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studentbody
studentbody is a comprehensive set of text-based tools for student health and well being. studentbody helps students address stress, anxiety, sleep, exercise, and eating habits to improve overall health and well-being and thus, improve college and university retention. Tools include a just-in-time framework via a natural language learning [chatbot].
Poor student health and well-being is costly for the individual and their families, as well as universities and colleges. Health and well-being impacts attendance rates, academic performance, graduation rates and relatedly, university status and ranking, and alumni giving.
studentbody offers a customizable co-branded resource for universities. It does this by creating tailored use experiences, drawing from natural language learning technologies to offer trustworthy, medically accurate, evidence-based, health literate, culturally sensitive, relevant, and easy to understand health tools to improve and support college students health and well-being.
Poor student health and well-being is costly for the individual and their families, as well as universities and colleges. Health and well-being impacts attendance rates, academic performance, graduation rates and relatedly, university status and ranking, and alumni giving.
studentbody offers a customizable co-branded resource for universities. It does this by creating tailored use experiences, drawing from natural language learning technologies to offer trustworthy, medically accurate, evidence-based, health literate, culturally sensitive, relevant, and easy to understand health tools to improve and support college students health and well-being.
![Tablet with text-based tools for student health](https://studentbody.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/about-us-tablet-02.jpg)
studentbody is:
Ask Anna, which provides real-time, instantaneous, comprehensive, confidential, and anonymous help to students through a proprietary text-based interactive program that covers thousands of health topics (e.g., sleep, stress, anxiety, reproductive health, homesickness, exercise, alcohol, infectious disease).
Text-based simulations, which prepares students for real-life discussions by simulating difficult conversations they might have with a family-member, faculty, peer, or counselor (e.g., discussing depression, sexual harassment, alcohol- or drug-related issues).
Live connect engages in HIPAA-compliant video and/or audio peer counseling and triage for university health centers.
Be urself offers curated behavior-change modules and information on food and nutrition; stress management; smoking cessation; fitness and exercise; sexual health; and sleep, delivered through an interactive, text-based application.
Ask Anna, which provides real-time, instantaneous, comprehensive, confidential, and anonymous help to students through a proprietary text-based interactive program that covers thousands of health topics (e.g., sleep, stress, anxiety, reproductive health, homesickness, exercise, alcohol, infectious disease).
Text-based simulations, which prepares students for real-life discussions by simulating difficult conversations they might have with a family-member, faculty, peer, or counselor (e.g., discussing depression, sexual harassment, alcohol- or drug-related issues).
Live connect engages in HIPAA-compliant video and/or audio peer counseling and triage for university health centers.
Be urself offers curated behavior-change modules and information on food and nutrition; stress management; smoking cessation; fitness and exercise; sexual health; and sleep, delivered through an interactive, text-based application.
COLLEGE STUDENTS HAVE POOR HEALTH → POOR STUDENT HEALTH IS EXPENSIVE
![56% report stress to be higher than average or tremendous](https://studentbody.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/about-stress.jpg)
![32% have been diagnosed with a mental illness](https://studentbody.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/about-mental-illness.jpg)
![31% report sleep difficulties have been traumatic or very difficult to handle at any point in the last year](https://studentbody.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/about-sleep-difficulties.jpg)
![81% are not getting the recommended amount of daily exercise](https://studentbody.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/about-exercise.jpg)
![25% will have at least one STD by the end of their education](https://studentbody.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/about-std.jpg)
![96% do not eat enough fruits and vegetables per day](https://studentbody.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/about-fruit-veg.jpg)