MPH Comprehensive Exam Review
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
The PRECEDE-PROCEED Model might use which theory or model to help understand
why some women do not get mammograms during the examination of predisposing,
enabling, and reinforcing factors?
Diffusion of Innovations
The Health Belief Model
Transtheoretical model
Community Coalition Action Theory - ✔✔The Health Belief Model
Recycling glass bottles is an example of which type of social product?
Behavior
Service
Idea
Attitude - ✔✔Behavior
Which model or theory is a guide for impact or outcome evaluation?
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,RE-AIM Model
Ecological Models
PRECEDE-PROCEED Model
Social Marketing - ✔✔RE-AIM Model
Intervention at individual and group levels have been conducted to reduce HIV risk
behaviors among the most vulnerable populations at highest risk in the United States.
In spite of these interventions, African-American women remain the fastest growing
segment of incident AIDS cases. Obviously, new research studies are needed to provide
intervention at individual, family, community, and society levels. As an HIV/AIDS
interventionist, which of the following factors will you consider as HIV/AIDS-related
behavior to incorporate into your model in reducing HIV risky behaviors?
Subjective norms
Self-efficacy
Knowledge
Perceived risk
All of the above - ✔✔All of the above
Obesity intervention often utilized community trials to increase physical activity. These
trials are usually part of a "healthy heart" program and incorporate social and
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,environmental measures, including public service announcements about physical
activity and total well-being. This approach in terms of health behavior model is best
described as the:
Social support model
Ecologic model
Health belief model
Transtheoretical model
Information, motivation and
skill building model - ✔✔Ecologic model
Multiple regression procedures may be used when two or more interval-level measures
serve as predictors of some normally distributed interval-level dependent variable. In
this model, the regression coefficient for any particular independent or explanatory
variable (X1) represents the change in the response or dependent variable (Y) associated
with a one-unit change in X1, while controlling for or maintaining other predictors (X2,
X3, etc.) at constant. If required to use this predictive model in the analysis of study
data, which of the following assumptions are NOT necessary for a valid result?
All variables are interval- or ratio-scaled
The dependent variable should be normally distributed around the prediction line
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, The independent variable should be normally distributed around the prediction line
None of the above - ✔✔The independent variable should be normally distributed
around the prediction line
The bio-psychosocial model of health, which focuses on the multifactorial causes of
disease, could be applied to which of the following conditions as an attempt to
understand their ethio-pathogenesis EXCEPT?
Cancer
Otitis
Cardiovascular disorders
a and c only
Diabetes - ✔✔Otitis
In Phase 3, which level of theory is most appropriate for examining reinforcing factors
and indirect communication channels?
Community-level theories
Policy based theories
Individual-level theories
Interpersonal-level theories - ✔✔Interpersonal-level theories
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
The PRECEDE-PROCEED Model might use which theory or model to help understand
why some women do not get mammograms during the examination of predisposing,
enabling, and reinforcing factors?
Diffusion of Innovations
The Health Belief Model
Transtheoretical model
Community Coalition Action Theory - ✔✔The Health Belief Model
Recycling glass bottles is an example of which type of social product?
Behavior
Service
Idea
Attitude - ✔✔Behavior
Which model or theory is a guide for impact or outcome evaluation?
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,RE-AIM Model
Ecological Models
PRECEDE-PROCEED Model
Social Marketing - ✔✔RE-AIM Model
Intervention at individual and group levels have been conducted to reduce HIV risk
behaviors among the most vulnerable populations at highest risk in the United States.
In spite of these interventions, African-American women remain the fastest growing
segment of incident AIDS cases. Obviously, new research studies are needed to provide
intervention at individual, family, community, and society levels. As an HIV/AIDS
interventionist, which of the following factors will you consider as HIV/AIDS-related
behavior to incorporate into your model in reducing HIV risky behaviors?
Subjective norms
Self-efficacy
Knowledge
Perceived risk
All of the above - ✔✔All of the above
Obesity intervention often utilized community trials to increase physical activity. These
trials are usually part of a "healthy heart" program and incorporate social and
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,environmental measures, including public service announcements about physical
activity and total well-being. This approach in terms of health behavior model is best
described as the:
Social support model
Ecologic model
Health belief model
Transtheoretical model
Information, motivation and
skill building model - ✔✔Ecologic model
Multiple regression procedures may be used when two or more interval-level measures
serve as predictors of some normally distributed interval-level dependent variable. In
this model, the regression coefficient for any particular independent or explanatory
variable (X1) represents the change in the response or dependent variable (Y) associated
with a one-unit change in X1, while controlling for or maintaining other predictors (X2,
X3, etc.) at constant. If required to use this predictive model in the analysis of study
data, which of the following assumptions are NOT necessary for a valid result?
All variables are interval- or ratio-scaled
The dependent variable should be normally distributed around the prediction line
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, The independent variable should be normally distributed around the prediction line
None of the above - ✔✔The independent variable should be normally distributed
around the prediction line
The bio-psychosocial model of health, which focuses on the multifactorial causes of
disease, could be applied to which of the following conditions as an attempt to
understand their ethio-pathogenesis EXCEPT?
Cancer
Otitis
Cardiovascular disorders
a and c only
Diabetes - ✔✔Otitis
In Phase 3, which level of theory is most appropriate for examining reinforcing factors
and indirect communication channels?
Community-level theories
Policy based theories
Individual-level theories
Interpersonal-level theories - ✔✔Interpersonal-level theories
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