Mental Health Checkup at MAP (MHPROMAP)

The Mental Health Checkup App will support the implementation of measurement-based care for Veterans with mental health conditions. Measurement-based care entails administration of standardized self-report assessment instruments that evaluate an individual's level of symptoms and distress associated with a specific diagnosis or condition. For instance, the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) is used to measure symptoms related to depression. A mobile solution would enable Veterans to complete assessments on a regular basis, without having to use clinic visit time and clinician resources to administer the tests or enter the data. The test administration results will be available in real time for feedback to the patient, text and graphical information for the clinician at the time of visit, and integrated into CPRS and the VistA MH files with other test administrations of instruments that are content in the Mental Health Assistant software application.