CHES Practice Exam – Certified Health Education Specialist Study Guide, Questions
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A health education specialist is working with a local community organization to segment the
population for implementing a new health communication campaign to address rising rates of
sexually transmitted infections in the community. What characteristics will the project lead
focus on to effective segment the population.
a. location of health care resources
b. program components needed to effectively implement the campaign
c behavioral, demographic, and cultural characteristics of the population
d. Duration/timeframe for implementing communication activities - ✔✔c
A health education specialist collects data in which the answers were either "yes" or "no." These
data are what type?
a. nominal
b. ordinal
c. interval
d. ratio - ✔✔a. nominal
When engaging priority populations in program planning, participants are defined as:
a. individuals who will be funding the program
b. print and broadcast media who will be publicizing the program
c. community members who will receive the program intervention
d. researchers who will be evaluating the success of the program - ✔✔c
A Bullying Prevention community-wide intervention is being planned, with parents, of the
priority population targeted. The planning team is seeking specific information form local
parents with children in grades, K-12 to understand their opinions on approaches to strengthen
,school climate through parent teacher association, volunteering opportunities, and school
improvement events. The health education specialist should refer these local parent to what
type of data collection method?
a. Literature review
b. Focus Group
c. Survey
d. Nominal group process - ✔✔b. focus group
A health education specialist is assessing which valid resource to use to obtain chronic disease-
related morbidity and mortality trends in a specific local community. What would be the best
resource to use to access that information?
a. US Bureau of Census Data
b. county and State health-related agencies data
c. Literature review
d. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC data - ✔✔b. county and state health related
agencies
A health education specialist is conducting research. Which of the following is not focused on
ethics principles for conducting data collection?
a. Beneficence
b. Justice
c. respect for persons
d. Validity - ✔✔d. validity
Which of the following is not an adult learning principle?
a. actively involve adults in helping to set the curriculum, choosing training methods, or
identifying training goals
b. ask about adults' past experience and knowledge, and use their experiences of knowledge to
avoid providing redundant content during trainings
,c. use a prescribed set of methods, perspectives, and content to standardize instruction, and
avoid confusion
d. conduct assessments to identify ways to engage adults, and learn about their goals or
objectives for the training - ✔✔c. use a prescribed set of methods.....
The health education specialist is three-quarters of the way through an agency's annual funding.
It is realize there will not be sufficient funding to last through the rest of the year. The
realization is an issue of program:
a. sustainability
b. longevity
c. evaluation
d. planning - ✔✔a. sustainability
The coalition is having a difficult tie persuading a decision-maker to support an issue. The
decision -maker, however, can be swayed by level of public support for the issue. The most
important data collection method to use next, therefore would be:
a. political capital charting
b. communications capacity analysis
c. community leader surveys
d. voting record examination - ✔✔c. community leader surveys
Kirkpatrick's four -level training evaluation method comprises of levels of:
A.input, manipulation, output, and outcomes
B. Question, view, monitor, and evaluate
C. Reason, learn, monitor, and assesss
D. Reaction, learning Behavior and results - ✔✔D. Reaction, learning behavior, and results
An example of a primary prevention study is:
, a. review of 5 years of demographic data regarding rates of influenza
b. assessing rates of influenza in two different age groups
c.assessing rates ofinfluenza prior to implementation of a campaign to increase immunizations.
d. assessing decreased rates of influenza after a campaign to increase immunizations - ✔✔d.
assessing decreased rates of influenza after a campaign to increase immunitzations
The primary focus of the Elaboration Likelihood Model of communication is:
a. persuasion
b. avoidance of tension
c. compromise
d. dominance - ✔✔a. persuasion
The maximum number o words per slide when using projection software, such as PowerPoint,
should be:
a. 25
b. 50
c. 75
d.100 - ✔✔b. 50
A HES who is working predominately Muslim population must set up a series of appointments
with individuals. The appointments are specifically scheduled between prayer times so that they
do not interfere with the individuals; religious practice. This is an example of:
a. cultural care preservation
b. cultural care accomodation
c. cultural care restructuring
d.cultural care capitulation - ✔✔a. cultural care preservation
& Exam Prep
A health education specialist is working with a local community organization to segment the
population for implementing a new health communication campaign to address rising rates of
sexually transmitted infections in the community. What characteristics will the project lead
focus on to effective segment the population.
