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A health education specialist wishes to use the ecological model in a needs assessment. Which of the
following is an example of a way to assess levels of this model? ✔Correct Answer-Assessing
attitudes, behaviors, policies, and social norms in a community
If a health education specialist wished to use the application level of Bloom's taxonomy in an
intervention aimed at decreasing saturated fat consumption, what might the health education
specialist have the priority population do? ✔Correct Answer-Demonstrate how to prepare a
healthy meal.
A health education specialist is trying to find data on emergency room visits and hospitalization in
the community. Which of the following secondary sources is the best source of this data?
✔Correct Answer-NHCS
A health education specialist is asked to measure actual use of a walking trail in a local community.
Which of the following methods is best to measure actual use of the trail over a period of a week?
✔Correct Answer-Observation
What would a health education specialist need to know to calculate age-specific death rates from
cardiovascular disease? ✔Correct Answer-The breakdown of deaths by age group and the midyear
population by age.
The health education specialist chose the PRECEDE-PROCEED Model as the organizational framework
for the needs assessment of a childhood obesity intervention. Which of the following best represents
the Behavioral and Environmental Factors phase? ✔Correct Answer-The school districts are
institutions with agents that can make change.
Using a written questionnaire, a cross-sectional survey about personal alcohol, tobacco, and other
drug use behaviors was administered 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
behaviors occurred or did not occur using: ✔Correct Answer-Proxy measures
A health education specialist is concerned about HIV infection in the community. The health
education specialist might use the data from a graph on estimated new HIV infections in the US,
2010: ✔Correct Answer-To compare to primary data in the community to better understand the
community need
The health education specialist is working with a local community to institute a smoke free
environment in local businesses, agencies, and restaurant throughout the entire community. What
type of health strategy would the health education specialist implement in the community?
✔Correct Answer-Ordinance
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 cruising on this ocean liner. Health
authorities need to know the number of all passengers who became ill, as well as those who traveled
on the ocean liner. Which rate should the health education specialist calculate to provide information
to health authorities? ✔Correct Answer-Attack rate
, Although the mortality rates of children have declined over the years, the leading cause of mortality
in children is: ✔Correct Answer-Unintentional injury
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? ✔Correct Answer-
Focus groups
Which represents primary sources that could be used for a community needs assessment?
✔Correct Answer-Informal interviews, observations, and surveys
A health education specialist needs to determine specific alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use
prevention needs and immediately prioritize those needs with a few experts from the priority
population. Which primary data collection technique would be the best to use in this scenario?
✔Correct Answer-Nominal group process
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? ✔Correct Answer-Prevalence rate
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:
✔Correct Answer-The generalizability of the findings
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?
✔Correct Answer-Synthesizing
In a community, twice as many people died over the course of one year in house fires than in car
crashes. Community members demand the health education specialist immediately create a fire
prevention intervention. Before planning the fire prevention intervention, the health education
specialist should first determine the: ✔Correct Answer-Population at risk
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: ✔Correct Answer-health disparities
Conducting a capacity assessment focuses on identifying community: ✔Correct Answer-Resources
A health education specialist has been charged to develop a comprehensive childhood obesity
intervention in a community identified as having a high prevalence of childhood obesity. What
planning model would best assist the health education specialist in developing the program?
✔Correct Answer-Precede-Proceed Model
Which method represents a secondary source for a needs assessment? ✔Correct Answer-
Published data from a CDC article