NUTR 430 Community Needs
Assessment Exam 2025 Questions and
Answers
Describe the concept of community needs assessment - 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. - ANSWER-Identify
problem so can come up with relevant solutions
Identify circumstances that would prompt/trigger a community needs assessment.
- ANSWER-Community understanding
Generate new data
Validate research
Obtain funding
Describe the process (steps) involved in conducting a community needs
assessment. - ANSWER-Define the purpose of the assessment as it relates to a
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, 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. -
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. -
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
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Assessment Exam 2025 Questions and
Answers
Describe the concept of community needs assessment - 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. - ANSWER-Identify
problem so can come up with relevant solutions
Identify circumstances that would prompt/trigger a community needs assessment.
- ANSWER-Community understanding
Generate new data
Validate research
Obtain funding
Describe the process (steps) involved in conducting a community needs
assessment. - ANSWER-Define the purpose of the assessment as it relates to a
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, 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. -
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. -
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
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