Online Screenings

Check in on how you're doing

Welcome to Here to Help's online screening for mental well-being, depression, anxiety and substance use. Your answers are completely anonymous--we won't record anything that can identify you. If there's a screening you'd like to skip, just hit the Skip button at the bottom of the screening. The screening tool will guide you through the following steps:

1	First, you'll be asked to provide a little information about yourself (like your age and gender) so we can guide you to the right screenings.
2	The screenings start with a short quiz designed to gauge your overall mental well-being.
3	A depression screening is next. There are different types of depression screenings available for specific groups. We'll direct you to the one that is right for you.
4	One of the depression screenings includes questions about other symptoms. Depending on your answers, you may be directed to a mood disorders screening which looks more closely at symptoms of mania, which can happen alongside depression.
5	Your next stop is an anxiety screening. You'll be directed to different versions of the screening depending on your age.
6	A screening will then take a look at your body image and attitudes toward food and eating.
7	The last screenings assess your use of alcohol and cannabis. Depending on your age, you may also see a screen related to how and when you use any substances and their impacts. Note that the alcohol and substance use screens do not provide a score like the other screens, so do not supply levels of relative risk for harm from your use. What they intend is to help you identify areas of concern you may want to think about or act on.
8	Finally, your results will be displayed for you to review and print or email. A reminder that these screenings cannot diagnose on their own. Health professionals need much more information about you to make the right diagnosis.

Screenings Disclaimer | Screenings Credits

Well-Being Screen NHS Health Scotland, University of Warwick and University of Edinburgh,2006, all rights reserved. Adult Depression Screen The PHQ 9 is adapted from PRIME MD TODAY, developed by Drs. Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B.W. Williams, Kurt Kroenke, and colleagues, with an educational grant from Pfizer Inc. For research information, contact Dr. Spitz er at [email protected]. Use of the PHQ - 9 may only be made in accordance with the Terms of Use available at www.pfizer.com Copyright C 1999 Pfizer Inc. All rights reserved. PRIME MD TODAY is a trademark of Pfizer Inc. Questions 11 - 13 are not from the PHQ - 9 but from the HANDS (The Harvard Department of Psychiatry / National Depression Screening Day Scale). Copyright C 1998 President and Fellows of Harvard College and Screening for Mental Health. All rights reserved. For use in conjunction with National Depression Screening Day only. Duplication or use for any other purpose is prohibited. Postpartum Depression Screen Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. Cox et al., 1987. Senior Depression Screen Geriatric Depression Scale short form. Sheik and Yesavage, 1986. Youth Depression Screen Patient Health Questionnaire for Adolescents (PHQ-A). Modified with permission from the PHQ (Spitzer, Williams and Kroenke, 1999) by J. Johnson (Johnson, 2002). Questions 14-18 are the 5 factor questions from the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) tool described in Birmaher et al., 1999. Mood Disorders Screen 2000 by The University of Texas Medical Branch. All rights reserved. This instrument is designed for screening purposes only and is not to be used as a diagnostic tool. Adult Anxiety Screen Developed by Dr Robert R Selles for Anxiety Canada in collaboration with the Canadian Mental Health Association, British Columbia Division, 2019. Youth Anxiety Screen Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders (SCARED), Developed by Boris Birmaher, M.D., Suneeta Khetarpal, M.D., Marlane Cully, M.Ed., David Brent, M.D., and Sandra McKenzie, Ph.D., Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh (October, 1995). Body Image and Eating Attitudes Screen Developed by Jessie's Legacy Eating Disorders Prevention, a program of Family Services of the North Shore in collaboration with Canadian Mental Health Association BC Division, 2020. Risky Drinking Screen Canadian Institute for Substance use Research University of Victoria, 2009-2016. Cannabis Use Screen Canadian Institute for Substance use Research University of Victoria, 2018. Substance Use and Harms Screen Canadian Institute for Substance use Research University of Victoria, 2016.