CHES PRACTICE EXAM (FROM 7TH EDITION)
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
c. Health Belief Model - Answers - According to which theory or model do people
assess the threat of an emerging diease by assessing their perceived susceptibility
against the severity of the disease.
a. Diffusion of innovations
b. Social Cognitive Theory
c. Health Belief Model
d. Social Marketing
b. focus on how new and different the program is from what exists - Answers - A Health
Education specialist is considering how people might adopt a program in order to
understand how best to tailor specific messages. If the health education specialist wants
to get the first people to adopt the program using the Diffusion of Innovations, which
strategy might be best?
a. Show the audience how most people have been enjoying the program
b. Focus on how new and different the program is from what exists
c. Wait for the opinion leaders to adopt
d. focus on how the program adheres to social norms
d. health disparities - Answers - 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:
a. health equity
b. health determinants
c. health capacity
d. health disparities
a. infrastructure - Answers - Data storage is an example of which type of technology
need?
a. infrastructure
b. program delivery
c. colloboration technology
d. knowledge
d. communication channels - Answers - Newsletters, community meetings, public
service announcements, and social networking sites are examples of:
,a. social norms
b. communication campaigns
c. social media
d. communication channels
c. Health policy - Answers - Smoking bans in a restaurant are which type of strategy in a
community-based smoking prevention program?
a. health communication
b. health engineering
c. health policy
d. health mobilization
b. results - Answers - Which section of an original research paper presents evidence
tested against the stated hypotheses or research questions and presents the statistical
findings
a. methodology
b. results
c. discussion
d. conclusion
b. it explains the benefits, risks, and participation is voluntary and may be terminated at
any time - Answers - Which of the following statements about informed consent is
correct?
a. It only has to be completed when a health education specialist is working with
children or adolescents
b. It explains the benefits, risks, and participation is voluntary and may be terminated at
any time
c. It protects the health education specialist in cases of negligence from being sued by
participants who were harmed
d. It is necessary for medical research, but not behavior-focused health education
programs
b. the generalization of the findings - Answers - The health department administrator
just returned from a meeting where someone used a focus group to gather data and
now 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 town to answer
questions about which heart disease intervention the department should offer city wide.
Knowing the limitations of this strategy, the health education specialist is rightfully
concerned about:
a. the relibility of the findings
b. the generalizations of the findings
c. the validity of the findings
,d. the accuracy of the findings
a. what tactics should be used to influence people. - Answers - When developing
advocacy plans, which questions would be considered last?
a. what tactics should be used to influence people?
b. what are the goals of the advocacy effort?
c. who are our allies and opponents?
d. what organizational issues might facilitate the effort?
D. ERIC, education resource information center - Answers - A health education
specialist is asked to find school health resources for physical activity. The most
appropriate bibliographic database search is:
a. MEDLINE
b. EBMR (evidence-based medicine reviews)
c. CHID (comparative history of ideas)
d. ERIC (education resources information center)
a. revealed prior to hiring - Answers - While hiring new employees, the health education
specialist should contact the candidates' professional references and validate the
employees' degrees. In doing so, discrepancies may be:
a. revealed prior to hiring
b. concealed and are a waste of time
c. able to reveal the exact quality of persons
d. complicate the termination process.
c. supporting participants - Answers - The health education specialist has core
substance abuse prevention coalition members in place and is currently broadening
group representation. Some new members only contribute money to the coalition and
are categorized as:
a. occasional participants
b. executive participants
c. supporting participants
d. active participants
d. advisory board - Answers - A group of health education specialists run into a situation
where they need to elicit specialized guidance and expert opinion on a specific health
topic in order to aid in decision-making. Of the following, which type of gruop should be
consulted?
a. committee-of-the-whole
b. task-force
c. standing committee
, d. advisory board
c. behavioral - Answers - Consumption, medication compliance, and self-care are
considered which type of factors related to health?
a. attitudes
b. environmental
c. behavioral
d. genetic
d. program components being implemented in the correct order - Answers - Health
departments and worksites are implementing a new health education/promotion
program to increase influenza vaccine rates for adults in a five county area. What will
the project lead focus on to assess the fidelity of implementation?
a. location of vaccinations for children
b. workers reading materials distributed to all worksites
c. amount of vaccine available to the public
d. Program components being implemented in the correct order
a. how receptive the community or target population is to the proposed policy of
advocacy - Answers - When choosing a policy or issue to advocate on with a legislator,
which criteria should be considered first?
a. how receptive the community or target population is to the proposed policy or
advocacy
b. if there have been any peer-reviewed articles published on this issue or policy
c. if advocating on the policy or issue would violate the code of ethics for health
education
d. if there is potential funding for the proposed policy
B.ordinance - Answers - The health education specialist is working with a local
community to institute a smoke free environment and local businesses, agencies, and
restaurants throughout the entire community. What type of health strategy would the
health education specialist implement in the community?
