Self-assessments are a structured way to evaluate thoughts, emotions, and behaviors in order to gain insight into mental, emotional, or physical well-being. Self-assessments encourage individuals to be more self-aware and reflective about their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. They may prompt individuals to consider how they react in certain situations, how they cope with stress, or how they interact with others. Self-assessments also provide a means for individuals to regularly evaluate and track assessment changes and notice any emerging patterns or trends. Self-monitoring helps individuals stay attuned for early detection and facilitate intervention if necessary for better overall health.
The assessments may be taken at no-cost and saved by taking each individually below. However, by creating a free CAN account, they may be saved, stored, shared, and even compared as they are taken over time. In either instance, at no time will your results be seen by anyone but you unless you choose to share them. Click HERE to create a free CAN account.
Organizations on CAN who wish to use the assessments for their clients, may administer each chosen survey from the client file in the case management section of their dashboard. Click HERE to learn more.
The Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS)
- The Columbia Protocol, also known as the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS), supports suicide risk assessment through a series of simple, plain-language questions that anyone can ask. The answers help users identify whether someone is at risk for suicide, assess the severity and immediacy of that risk, and gauge the level of support that the person needs. Click Here to understand how to administer this assessment.
General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE)
- The General Self-Efficacy Scale is correlated to emotion, optimism, work satisfaction. Negative coefficients were found for depression, stress, health complaints, burnout, and anxiety.
Interpersonal Support Evaluation List (ISEL-12)
- The Interpersonal Support Evaluation List (ISEL-12) is a multi-dimensional inventory measuring perceived social support. It is well documented by many studies that social relations may positively or negatively affect psychiatric and physical morbidity.
Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ9)
- The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) is a self-administered version of the PRIME-MD diagnostic instrument for common mental disorders. It is a diagnostic tool introduced in 2001 to screen adult patients in a primary care setting for the presence and severity of depression.
Socio Economic Status (SES)
- Socioeconomic status (SES) encompasses not just income but also educational attainment, financial security, and subjective perceptions of social status and social class. Socioeconomic status can encompass quality of life attributes as well as the opportunities and privileges afforded to people within society.
Tobacco, Alcohol, Prescription medication, and other Substance use (TAPS)
- The TAPS Tool is a substance use screening and brief assessment instrument that was developed for use in primary care medical settings. It is one of the first screening instruments to provide rapid assessment of all commonly used substance classes, including illicit and prescription opioids, and is one of the only available screeners designed and validated in an electronic self-administered format.
CAGE-AID Substance Abuse Screening Tool
- The CAGE-AID screening tool was adapted from the CAGE alcohol assessment tool to include questions about drug use. The target population for the CAGE-AID is both adults and adolescents and can be administered by patient interview or self-report. These tools are not used to diagnose diseases, but only to indicate whether a problem might exist.
Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q)
- The Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) is a 28-item self-report questionnaire designed to assess the range, frequency and severity of behaviors associated with a diagnosis of an eating disorder. It is categorized into 4 subscales (Restraint, Eating Concern, Shape Concern and Weight Concern) and an overall global score, with a higher score indicating more problematic eating difficulties.
Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES)
- The FIES is a direct measure of food insecurity experienced by people and households and Deepens our understanding of the determinants and consequences of individuals and households affected by food insecurity. It provides timely, reliable and meaningful information about the ability to access food at the individual or household level.
CAN Food Insecurity Assessment (CFIA)
- This proprietary assessment measures food insecurity. Food insecurity includes at a minimum: The lack of availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods with no assured ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways that is, from description. (without resorting to emergency food supplies, scavenging, stealing, or other coping strategies).
PCL-5 Post Traumatic Stress Checklist
- The PCL-5 is a 20-item self-report measure that assesses the 20 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and symptoms of PTSD. The PCL-5 has a variety of purposes, including: Monitoring symptom change during and after treatment. Screening individuals for PTSD. Making a provisional PTSD diagnosis.
CFPB Financial Well-Being Scale
- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau designed this scale to allow practitioners and researchers to accurately and consistently quantify, and therefore observe, something that is not directly observable–the extent to which someone’s financial situation and the financial capability that they have developed provide them with security and freedom of choice.
