Personal Reflections & Verification of Completion Program

The Personal Reflections & Verification of Completion Program (PRVC) is an optional "add-on" to the core eCHECKUP TO GO Program. The PRVC provides subscribing institutions a way to positively verify that a student has completed the Alcohol eCHECKUP TO GO and also provides students a guided opportunity to thoughtfully reflect on their personal drinking profile.

An Evidence-Based Approach

Given the research showing that the more time a student spends reflecting on his/her personal feedback, the more likely they are to make positive changes in their behavior (Dimeff and McNeely, 2000), and guided by Motivational Interviewing and Social Norms theories and research (Walters and Baer, 2006); the questions we have designed are intended to minimize resistance, highlight internal discrepancies, and maximize thoughtful contemplation of personal choices and motivation to change.

How it Works

1. Students are prompted to begin the PRVC on the "Resources" page of their Alcohol eCHECKUP TO GO feedback (the last page). Students may begin the PRVC only after reviewing all pages of their personalized feedback.
2. Students provide their personal identifying information (i.e., name, campus identification number, and e-mail address) and select the specific and identified campus official to whom they want to send their verification.
3. Students must also consent to complete the PRVC and send the PRVC via email.
4. Next, the student is presented with questions designed to deepen their thoughtful examination of their personal choices and the social norms surrounding and influencing their use of alcohol. The specific questions the student is required to answer are determined by each individual student's unique Alcohol eCHECKUP TO GO profile.
5. After the student provides their responses to the selected PRVC questions, the student's PRVC is sent to the selected campus official via email.
6. The campus official receiving the PRVC emails can also access our online, real-time administrative site to review, sort, and query their previously sent PRVC responses.

Note: The PRVC program does not transmit students’ responses to the Alcohol eCHECKUP TO GO questions nor their confidential alcohol use profile. The PRVC only verifies that a student completed the program and allows the campus offical to view students responses to the selected PRVC questions.

The eCHECKUP TO GO programs include an "administrative section" where officials from subscribing institutions can log-in and obtain usage information, demographics, and basic statistical analyses regarding their respondents' use of the eCHECKUP TO GO in real time. This report is included in the subscription fee and there is no limit to the number of times institutions can access their information.

The report is also customizable so that site administrators can examine the data from certain subsets of the their total population. For example, one could view the eCHECKUP TO GO Report information for only females who completed the eCHECKUP TO GO between April 1, 2009 and April 30, 2009. The report will do the rest for you!

Click here to see an example of the e-CHUG report.

As a 'Not for Profit Organization' working within the SDSU Research Foundation, the eCHECKUP TO GO Programs provide cost effective & affordable alcohol and other drug interventions.

Alcohol eCHECKUP TO GO

$975.00 USD

An annual subscription fee of $975 USD provides High Schools with unlimited use of an alcohol intervention program tailored and customized to their campus and community.

The subscription fee includes unlimited access to on-line administrative reports and real-time tracking and documentation of those who have completed the program. Each institutions secure administrative site allows up-to-the-minute statistical analyses of their eCHECKUP TO GO's usage, and specialized data reports, including the raw data for every respondent who completes the program.

Personal Reflections & Verification of Completion Program

$0.00 USD

The High School version of the eCHECKUP TO GO includes the companion program 'Personal Reflections & Verification of Completion Program' (PRVC).

Research Support Discount

We encourage and support institutions' evidence-based program evaluation efforts. If your institution is interested in conducting outcomes research projects that seek to empirically evaluate the effectiveness of the eCHECKUP TO GO interventions and plan to publish or present your outcomes, we can offer a year's subscription to BOTH the Alcohol eCHECKUP TO GO and the Marijuana eCHECKUP TO GO programs for $1,500.

To take advantage of the Research Support Discount we ask that you submit a short summary of your research project design plans with your subscription reply form and when you have finished collecting and analyzing your data that you share your results and conclusions with us.

If you are interested in implementing the Alcohol eCHECKUP TO GO at a high school, please download, read and complete the "Alcohol eCHECKUP TO GO Subscription Agreement & Reply Form." Please return it, along with your payment, to:

eCHECKUP TO GO Project
Counseling & Psychological Services
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182-4730

Tel: (619) 594-0710
Fax: (619) 594-4392
Email: echug@mail.sdsu.edu

Please make all payments payable to the "San Diego State University Research Foundation"