CHES Comprehensive Form 2026-B
CHES - Certified Health Education Specialist | VERIFIED
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - LATEST VERSION |
2026/2027
NATIONAL HEALTH EDUCATION CERTIFICATION REVIEW
Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES®)
1. A health education specialist conducts focus groups with residents of
a rural township to learn about barriers to prenatal care. The
information gathered from these sessions is best classified as:
A. Archival data
B. Primary data
C. Surveillance data
D. Secondary data
B. Primary data
Data collected directly by the specialist for the purpose at hand is primary
data; existing datasets gathered by others are secondary.
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2. Which activity is the central focus of community asset mapping?
A. Documenting the leading causes of death in the county
B. Identifying existing resources, skills, and strengths within the
community
C. Estimating the cost of proposed interventions
D. Listing services that the community lacks
B. Identifying existing resources, skills, and strengths within the
community
Asset mapping takes a strengths-based view, cataloguing individuals,
associations, and institutions that can be mobilized.
3. Which national surveillance system collects state-level data on adult
health behaviors through telephone interviews?
A. National Vital Statistics System (NVSS)
B. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
C. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
D. Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)
B. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
BRFSS is a CDC-coordinated telephone survey of adults conducted in all
states and territories.
4. The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System primarily monitors:
A. Immunization coverage among infants
B. Hospital admissions among adolescents
C. Health-risk behaviors among high school students
D. Chronic disease rates among adults over 65
C. Health-risk behaviors among high school students
YRBSS tracks priority risk behaviors such as tobacco use, violence, sexual
behavior, and physical activity in grades 9 through 12.
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5. What feature distinguishes NHANES from most other national health
surveys?
A. It surveys only hospital inpatients
B. It relies solely on self-reported online questionnaires
C. It combines interviews with physical examinations and laboratory tests
D. It collects data exclusively from death certificates
C. It combines interviews with physical examinations and laboratory
tests
NHANES uses mobile examination centers, allowing direct measurement
of conditions such as hypertension and obesity.
6. A specialist schedules one-on-one conversations with a school
principal, a pastor, and a clinic director to understand community
concerns. This method is called:
A. Nominal group process
B. Photovoice
C. Key informant interviewing
D. Delphi technique
C. Key informant interviewing
Key informants are individuals with special knowledge of the community
whose insights are gathered through in-depth interviews.
7. In the nominal group technique, participants first:
A. Observe the community while driving through it
B. Respond to a series of mailed questionnaires
C. Debate openly until a single leader decides
D. Generate ideas silently and independently before sharing them in
round-robin fashion
D. Generate ideas silently and independently before sharing them in
round-robin fashion
Silent idea generation prevents dominant voices from steering the group
before ideas are listed, discussed, and ranked.
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8. Which technique uses successive rounds of questionnaires sent to
experts to reach consensus without face-to-face meetings?
A. Delphi technique
B. Nominal group technique
C. Focus group
D. Windshield survey
A. Delphi technique
The Delphi technique gathers anonymous expert opinion in rounds,
feeding back results until agreement emerges.
9. In the PRECEDE-PROCEED model, the first phase of assessment
focuses on:
A. Predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing factors
B. Quality of life and the social concerns of the population
C. Administrative and policy resources
D. Outcome evaluation of health status
B. Quality of life and the social concerns of the population
Phase 1 is the social assessment, which identifies what the population
perceives as its quality-of-life concerns.
10. A woman believes she is unlikely to develop breast cancer because
no one in her family has had it. In the PRECEDE framework, this belief
is a:
A. Reinforcing factor
B. Enabling factor
C. Predisposing factor
D. Environmental factor
C. Predisposing factor
Predisposing factors include knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and values that
provide the motivation for behavior.
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CHES - Certified Health Education Specialist | VERIFIED
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - LATEST VERSION |
2026/2027
NATIONAL HEALTH EDUCATION CERTIFICATION REVIEW
Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES®)
1. A health education specialist conducts focus groups with residents of
a rural township to learn about barriers to prenatal care. The
information gathered from these sessions is best classified as:
A. Archival data
B. Primary data
C. Surveillance data
D. Secondary data
B. Primary data
Data collected directly by the specialist for the purpose at hand is primary
data; existing datasets gathered by others are secondary.
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2. Which activity is the central focus of community asset mapping?
A. Documenting the leading causes of death in the county
B. Identifying existing resources, skills, and strengths within the
community
C. Estimating the cost of proposed interventions
D. Listing services that the community lacks
B. Identifying existing resources, skills, and strengths within the
community
Asset mapping takes a strengths-based view, cataloguing individuals,
associations, and institutions that can be mobilized.
3. Which national surveillance system collects state-level data on adult
health behaviors through telephone interviews?
A. National Vital Statistics System (NVSS)
B. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
C. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
D. Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)
B. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
BRFSS is a CDC-coordinated telephone survey of adults conducted in all
states and territories.
4. The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System primarily monitors:
A. Immunization coverage among infants
B. Hospital admissions among adolescents
C. Health-risk behaviors among high school students
D. Chronic disease rates among adults over 65
C. Health-risk behaviors among high school students
YRBSS tracks priority risk behaviors such as tobacco use, violence, sexual
behavior, and physical activity in grades 9 through 12.
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5. What feature distinguishes NHANES from most other national health
surveys?
A. It surveys only hospital inpatients
B. It relies solely on self-reported online questionnaires
C. It combines interviews with physical examinations and laboratory tests
D. It collects data exclusively from death certificates
C. It combines interviews with physical examinations and laboratory
tests
NHANES uses mobile examination centers, allowing direct measurement
of conditions such as hypertension and obesity.
6. A specialist schedules one-on-one conversations with a school
principal, a pastor, and a clinic director to understand community
concerns. This method is called:
A. Nominal group process
B. Photovoice
C. Key informant interviewing
D. Delphi technique
C. Key informant interviewing
Key informants are individuals with special knowledge of the community
whose insights are gathered through in-depth interviews.
7. In the nominal group technique, participants first:
A. Observe the community while driving through it
B. Respond to a series of mailed questionnaires
C. Debate openly until a single leader decides
D. Generate ideas silently and independently before sharing them in
round-robin fashion
D. Generate ideas silently and independently before sharing them in
round-robin fashion
Silent idea generation prevents dominant voices from steering the group
before ideas are listed, discussed, and ranked.
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8. Which technique uses successive rounds of questionnaires sent to
experts to reach consensus without face-to-face meetings?
A. Delphi technique
B. Nominal group technique
C. Focus group
D. Windshield survey
A. Delphi technique
The Delphi technique gathers anonymous expert opinion in rounds,
feeding back results until agreement emerges.
9. In the PRECEDE-PROCEED model, the first phase of assessment
focuses on:
A. Predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing factors
B. Quality of life and the social concerns of the population
C. Administrative and policy resources
D. Outcome evaluation of health status
B. Quality of life and the social concerns of the population
Phase 1 is the social assessment, which identifies what the population
perceives as its quality-of-life concerns.
10. A woman believes she is unlikely to develop breast cancer because
no one in her family has had it. In the PRECEDE framework, this belief
is a:
A. Reinforcing factor
B. Enabling factor
C. Predisposing factor
D. Environmental factor
C. Predisposing factor
Predisposing factors include knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and values that
provide the motivation for behavior.
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