TAMU HLTH 236 Final Exam Review
In ayurvedic medicine there are ___ chankras.
7
Which of the following statement regarding religion is incorrect?
A person's religion is based on his or her ethnicity.
The process in which members of one cultural group adopt the beliefs and behaviors of another group.
Acculturation
Effective health communication requires which of the following attributes?
Accuracy, consistency, and reliability
Legal documents that enable a person to convey his or her decisions about end-of-life care ahead of time.
Advance directives
Religion is thought to correlate to positive outcomes with respect to:
All of the above
Which of the following is the emerging challenge for health communication?
All of the above
Which of the following medical decisions can be influenced by worldview?
All of the above
Which of the following belongs to the practical reasons for addressing spritual issues in clinical practice?
All of the above.
Another word for biomedical medicine:
Allopathic
When non-mainstream health practices are utilized in place of conventional care.
Alternative medicine
The five guiding principles for quality standards of practice for the evaluation profession, 1) systematic inquiry, 2) competence, 3) integrity/honesty, 4) respect for people, and 5) responsibilities for general and public welfare, have been developed by this agency.
American Evaluation Association
What group uses the hallucinogenic peyote as part of their spiritual ceremonies?
American Indians
In 2007, the race/ethnicity that used CAM most often.
American Indians/Alaskan Natives
All of the following diseases are prevalent in the Hispanic community except:
Arthritis
The Health Belief model includes the following concepts/constructs except:
Attitudes
The ethical principle concerned with a person's right to self determination and informed consent in healthcare.
Autonomy
The Sanskirt word that means the science of life:
Ayurveda
The worldview that conflict should be avoided:
Collectivism
People with this worldview may be reluctant to complete an advance directive because of concerns about isolating this person or offending other relatives.
Collectivist
Treatments utilized in conjunction with Western medical therapies.
Complementary medicine
Which of the following is not a characteristic of Individualism?
Conflict avoidance, emphasis on harmony and reality
____ refer to the degree to which a person has adopted to the dominant culture while retaining traditional practices.
Cultural adaptation
_____ refers to the process in which the healthcare professional continually strives to achieve the ability and availability to effectively work within the cultural context of a client.
Cultural competence
Which of the following statement is incorrect?
Currently there are no licensing or registration requirements for herbal practitioners.
In Yin and Yang, the term Yin refers to:
Darkness
Which of the following is not a potential barrier in verbal communication?
Differences in facial expression
Which of the following is not utilized to prevent naturalistic illness?
Early Screening
Which of the following is not one of the three major concerns that affects health care professionals in regards to worlview?
Educational level
The Latin American belief that good and evil spirits can affect life, health, and luck.
Espiritismo
______ is the socially defined characteristics of a group of people who share common cultural factors such as race, history, national origin, religious belief, or language.
Ethnicity
People from Puerto Rico may place a bracelet on the wrist of a baby to ward off:
Evil eye
All of the following are characteristics of ethnicity except:
Eye color
All religions support organ donation.
False
Herbal supplements are regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug administration.
False
Hispanics utilize preventive medicine activities routinely.
False
Most Hispanics do not speak English very well.
False
Smiling is a universal sign of happiness in all cultures.
False
The terms "Hispan
False
A popular form of Latino mass media.
Fotonovelas
____ proposes that microorganisms are the cause of many diseases and it is a core component of contemporary allopathic medicine.
Germ theory
A psychological model that tries to predict health behaviors by analyzing individual beliefs and attitudes.The health
Health Belief Model
The model developed by the U.S. Public Health Service to explain the lack of public participation in health screening and prevention programs.
Health Belief Model
____ encompasses the study and use of communication strategies to inform and influence individual and community decisions that enhance health.
Health communication
An ancient theoretical belief that our bodies have four important fluids that must be balanced for health.
Humoral theory
____ is an ancient theoretical belief that our bodies have four important fluids that must be balanced for health.
Humoral theory
Which of the following statement regarding the PRECEDE-PROCEED model is correct?
In the PRECEDE part of the model, there are three factors that contribute to behavior change: predisposing factors, enabling factors, and reinforcing factors.
Why is caffeine prohibited or restricted by many religions?
It has addictive properties.
The following is true about Reiki.
It is believed to have originated in Tibet.
