CHES 1
A health education specialist has been asked to collect qualitative data from participants. Given a short time period to collect date, which method take the least amount of time?
Focus Groups
Print material was selected as the appropriate way to provide a take-home message to reinforce concepts presented during a behavior change intervention. The first step in planning was the specific material to be developed is to:
Define the audience for the material
If a health education specialist wished to use the application levels of Bloom's taxonomy in an intervention aimed at decreasing saturated fat consumption, what might the health education specialist have the priority population do?
Demonstrate how to prepare a mean
Which represent primary sources that could be used for community needs assessment?
Informal intervies, observations, and surverys
A health education specialist needs to determine specific alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use prevention needs and immediately prioritize those need with a few experts fro the priority population. Which primary date collection technique would be the best to use in this scenario?
Nominal group process
A health education specialist is asked to measure actual use of walking trail in a local community. Which of the following methods is best to measure actual use of the trial over a period of weeks"
Observation
The health education specialist is working with a local community institute a smoke free environment in local businesses, agencies, and restaurants throughout the entire community. What type of health strategy would the health education specialist implement in the community
Ordinance
In a community, twice as many people died over the course of one year in house fires than in char crashes. Community members demand the health education specialists immediately create a fire prevention intervention. Before planning the fire prevention intervention, the health education specialists should first determine the:
Population risk
A hospital is expanding outreach services and families with a new unit focused on prevention and the treatment of chronic disease. The health education specialist is tasked with gathering local data on these conditions. Which is the most useful rate to use?
Prevalence Rate
(Cohort on infections bar graph) The graph reveals the number of new cases each moth of a diagnose asymptomatic infection and the cumulative number of cases at the end of six months. Form the following statements, which is the best account regarding what is represented in the graph?
Prevalent has risen steadily each month
Using a written questionnaire, a cross-sectional survey about personal alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use behaviors was administer to a priority population. The priority population for the survey did not respond. The health education specialist would then need to find other evidence that the beavers occurred or did not occur using:
Proxy measures
According to graph one, which of the following is true?
emergency department visits for TBI have increased more than 1.5 times from 2001 to 2010
In a priority population,the infant mortality rate and overall death rate for mothers with less than a high school education is almost twice as high as mothers with 13 more years of education. These are examples of
health disparities
Which of the following is the first step in designing a survey? Determining the
objectives of the survey
Conducting a capacity assessment focuses on identifying community :
resources
In a meeting, community member offer suggestion for curbing the community's obesity problem. They focus on the behaviors of individuals in the community, thinking if community members change their dietary behaviors, then the obesity problem will be solved. A health Education specialist explains the solution is not this simple because:
sometime behaviors are influenced by other factors, such as lack of access to health food, that are out of a persons control
The health department administrator just returned rom a meeting where someone used a focus group to gather data and ow has a great idea. The administrator tasks the health education specialist with conducting a focus group of low income citizens from the south side of the town to answer questions about which heart disease intervention the department should offer city wide. Knowing the limitation of the strategy, the health education specialist is rightfully concerned about
the generalizability of the findings
A health disparity illustrated in graph 3 is:
the incidence of HIV infection is greater in mean then in women
A health edu action specialist is concerned about HIV infection in the community. The health education specialist might use the date o the graph above:
to compare to primary data in the community to understand community need
consumption, medication compliance, and self- care are considered which type of factors related to health?
Behavioral
(Estimated HIV infections) According the graph 3, which of the following groups is at greater risk for HIV infection>
Black MSM
Which methods represents a secondary source for a needs assessment?
Published data from a CDC article
The health education specialist must analyze the meaning of the data collected during the assessment and determine health education/promotion needs. If the health education specialist aggregates the data, which cognitive process of qualitative research is he/she focusing on?
Synthesizing
According to graph one, which of the following is true?
although the number of TBIs has increased, the number of deaths due to TBI has decreased
A large group of tourists traveled on an ocean liner to a tropical island and developed an acute, flu-like illness. The suspected cause of illness is associated with cursing on this liner. Heath authorities need to know the number of all passengers who became ill, as well as those who travels on the ocean liner. Which rate should the education specialist calculate to provide information to health authorities
attack rate
