13: Reassessment
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Congratulations! You have made it through a number of activities that focused on giving you opportunities to explore different approaches to research-based wellness. These activities were intended to help you learn about self-care strategies and hopefully more about yourself as well.
One of the most common research study designs is often called pre-test/post-test. In this design, a researcher gives an assessment to a person, provides them with an intervention, and then retests to see if there was any significant change. At the beginning of this text, you did a number of assessments meant to give you a baseline or starting point for how well you were doing around self-care, stress management, and wellness. The various wellness activities over the past weeks were the intervention. And now it is time to retest! After all, what would a wellness course that is grounded in evidence-based research be without doing our own individualized assessments?
Activity
This week, you will repeat the assessments that you completed for the first activity. As a reminder, there were five assessments that you took during the first activitiy and will take again this week:
- Princeton U Matter
- Social Readjustment Rating Scale OR Students' Stress Rating Scale
- Hassles & Uplifts
- Symptoms of Stress
- Resting Heart Rate
It should be noted at this point that you should NOT go back and look at your initial results until AFTER you have taken these assessments again for the second time. Doing so could introduce bias into your responses which could lead to inaccurate results and conclusions. The goal is to assess as you are in your present state.
Materials Suggested
- Device with access to Internet (and possibly a printer) to access the assessments to be completed.
- Writing utensil and paper or note app to document results
- Optional: SmartWatch for tracking heart rate
Note: You can either download and print the assessments or take them digitally. Regardless, you need to document your responses for each assessment (if appropriate) for your reflection
Directions
Please take the time needed to carefully fill out the five assessments and record your results using the Assessment Summary. As a reminder, it is also recommended that you NOT look at the results of your initial assessments until after you have retaken all of your assessments. The chart is also available as a PDF download: Assessment Summary
Assessment Summary
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Princeton UMatter: Emotional |
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Princeton UMatter: Environmental |
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Princeton UMatter: Intellectual |
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Princeton UMatter: Occupational |
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Princeton UMatter: Physical |
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Princeton UMatter: Social |
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Princeton UMatter: Spiritual |
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Social Readjustment Rating Scale OR |
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Hassle & Uplift: Hassle |
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Hassle & Uplift: Uplift |
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Symptoms of Stress |
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Resting Heart Rate |
Princeton U Matter
The Princeton UMatter Wellness Self-Assessment prompts the user to consider their current state in 7 different dimensions including: emotional, environmental, intellectual, occupational, physical, social, and spiritual.
Take the assessment using one of the links below:
- Electronic access to Princeton UMatter Wellness Self-Assessment (recommended for ease of use of results)
- Print version of Princeton UMatter Wellness Self-Assessment
Social Readjustment Rating Scale OR Students’ Stress Rating Scale
The Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) or Students' Stress Rating Scale (SSRS) measure the impact of various life events on your well-being.
Pick one of the following to complete:
- Electronic access to Social Readjustment Rating Scale (recommended for ease of use of results)
- Print version of Social Readjustment Rating Scale OR Print version of Students' Stress Rating Scale Rating Scale (no electronic version available)
Hassles & Uplifts
The Hassles and Uplifts Scales (HUS) was constructed as a tool to focus on relatively minor events that happen in everyday life.
Take the assessment using the link below:
Print version of Hassles and Uplifts Scale
Note: Please read the full directions for completing the assessment to ensure you are completing the assessment accurately. After assigning a score of 0-3 for each item, add the score up for all Hassles, and then add up the score for all Uplifts.
Symptoms of Stress Table
The Symptoms of Stress Table can be used to identify what stress is doing to the body.
Take the assessment (found on page 2) using the link below.
To quantify this table, add up the scores as follows for each answer: Almost all day, every day (6 pts); Once or twice daily (5 pts.); Every night or day (4 pts.); 2-3 times per week (3 pts.); Once a week (2 pts.); Once a month (1 pt.); Never (0 pts.). Record your total score in the assessment summary table.
Resting Heart Rate
Your heart rate can be used as one indicator of health and provides a quantitative piece of data to track.
Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\): Find your pulse on your wrist. Take your heart rate for 60 seconds. (Photo by BruceBlaus from Wikimedia Commons)
Take your heart rate. If you are not familiar with taking your heart rate or could use a refresher, here are some step-by-step instructions from the Mayo Clinic.
Assessment Summary
If you have not already done so, please record your assessment scores and any interesting observations or notes you had from taking these assessments again: see the Assessment Summary.
Now is the time for you to look back at the results from your initial Assessment Summary. Where possible, consider both your overall score as well as individual item or question comparisons to note the smaller changes that you had.
- What stayed the same between your initial assessments and today's assessments?
- What was different between your initial assessments and today's assessments?
Perhaps you have seen some of the improvements you were hoping for, such as a decrease in a physical symptom or better emotional regulation. If so, that is great! However, it is also possible that the scores indicated that you have MORE stress now than when you started. Remember that there are a lot of "unseen" factors that can play a role in assessment and lower scores may not always indicate that things are "worse". For example, if you are taking these assessments around finals week as a college student, some of your scores might be higher, showing the stressors that come with the end of the semester. For other scores, they may be lower due to the removal of certain life stressors or fears. The numbers alone do not tell the whole picture.
It is important to continue to reflect on the why behind the numbers. Use the questions below to reflect on the changes that you noticed between the initial and current assessment.
- What implications or "take aways" do you notice after comparing the assessment summaries?
- Why did things stay the same or why did they change?
- What life circumstances have changed since you took the initial assessment? For the good or for the worse?
- What changes are more subtle and nuanced reflecting a consistent perspective on your wellness?
- What changes do you notice in your own understanding of yourself and how you analyze the results?
- Are you more connected with what you are feeling and the stress-related triggers you experience?
These reflection questions are also available as a PDF download: Reassessment Reflection - Chapter 13