CHES Practice Exam Questions (From 7th edition)
c. Health Belief Model 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 A Health Education specialist is considering how people might adopt a program in
what exists 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 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 Data storage is an example of which type of technology need?
a. infrastructure
b. program delivery
c. colloboration technology
d. knowledge
d. communication channels 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 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 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 Which of the following statements about informed consent is correct?
voluntary and may be terminated at any time
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
, CHES Practice Exam Questions (From 7th edition)
b. the generalization of the findings 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. 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 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 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 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 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 Consumption, medication compliance, and self-care are considered which type of
factors related to health?
a. attitudes
b. environmental
c. behavioral
d. genetic
, CHES Practice Exam Questions (From 7th edition)
d. program components being implemented in the correct Health departments and worksites are implementing a new health
order 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 When choosing a policy or issue to advocate on with a legislator, which criteria
the proposed policy of advocacy 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 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 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
c. inputs
d. processes
c. institutional In the social ecological model, a school or worksite would fall under which factor or
level?
a. community
b. individual
c. institutional
d. interpersonal
a. change the core elements that make the program A local health department has decided to adopt an evidence-based program for
effective. obesity prevention with educational materials that are not completely compatible
with the community it services. In the process of adapting the materials to make
them more suitable for the population, the health education specialist should be
cautious not to:
a. change the core elements that make the program effective.
b. modify materials to fit the population's culture, age, and context.
c. substitute statistics for other racial or ethnic populations.
d. tailor instructions, incentives, or activities to the audience.
d. retain scales to cover an entire domain, rather than If selecting items from an existing instrument, which of the following is the correct
select on question for a complex domain. procedure?
a. one cannot select individual or groups of items on an instrument and maintain
validity.
b. keep the instrument short, select one or two items from a scale or subscale, and
compile one instrument
c. retain the original language of the question to maintain validity, even when using
on a different population
d. retain scales to cover an entire domain, rather than select one question for a
complex domain.
c. Health Belief Model 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 A Health Education specialist is considering how people might adopt a program in
what exists 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 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 Data storage is an example of which type of technology need?
a. infrastructure
b. program delivery
c. colloboration technology
d. knowledge
d. communication channels 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 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 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 Which of the following statements about informed consent is correct?
voluntary and may be terminated at any time
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
, CHES Practice Exam Questions (From 7th edition)
b. the generalization of the findings 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. 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 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 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 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 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 Consumption, medication compliance, and self-care are considered which type of
factors related to health?
a. attitudes
b. environmental
c. behavioral
d. genetic
, CHES Practice Exam Questions (From 7th edition)
d. program components being implemented in the correct Health departments and worksites are implementing a new health
order 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 When choosing a policy or issue to advocate on with a legislator, which criteria
the proposed policy of advocacy 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 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 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
c. inputs
d. processes
c. institutional In the social ecological model, a school or worksite would fall under which factor or
level?
a. community
b. individual
c. institutional
d. interpersonal
a. change the core elements that make the program A local health department has decided to adopt an evidence-based program for
effective. obesity prevention with educational materials that are not completely compatible
with the community it services. In the process of adapting the materials to make
them more suitable for the population, the health education specialist should be
cautious not to:
a. change the core elements that make the program effective.
b. modify materials to fit the population's culture, age, and context.
c. substitute statistics for other racial or ethnic populations.
d. tailor instructions, incentives, or activities to the audience.
d. retain scales to cover an entire domain, rather than If selecting items from an existing instrument, which of the following is the correct
select on question for a complex domain. procedure?
a. one cannot select individual or groups of items on an instrument and maintain
validity.
b. keep the instrument short, select one or two items from a scale or subscale, and
compile one instrument
c. retain the original language of the question to maintain validity, even when using
on a different population
d. retain scales to cover an entire domain, rather than select one question for a
complex domain.