The ethical principle that people should be treated equally and fairly.
Justice
The total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the successive phases of the person's existence that determines the person's destiny.
Karma
The ____ individuals have the most difficulty as they are not accepted by culture of origin or dominant society.
Marginalized
_____ people tend to have the most psychological problems and the highest stress levels.
Marginalized
Religious beliefs significantly influence all of the following practices except:
Medication doses
____ is a group of mental techniques intended to provide relaxation and mental harmony, quiet one's mind, and increase awareness. It is utilized to decrease stress, anxiety, pain, and improve mood.
Meditation
The largest subgroup of Hispanics in the United States is:
Mexicans
____ refers to personal character and what the individual believes is right or wrong conduct.
Morality
A theory of disease causation where illness results from upset of the balance between the person and environment.
Naturalistic theory
Humoral, ayurvedic, and vitalistic approaches are examples of:
Naturalistic theory
______ of disease views health as a state of harmony between the person and his or her environment; when this balance is upset, illness will result.
Naturalistic theory
Hydrotherapy is an example of this type of CAM.
Naturopathy
All of the following are views of cultural relativism except:
One's own culture is superior to another one
The PRECEDE-PROCEED model includes the following areas except:
Perceived benefits
Which of the following is not a characteristic of Collectivism?
Person is basic unit of analysis and reality
A belief of disease causation where it is thought illness is caused by misbehavior or intervention of a supernatural being.
Personalistic Theory
According to ____ theory, illness is believed to be caused by the persona's misbehavior, such as violations of social or religious norms.
Personalistic theory
The vital force in ayurvedic medicine:
Prana
Promotores are also known as all of the following except:
Public health nurses
_____ is primarily based on physical characteristics, whereas ethnicity is based on social and cultural identities.
Race
Which of the following statement regarding ritual is incorrect?
Religion include established rituals, and all rituals are associated with a specific religion.
A set of actions that are usually structured and have symbolic value or meaning.
Rituals
When a woman does not speak or make sounds
Silent birth
Which of the following statement is incorrect?
Spirituality is more associated with behaviors that can be quantified easier than the term religion
In the Hispanic community, an illness that results from a frightful experience is known as:
Susto
The Health Belief model includes the following areas except:
Technological supports
An ancient healing practice based on diagnosis from a pattern of symptoms rather than by identifying specific illness. Treatment includes herbs and acupuncture.
Traditional Chinese Medicine
____ is based on a number of interrelated theories: the theory of Qi, five elements, yin and yang, and the meridian theory.
Traditional Chinese Medicine
A ritual can occur frequently or at long intervals, and it can occur in private or in public.
True
Circumstances exist where religion can negatively impact health.
True
Holistic medicine is sometimes viewed as being unscientific.
True
Religious practices may lead people to not take medications when fasting.
True
Some religions find suicide by fasting acceptable because it is nonviolent.
True
Worldview is the cultural assumptions and beliefs that express how people see, interpret, and explain their experience.
True
Which of the following is not recommended when working with people with low health literacy?
Use acronyms, common expressions, idioms and abbreviations
Being truthful and providing information that is necessary.
Veracity
_____ was convened to evaluate CAM utilization in the U.S. and to make recommendations regarding future governmental action.
White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy
The concept that a healthcare provider should do good for the patient:
beneficence
Cultural ___ occurs when cultural and systemic power differences are ignored.
blindness
When a person believes that his or her culture is superior to another one it is called:
cultural ethnocentricity
All of the following are elements of Campinhabacote's Process of Cultural Competence in the Delivery of Health Care Services model except:
cultural indoctrination
Hispanics have an obesity rate that is:
higher than non-Hispanic whites
Hispanic teen pregnancy rates are:
highest of all groups but declining like all other groups
Proxemics is:
interpersonal distance
The four rings in the Purnell model do not include:
neighbors
Yoga consists of going through asanas, which are:
physical postures
The worldview of the Hispanics can be characterized as:
present-oriented
In the Hispanic community, those who promote health in their own community are known as:
promotores
A person's physical characteristics and/or genetic or biological makeup is called:
race
One of the most important predictors of health disparities is:
socio-economic status
Many religions approve of abortion under certain circumstances. These generally include all of the following except:
the female is under 16 years of age
