Area 1: Assess Needs, Resources, and Capacity for Health Education/Promotion
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 or more years of education. These are examples of:
Health equity
Health determinants
Health capacity
Health disparities
Health disparities
Stakeholders are typically involved in the program planning process in many ways, except:
Monitoring program operations
Deciding on salary of key personnel
Serving as primary users of the program
Ensuring implementation proceeds smoothly
Deciding on salary of key personnel
When facilitating a training workshop on a new electronic medical records system at a clinic, the health education specialist is following the steps for successful training programs. He/she is confident implementing the training steps, as there is little difference between this process and general health education program implementation, except for the need to :
Specify teaching-learning method
Specify learning needs
Specify job performance
Specify instructional resources
Specify job performance
Which section of an original research paper presents evidence tested against the state hypotheses or research questions and presents the statistical findings?
Methodology
Results
Discussion
Conclusion
Results
A health education specialist would like to attend a school board meeting to discuss safety issues in the school. Though multiple forms of data will be used, which of the following will cause a more emotional reaction to evidence the necessity of an intervention?
GIS data of the community
National data from the CDC compared to state data regarding safety
Data presented from a survey of high school seniors
Photovoce or story telling from the students’ point of view
Photovoice or story telling from the students’ point of view
The health education specialist is working with a local community to institute a smoke-free environment in local businesses, agencies, and restaurants throughout the entire community. What type of health strategy would the education specialist implement in the community?
Position statement
Ordinance
Executive order
Regulation
Ordinance
When implementing well designed health education class lessons for adult learners, the health education specialist should incorporate which of the following adult learning principles?
Progressing from unknown to known material through the lesson
Moving from complex to simple concepts throughout the lesson
Moving as quickly as possible through the lesson
Stating the purpose of the lesson
Stating the purpose of the lesson
Health education specialist wishing to target subgroups of the priority population should:
Create a generic newsletter and send it to the entire community
Always begin with social media, as word can spread quickly using this type of media
Advertise in the newspaper because this is a form of mass media
First consider how the priority population prefers to get their information
First consider how the priority population prefers to get their information
If selecting items from an existing instrument, which of the following is the correct procedure?
One cannot select individual or groups of items on an instrument and maintaining validity
Keep the instrument short, select one or two items from a scale or subscale, and compile into one instrument
Retain the original language of the question to maintaining validity, even when using on a different population
Retain scales to cover an entire domain, rather than select one question for a complex domain
Retain scales to cover an entire domain, rather than select one question for a complex domain
Which of the following is a common way to illustrate alignment of programs with an organization’s mission and goals?
Gantt chart
Logic model
Timeline
Evaluation plan
Logic model
A hospital is expanding outreach services and facilities 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?
Incidence rate
Prevalence rate
Attack rate
Natality rate
Prevalence rate
The community heart health coalition was formed about one year ago, and it is now in the process of collecting needs assessment data and creating a strategic plan. This coalition is cycling through which stage of coalition development?
Outcome
Maintenance
Implementation
Formation
Implementation
The lead and radon program at a state health department did not have its funding renewed and is scheduled to end in the next twelve months. A strategic plan, vision and program evaluation data are available. What other sustainability domain or element should a health education specialist explore for sustaining the program?
Collaboration or partnership
Creating a new vision
Volunteer or intern staff
Free materials and services
Collaboration or partnership
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Framework for Program Evaluation, being “realistic, prudent, diplomatic and frugal” is part of which standard for effective evaluation?
Feasibility
Utility
Propriety
Accuracy
Feasibility
Data storage is an example of which type of technology need?
Infrastructure
Program delivery
Collaboration technology
Knowledge
Infrastructure
A health education specialist has been asked to collect qualitative data from participants. Given a short time period to collect data, which method takes the least amount of time?
Interviews
Focus groups
Delphi technique
Quantitative surveys
Focus Groups
Program planning begins with:
A measurement of social marketing process
An identification of the specific focus of an intervention
An assessment of existing health needs and problems
The creation of program and learning objectives
An assessment of existing health needs and problems
As a health education specialist monitors program implementation, he/she finds several lessons were not implemented as originally planned. This illustrates lack of:
Reliability
Fidelity
Validity
Assessment
Fidelity
A health education specialist gives data from an evaluation regarding drug use in a community to a community volunteer to enter. Some of the particiaptns wrote their name on top of the survey. What ethical issue has occurred?
Failure to obtain informed consent
Lack of objectivity
Breach of confidentiality
Failure to discuss benefits and risks
Breach of confidentiality
If a health education specialist is trying to gain support for a program within an organization, which is one way to illustrate a rationale for the program to key stakeholders?
Use a logic model to show how the program aligns with the organization’s mission
Create an evaluation plan and show how each variable will be measured
Present a timeline to illustrate how the program will impact the organization
Present secondary data to illustrate program need
Use a logic model to show how the program aligns with the organization’s mission
Conducting a capacity assessment focuses on identifying community:
Resources
Heath problems
Weaknesses
Needs
Resources
In a community-based heart disease intervention, mass hypertension screening at the shopping mall were used as the “kick-off” activity. Which level of prevention are the screening?
Diagnostic
Primary
Tertiary
Secondary
Secondary
Which of the following is a SMART training objective?
Participants will report all cases of sexual misconduct by the end of the session
Participants will increase their knowledge of sexual misconduct by the end of the session
Participants will be able to list two types of sexual misconduct
Training participatns will be able to list three resources for patients who report sexual misconduct by the end of the training session
Training participants will be able to list three resources for patients who report sexual misconduct by the end of the training session
A health education specialist wants to collect ratio data on smoking rates. Which of the following questions would achieve this level of measurement?
Do you smoke?
Do you smoke 1-10,11-20, or 20-30 cigarettes per day?
How many cigarettes do you smoke per day?
Do you smoke 0, 1-10, or 20+ cigarettes per day?
How many cigarettes do you smoke per day?
One of the ways to comprehensively engage the priority population in th program planning, implementation, and evaluation process is to:
Develop a partnership between two community organizations
Use community-based participatory research
Use a docs group to assist with the needs assessment
Ask a stakeholder to serve as a consultant for the project
Use community-based participatory research