Personal Health History Intake Survey
Captures a patient's current health status, chronic conditions, medications, allergies, family history, and lifestyle risk factors ahead of a visit — with an AI follow-up that reconstructs the real story behind their most significant condition or symptom instead of a checkbox. Built for clinics, telehealth intake, and health research teams standardizing pre-visit history collection.
Sample questions
A preview of what’s in the template. Every question is editable before you launch.
Please review and confirm before continuing.
Overall, how would you rate your health right now?
Have you ever been diagnosed with any of the following conditions?
- High blood pressure
- Diabetes (Type 1 or 2)
- Heart disease
- Asthma or COPD
- Cancer (past or current)
- Anxiety or depression
- Arthritis
- Thyroid disorder
Please list any medications, supplements, or dosages you currently take regularly. Write 'None' if not applicable.
Do you have any known allergies?
- Medication allergy
- Food allergy
- Environmental allergy (pollen, dust, pet dander)
- Latex allergy
- Insect sting allergy
Has an immediate family member (parent or sibling) been diagnosed with any of the following?
- Heart disease
- Diabetes
- Cancer
- High blood pressure
- Stroke
- Mental health condition
- Alzheimer's or dementia
In the last 7 days, on how many days did you get at least 8 minutes of physical activity?
- 0 days
- 1-2 days
- 3-4 days
- 5-7 days
Which best describes your smoking history?
- Never smoked
- Former smoker (quit)
- Current smoker - some days
- Current smoker - daily
In the last year, how often have you had an alcoholic drink?
- Never
- Monthly or less
- 2-4 times a month
- 2-3 times a week
- 4 or more times a week
Reference the respondent's self-rated overall health and any chronic conditions they selected. Ask them to walk through how the condition affects daily life, how well it's currently managed (medication, monitoring, specialist care), and any recent changes in symptoms or severity. If they reported no diagnosed conditions or excellent health, instead probe for any symptoms, aches, or changes they've noticed but haven't yet mentioned to a doctor, and why.
What is your date of birth?
What was your sex assigned at birth? (Used for risk assessment purposes only.)
- Female
- Male
- Intersex
- Prefer not to say
Thank you for sharing this with us. Your history will be reviewed by your care team before your visit and stored securely as part of your confidential medical record.
What’s included
AI follow-ups
Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.
Attention checks
Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.
AI-drafted copy
Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.
Auto report
Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.
How it compares
We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.
Why this template
- Goes beyond checkbox history collection with an AI follow-up interview that reconstructs the real story behind the respondent's most significant condition or symptom, referencing their self-rated health and reported chronic conditions
- Covers the full pre-visit intake picture in one flow: current conditions, medications/dosages, allergies, family history, physical activity, smoking and alcohol use, and demographic risk factors
- Opens with a clear consent step and closes with a message confirming care-team review, giving patients a transparent, guided experience rather than a bare form
- Produces an auto-generated report clinics or research teams can use to standardize pre-visit history without manual chart review
Typeform
Personal Training Health History QuestionnaireThis is a fielding-ready conversational form aimed at personal trainers screening new clients, covering injuries, medications, and lifestyle basics before a training program. It's built for fitness intake rather than clinical or telehealth visit preparation, so its depth on chronic conditions, family history, and clinical risk factors is limited compared to a health-system-oriented intake. Useful as a lightweight model for conversational form flow, not for research-grade history capture.
What it does well
- Simple, mobile-friendly conversational form format typical of Typeform
- Quick to deploy for fitness/wellness intake use cases
- Likely includes basic injury and medication questions relevant to training safety
Where it falls short
- Static question set with no adaptive follow-up probing into a client's most significant condition
- Not designed for clinical intake depth (e.g., structured family history, allergy detail, per-visit summarization)
- No published methodology for how responses are scored or synthesized into a clinician-ready summary
QuestionPro
Health History Survey Questions Template | Sample Survey, Examples, Questions & QuestionnairesThis page reads as a sample-questions and best-practices guide for health history surveys rather than a single fielding-ready template, offering example question types researchers can copy into their own survey. It's a reasonable reference for question wording but requires manual assembly into a deployable instrument. There's no indication of adaptive interviewing or automated report generation built into the flow.
What it does well
- Broad library of example health history question types to draw from
- General survey platform with standard logic/branching capabilities
- Positioned for research and general survey use cases, giving flexibility
Where it falls short
- Presented as example content/guide rather than a ready-to-field structured template
- No adaptive AI follow-up to explore the story behind a significant condition
- No transparent prompt methodology or automated per-response quality scoring
SurveySparrow
Dental Health History QuestionnaireThis is a fielding-ready template scoped specifically to dental intake, covering relevant medical background a dentist needs before treatment. It's a genuine health history collection tool but narrowly scoped to oral/dental care rather than general primary care, telehealth, or population health research. Its conversational format is a plus, though it appears static rather than adaptive.
What it does well
- Ready-to-use template tailored to a specific clinical context (dentistry)
- Conversational, chat-style survey format consistent with SurveySparrow's platform
- Likely includes standard consent and medical background fields relevant to dental treatment
Where it falls short
- Scoped to dental-specific history, not general chronic condition, family history, or lifestyle risk capture for primary/telehealth intake
- No adaptive AI follow-up to reconstruct the narrative behind a patient's most significant condition
- No automated quality scoring or auto-generated summary report for care teams
Frequently asked questions
What questions are in the “Personal Health History Intake Survey” template?
The template includes 14 ready-to-use questions, starting with: “Welcome! Before your visit, we'd like to understand your health history so your care team is prepared. This takes about…” · “Please review and confirm before continuing.” · “Overall, how would you rate your health right now?”. The full set is previewed above, and every question is editable.
How long does this survey take to complete?
Respondents typically finish the 14 questions in about 7 minutes.
Can I customize this template?
Yes — every question, answer option, and the ordering is editable before you launch. You can add or remove questions, or ask the AI editor to rework the survey around your research goal.
Is this template free to use?
Yes. Open it in the editor and start customizing right away — no account required to try it, and the free plan covers launching your survey.
Ready to launch?
Open this template in the editor. Every part is yours to change before the first respondent sees it.
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