Psychological Issues in Advancing and Terminal Illness
Health Behaviors
Patient-Provider Relations
Using Health Services
100
A health psychologist who designs a media campaign to get people to improve their diets focuses on?
What is health promotion and maintenance
100
What are the 2 main causes of death in the first year of life?
What is SIDS and congenital abnormalities
100
What is Modeling
Learning that occurs by witnessing/watching another person perform a behavior
100
Define PPO (preferred provider organization)
What is a group of affiliated providers who have agreed to charge preestablished rates for particular services
100
What 2 main findings have occurred with individuals with differences in neuroticism?
What is reporting and recognition
200
A health psychologist who works with people who are already ill focuses on?
What is prevention and treatment of illness
200
After infancy what is the main cause of death among children younger than age 15?
What is accidents
200
What is the best definition of health promotion?
What is a general philosophy that good health is a personal and collective achievement
200
Pre-Natal visit, First dentist appointment, onset of chronic illness such as diabetes or heart disease.
What is a teachable moment.
200
Complete the following sentence
Symptoms that affect a highly valued part of the body are usually interpreted as...
What is more serious than other symptoms
300
Etiology refers to?
What is causes of illness
300
The death rate dropped significantly among middle aged men in what cause of death?
What is cancers
300
According to the text identify 3 main reasons why changing health behaviors is beneficial.
What is reduces the number of deaths due to disease related to lifestyle.
increases individual longevity and life expectancy
delay the onset of chronic diseases and enhance the quality of life
300
True or False
Patients often respond to different cues than do providers and provide faulty cues about their true concerns
What is True
300
When do illness schemas develop?
What is during childhood
400
Refers to the fact that certain times are better than others for teaching particular health practices
Definition of a teachable moment.
400
Complete the following sentence:
Death in the elderly is...
What is usually accompanied by a shorter terminal phase
400
Considering the relationship of chronological age to health behaviors, good health behaviors, would be LEAST likely to be observed during?
What is adolescence and early adulthood
400
According to the text in 1999 what was the 6th leading cause of death in the United States.
What is nosocomial infection
400
According to the text, the primary use of the internet has been for?
What is locating health information
500
Alexander and Dunbar linked what two things?
What is specific personalities to specific illnesses
500
What is the title of a person who studies death and dying?
What is thanatologists
500
According to the text, researchers suggest that most people's perceptions of their own health risks are?
What is unrealistically optimistic
500
True or False
According to the text, the number of psychologist in a hospital setting have more than doubled in the last 10 years.
What is true
500
What is the correct order of delay in seeking treatment.
What is appraisal, illness, behavioral, and medical delay