A. Position statement
B. Ordinance
C. Executive order
D. Regulation
c. inputs - Answers - A health education specialist is identifying the types of activities to
be included in a health educadtion/promotion program. In a logic model, these activities
would be included in:
a. outcomes
b. outputs
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
c. Health Belief Model - Answers - According to which theory or model do people
assess the threat of an emerging diease by assessing their perceived susceptibility
against the severity of the disease.
a. Diffusion of innovations
b. Social Cognitive Theory
c. Health Belief Model
d. Social Marketing
b. focus on how new and different the program is from what exists - Answers - A Health
Education specialist is considering how people might adopt a program in order to
understand how best to tailor specific messages. If the health education specialist wants
to get the first people to adopt the program using the Diffusion of Innovations, which
strategy might be best?
a. Show the audience how most people have been enjoying the program
b. Focus on how new and different the program is from what exists
c. Wait for the opinion leaders to adopt
d. focus on how the program adheres to social norms
d. health disparities - Answers - 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:
a. health equity
b. health determinants
c. health capacity
d. health disparities
a. infrastructure - Answers - Data storage is an example of which type of technology
need?
a. infrastructure
b. program delivery
c. colloboration technology
d. knowledge
d. communication channels - Answers - Newsletters, community meetings, public
service announcements, and social networking sites are examples of:
,a. social norms
b. communication campaigns
c. social media
d. communication channels
c. Health policy - Answers - Smoking bans in a restaurant are which type of strategy in a
community-based smoking prevention program?
a. health communication
b. health engineering
c. health policy
d. health mobilization
b. results - Answers - Which section of an original research paper presents evidence
tested against the stated hypotheses or research questions and presents the statistical
findings
a. methodology
b. results
c. discussion
d. conclusion
b. it explains the benefits, risks, and participation is voluntary and may be terminated at
any time - Answers - Which of the following statements about informed consent is
correct?
a. It only has to be completed when a health education specialist is working with
children or adolescents
b. It explains the benefits, risks, and participation is voluntary and may be terminated at
any time
c. It protects the health education specialist in cases of negligence from being sued by
participants who were harmed
d. It is necessary for medical research, but not behavior-focused health education
programs
b. the generalization of the findings - Answers - The health department administrator
just returned from a meeting where someone used a focus group to gather data and
now 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 town to answer
questions about which heart disease intervention the department should offer city wide.
Knowing the limitations of this strategy, the health education specialist is rightfully
concerned about:
a. the relibility of the findings
b. the generalizations of the findings
c. the validity of the findings
,d. the accuracy of the findings
a. what tactics should be used to influence people. - Answers - When developing
advocacy plans, which questions would be considered last?
a. what tactics should be used to influence people?
b. what are the goals of the advocacy effort?
c. who are our allies and opponents?
d. what organizational issues might facilitate the effort?
D. ERIC, education resource information center - Answers - A health education
specialist is asked to find school health resources for physical activity. The most
appropriate bibliographic database search is:
a. MEDLINE
b. EBMR (evidence-based medicine reviews)
c. CHID (comparative history of ideas)
d. ERIC (education resources information center)
a. revealed prior to hiring - Answers - While hiring new employees, the health education
specialist should contact the candidates' professional references and validate the
employees' degrees. In doing so, discrepancies may be:
a. revealed prior to hiring
b. concealed and are a waste of time
c. able to reveal the exact quality of persons
d. complicate the termination process.
c. supporting participants - Answers - The health education specialist has core
substance abuse prevention coalition members in place and is currently broadening
group representation. Some new members only contribute money to the coalition and
are categorized as:
a. occasional participants
b. executive participants
c. supporting participants
d. active participants
d. advisory board - Answers - A group of health education specialists run into a situation
where they need to elicit specialized guidance and expert opinion on a specific health
topic in order to aid in decision-making. Of the following, which type of gruop should be
consulted?
a. committee-of-the-whole
b. task-force
c. standing committee
, d. advisory board
c. behavioral - Answers - Consumption, medication compliance, and self-care are
considered which type of factors related to health?
a. attitudes
b. environmental
c. behavioral
d. genetic
d. program components being implemented in the correct order - Answers - Health
departments and worksites are implementing a new health education/promotion
program to increase influenza vaccine rates for adults in a five county area. What will
the project lead focus on to assess the fidelity of implementation?
a. location of vaccinations for children
b. workers reading materials distributed to all worksites
c. amount of vaccine available to the public
d. Program components being implemented in the correct order
a. how receptive the community or target population is to the proposed policy of
advocacy - Answers - When choosing a policy or issue to advocate on with a legislator,
which criteria should be considered first?
a. how receptive the community or target population is to the proposed policy or
advocacy
b. if there have been any peer-reviewed articles published on this issue or policy
c. if advocating on the policy or issue would violate the code of ethics for health
education
d. if there is potential funding for the proposed policy
B.ordinance - Answers - The health education specialist is working with a local
community to institute a smoke free environment and local businesses, agencies, and
restaurants throughout the entire community. What type of health strategy would the
health education specialist implement in the community?
A. Position statement
B. Ordinance
C. Executive order
D. Regulation
c. inputs - Answers - A health education specialist is identifying the types of activities to
be included in a health educadtion/promotion program. In a logic model, these activities
would be included in:
a. outcomes
b. outputs
