My Drink Check helps combat risky drinking
Hello Sunday Morning has launched an online tool to help you assess your drinking habits and protect your health.
Hello Sunday Morning, supported by nib foundation, has launched an online alcohol and wellbeing self-assessment, My Drink Check, and a range of other tools to help Aussies assess their drinking habits and take care of their health.
The tools are designed using insights from those challenged first-hand with managing their drinking habits. They aim to identify users' habits through a quick five-minute confidential assessment, and then provide a personalised report of the findings. Users are also directed to clinically backed health and wellbeing information, advice, and assistance to suit their individual circumstances.
Hello Sunday Morning’s self-assessment tool was developed in response to research from the Alcohol and Drug Foundation (2020) which showed that 90% of people with a substance use disorder do not access appropriate treatment and care. In addition, the same research found that there is a shortage of qualified health professionals trained in alcohol-related treatment. My Drink Check was designed to help bridge this gap, by ensuring help-seekers could easily access clinically-backed support, services and information from the comfort of their own home.
nib’s own data also shows there is a need for such a tool among Australians, with claims data revealing a rise in alcohol-related mental health claims in the last financial year. Last year, nib saw a 14% increase in alcohol-related mental health benefits compared to the previous year, costing over $9 million in claims. More notably, our data also revealed a 36% increase in the number of younger members aged 39 and under who had at least one alcohol-related mental health admission during this time (1).
nib foundation has proudly supported Hello Sunday Morning since 2017, and we’ve recently partnered to also launch their new Drink Tracker – a science-backed brief intervention tool to help you track your alcohol consumption. It also provides you with the opportunity to set personal alcohol behaviour change goals and measure your individual progress. Download the Daybreak app to access this new and useful monitoring tool.
By supporting programs like Hello Sunday Morning's My Drink Check, we hope to help all Australians, young and old, better understand their health behaviours. In equipping users with the right tools to support their own journey, we hope to reduce the burden of disease from alcohol consumption through better individual management of long-term health and wellbeing
Take the Alcohol and Wellbeing Self-assessment today, opens in a new tab.
You can also find out more about our partnership with Hello Sunday Morning, or check out their website, opens in a new tab.
1. Claims data retrieved from Financial Year 2021. Includes Australian Residents Health Insurance members only, including whitelabel brands.
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