NUTR 430 Community Needs Assessment
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Describe the concept of community needs assessment - CORRECT ANSWER - Evaluates
health and nutrition status of community- collect data
Identify community resources and community's capacity to promote public's health
Consider community's wants
Purpose of conducting community needs assessment. - CORRECT ANSWER - Identify
problem so can come up with relevant solutions
Identify circumstances that would prompt/trigger a community needs assessment. - CORRECT
ANSWER - Community understanding
Generate new data
Validate research
Obtain funding
Describe the process (steps) involved in conducting a community needs assessment. -
CORRECT ANSWER - Define the purpose of the assessment as it relates to a nutrition
problem - is the purpose to identify a nutrition problem? Confirm nutrition problem? Identify
reasons for the problem? Determine existing resources in community that can meet nutrition
needs? Characterize problem in subgroup?
What are the parameters of the assessment- define the community and the target population
Collect data about the community - depends on goals and objectives
Differentiate between a goal and an objective for community assessment. - CORRECT
ANSWER - Goal- broad statements of what you want the community needs assessment to
accomplish
, Objective- Steps/ activities needed to achieve the goal
Write a goal and/or objective for community assessment for given scenario. - CORRECT
ANSWER - Goals of assessment- determine how much water TAMU students are consuming
Objective- plan a survey to determine how much water is consumed by random volunteers
Describe sources of data commonly used for community needs assessment.
◦ - CORRECT ANSWER - Name specific types of data (Tables 2-2, 2-3, 2-4, 2-5). Existing
data uses existing statistical data
Screening
Health risk appraisals/ assessment
Direct nutrition assessment
Surveys- qualitative or quantitative
Interview key informants
Focus groups
Texas Health Facts
Data from local or state health agencies
Identify advantages and disadvantages of using existing data for needs assessment. - CORRECT
ANSWER - Advantages: saves time
More info, often very detailed
May be more representative of a larger population
Saves money
We can monitor trends- if it has been collected in an ongoing matter
Disadvantages: could maybe not be representative of our community
Credibility, bias
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Describe the concept of community needs assessment - CORRECT ANSWER - Evaluates
health and nutrition status of community- collect data
Identify community resources and community's capacity to promote public's health
Consider community's wants
Purpose of conducting community needs assessment. - CORRECT ANSWER - Identify
problem so can come up with relevant solutions
Identify circumstances that would prompt/trigger a community needs assessment. - CORRECT
ANSWER - Community understanding
Generate new data
Validate research
Obtain funding
Describe the process (steps) involved in conducting a community needs assessment. -
CORRECT ANSWER - Define the purpose of the assessment as it relates to a nutrition
problem - is the purpose to identify a nutrition problem? Confirm nutrition problem? Identify
reasons for the problem? Determine existing resources in community that can meet nutrition
needs? Characterize problem in subgroup?
What are the parameters of the assessment- define the community and the target population
Collect data about the community - depends on goals and objectives
Differentiate between a goal and an objective for community assessment. - CORRECT
ANSWER - Goal- broad statements of what you want the community needs assessment to
accomplish
, Objective- Steps/ activities needed to achieve the goal
Write a goal and/or objective for community assessment for given scenario. - CORRECT
ANSWER - Goals of assessment- determine how much water TAMU students are consuming
Objective- plan a survey to determine how much water is consumed by random volunteers
Describe sources of data commonly used for community needs assessment.
◦ - CORRECT ANSWER - Name specific types of data (Tables 2-2, 2-3, 2-4, 2-5). Existing
data uses existing statistical data
Screening
Health risk appraisals/ assessment
Direct nutrition assessment
Surveys- qualitative or quantitative
Interview key informants
Focus groups
Texas Health Facts
Data from local or state health agencies
Identify advantages and disadvantages of using existing data for needs assessment. - CORRECT
ANSWER - Advantages: saves time
More info, often very detailed
May be more representative of a larger population
Saves money
We can monitor trends- if it has been collected in an ongoing matter
Disadvantages: could maybe not be representative of our community
Credibility, bias
