than once a month) they receive tailored feedback on how they are doing, what change strategies they are using well, which they may be under utilizing, and what steps they can take to continue progressing.
Each LifeStyle program is complemented by engaging interactive e-Workbooks filled with exercises that promote the use of the recommended strategies. Easily accessed from the user’s homepage, these e-Workbooks also provide links to a variety of external resources that can help the user move through the stages of change. The e-Workbooks can be accessed as often as the user wants.
A one-year, renewable license for our Health Risk Intervention and the full suite of behaviors costs $35 (US dollars). This new offering permits individuals to access Pro-Change’s high impact, award winning programs that previously were only available to larger populations. To learn more and to sign up, go to www.prochange.com/myhealth.