Battery for Health Improvement 2

The BHI 2 test helps caregivers shape an appropriate treatment plan that may reduce treatment time and improve a patient's quality of life.

Benefits

• Evaluate a patient's readiness for medical and behavioral interventions.
• Meet evidence-based medical treatment guidelines outlined for good clinical practice.
• Measure the relationship and impact of physical, environmental, and psychological factors on the patient's treatment.
• Support evaluations involving injuries, worker's compensation, and psychological factors.
• Evaluate treatment effectiveness and monitor clinical outcomes.
• Facilitate communication within a multidisciplinary treatment team or between physicians and psychologists.

Features

BHI 2 test can be used by psychologists, psychiatrists, anesthesiologists, neurologists, physical therapists, surgeons, rehabilitation specialists, and nurses.

• Objective results help reduce treatment time, improve treatment planning, and improve the patient's quality of life.
• Measurement of numerous outcomes, including reduction of pain, improvement in function, and satisfaction with care.
• 31 items highlight clinical concerns such as Addiction Concerns, Compensation Focus, Sleep Disorders, Satisfaction with Care, Suicidal Ideation, and Violent Tendencies.
• Content areas within each scale help distinguish specific reasons for problems.
• BHI 2 instrument compares the patient to individuals with a similar condition for the five reference groups: head injury/headache, neck injury, upper extremity injury, lower extremity injury, back injury.
• Normed using a sample of 725 community individuals and a sample of 527 physical rehabilitation and chronic pain patients.

Scales

View list of scales

Sample Reports

• Progress Report: enables the clinician to monitor the patient's progress over time.
• Profile Report: provides a patient profile that includes a graphical representation of the patient's raw and T scores in comparison to both the patient and community norms.
• Basic Interpretive Report: provides a concise interpretation of test results, including a profile graph and scale summary.
• Enhanced Interpretive Report: provides a more extensive interpretation of the patient's test results, including in-depth scale category narratives.
• Annotated Enhanced Interpretive Report

The following resources are available for BHI 2.

• Screen, Assess, and Monitor for Better Chronic Pain Management Flyer
• Using Psychological Evaluations to Improve Patient Care and Outcomes

• Assessment and Treatment of Chronic Pain: A Physician's Guide
• BBHI 2 Bibliography
• Medical Intervention Risk Report