a. location of health care resources
b. program components needed to effectively implement the campaign
c behavioral, demographic, and cultural characteristics of the population
d. Duration/timeframe for implementing communication activities - ✔✔c
A health education specialist collects data in which the answers were either "yes" or "no." These
data are what type?
a. nominal
b. ordinal
c. interval
d. ratio - ✔✔a. nominal
When engaging priority populations in program planning, participants are defined as:
a. individuals who will be funding the program
b. print and broadcast media who will be publicizing the program
c. community members who will receive the program intervention
d. researchers who will be evaluating the success of the program - ✔✔c
A Bullying Prevention community-wide intervention is being planned, with parents, of the
priority population targeted. The planning team is seeking specific information form local
parents with children in grades, K-12 to understand their opinions on approaches to strengthen
,school climate through parent teacher association, volunteering opportunities, and school
improvement events. The health education specialist should refer these local parent to what
type of data collection method?
a. Literature review
b. Focus Group
c. Survey
d. Nominal group process - ✔✔b. focus group
A health education specialist is assessing which valid resource to use to obtain chronic disease-
related morbidity and mortality trends in a specific local community. What would be the best
resource to use to access that information?
a. US Bureau of Census Data
b. county and State health-related agencies data
c. Literature review
d. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC data - ✔✔b. county and state health related
agencies
A health education specialist is conducting research. Which of the following is not focused on
ethics principles for conducting data collection?
a. Beneficence
b. Justice
c. respect for persons
d. Validity - ✔✔d. validity
Which of the following is not an adult learning principle?
a. actively involve adults in helping to set the curriculum, choosing training methods, or
identifying training goals
b. ask about adults' past experience and knowledge, and use their experiences of knowledge to
avoid providing redundant content during trainings
,c. use a prescribed set of methods, perspectives, and content to standardize instruction, and
avoid confusion
d. conduct assessments to identify ways to engage adults, and learn about their goals or
objectives for the training - ✔✔c. use a prescribed set of methods.....
The health education specialist is three-quarters of the way through an agency's annual funding.
It is realize there will not be sufficient funding to last through the rest of the year. The
realization is an issue of program:
a. sustainability
b. longevity
c. evaluation
d. planning - ✔✔a. sustainability
The coalition is having a difficult tie persuading a decision-maker to support an issue. The
decision -maker, however, can be swayed by level of public support for the issue. The most
important data collection method to use next, therefore would be:
a. political capital charting
b. communications capacity analysis
c. community leader surveys
d. voting record examination - ✔✔c. community leader surveys
Kirkpatrick's four -level training evaluation method comprises of levels of:
A.input, manipulation, output, and outcomes
B. Question, view, monitor, and evaluate
C. Reason, learn, monitor, and assesss
D. Reaction, learning Behavior and results - ✔✔D. Reaction, learning behavior, and results
An example of a primary prevention study is:
, a. review of 5 years of demographic data regarding rates of influenza
b. assessing rates of influenza in two different age groups
c.assessing rates ofinfluenza prior to implementation of a campaign to increase immunizations.
d. assessing decreased rates of influenza after a campaign to increase immunizations - ✔✔d.
assessing decreased rates of influenza after a campaign to increase immunitzations
The primary focus of the Elaboration Likelihood Model of communication is:
a. persuasion
b. avoidance of tension
c. compromise
d. dominance - ✔✔a. persuasion
The maximum number o words per slide when using projection software, such as PowerPoint,
should be:
a. 25
b. 50
c. 75
d.100 - ✔✔b. 50
A HES who is working predominately Muslim population must set up a series of appointments
with individuals. The appointments are specifically scheduled between prayer times so that they
do not interfere with the individuals; religious practice. This is an example of:
a. cultural care preservation
b. cultural care accomodation
c. cultural care restructuring
d.cultural care capitulation - ✔✔a. cultural care preservation
