UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
Question: a state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope
with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a
contribution to her or his community
Correct Answer: what is mental health (WHO, 2010)?
Question: what is mental health (Canadian Mental Health Association)?
Correct Answer: resilience, self-actualization, balance, and an ability to enjoy life
Question: what is mental illness?
Correct Answer: mental health conditions or disorders that affect your mood, thinking, and behaviour
Question: what are examples of mental illness?
Correct Answer: depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, eating disorders, and addictive
behaviour
Question: what do canadians sug- gest about depression and anxiety vs schizo- phrenia?
Correct Answer: depression and anxiety should be referred to as mental health prob- lems while
schizophrenia as an illness
Question: what do people suggest schizophrenia should be referred to as rather than mental health?
Correct Answer: brain disease, so people stop associating it with stress
Question: what are examples of mental health issues?
Correct Answer: anxiety and panic attacks, bipolar disorder, depression, hypomania and mania, OCD,
phobias, PTSD, schizophrenia, self esteem, and stress
Question: who has mental health is- sues?
Correct Answer: everyone, me, friends, relatives, work colleagues
,Question: what is nature/nuture?
Correct Answer: the idea of mental health varies with culture and with time and we currently see
mental health disorders as an interaction of individual vulnerability and
environmental factors
Question: what is the heritability of bipolar?
Correct Answer: 85%
Question: what do western cul- tures think of schizophre- nia and bipolar?
Correct Answer: they are more serious mental illness that are biological in nature and require
biological treatment (medicine)
Question: what does research show is most effective for treat- ing depression?
Correct Answer: combining medication and therapy
Question: what does PTSD originate from?
Correct Answer: from stressful or difficult life experiences such as sexual abuse or war
Question: what was believed to cause mental illness in the 18th century?
Correct Answer: rapid social change, urbanization, and dislocations in society
Question: what are mental disor- ders a product of based on the stress-vulnerabili- ty model?
Correct Answer: intrinsic factors (vulnerability) and environmental factors (stress)
Question: what is vulnerability in- clude and influenced by?
Correct Answer: the idea of genetic endowment, can be acquired throughout life
Question: what do stressful events do to the immune sys- tem?
Correct Answer: they weaken the immune system and lead to increased mental health symptoms
Question: what do public policies and social norms influ- ence?
Correct Answer: access and opportunity leading to inequities
Question: what are thought of as the components of bio- logical determinants?
, Correct Answer: genetic risk, injury, pathogens, or toxins
Question: what are the compo- nents of biological deter- minants influenced by?
Correct Answer: social determinants
Question: what is exposure to tox- ins or pathogens or injury related to?
Correct Answer: adverse community or societal factors
Question: what is chance of injury on the job influenced by and what does injury in- fluence?
Correct Answer: social determinants and mental health
Question: what group of people had higher levels of lone- liness during the covid 19 pandemic?
Correct Answer: those with an annual income of less than $50,000/yr
Question: what group of people displayed greater anxi- ety and depression symp- toms during covid
19?
Correct Answer: young females (18-29)
Question: what 3 groups of people had higher anxiety, de- pression, and loneliness during covid 19?
Correct Answer: individuals from lower income households, individuals living alone or with parents,
and young females
Question: what age groups were less likely to report excel- lent or very good mental health during
covid 19?
Correct Answer: all age groups except those aged 65 or older
Question: how many aged 15-24 re- ported excellent or very good mental health dur- ing covid 19?
Correct Answer: 42%
Question: what gender had a more severe negative on men- tal health from covid 19?
Correct Answer: female
Question: how many people re- sponded to the canadian perspectives surgery se- ries 1?
Correct Answer: more than 4600 people