MPH Comprehensive Exam Review 2023 Questions and
Answers Complete
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?
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 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
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
Which process governing observational learning is dependent upon
communication skills?
Production
Retention
Motivation
Attention
Production
Which is the most powerful single predictor of behavior across studies from the
Health Belief Model?
Perceived benefits
Perceived susceptibility
, Perceived severity
Perceived barriers
Perceived barriers
The health belief model of behavior change assumes that humans act in rational
ways and are more likely to change behavior when confronted with a threat. If you
are assigned to a breast cancer prevention program and wish to use this model in
promoting breast self-examination among Asian-American women, which of the
following factors will you consider in your implementation of this model?
- The perceived severity of breast cancer
-The actual effectiveness of taking action to prevent or minimize breast cancer as
compared to barriers to and costs of taking such an action
- The attitudes of Asian-American women toward breast cancer
- All of the above
- None of the above
All the Above
Perceived invincibility among youth falls under which Health Belief Model
construct?
Perceived susceptibility
Perceived severity
Perceived barriers
Perceived benefits
Perceived susceptibility
Studies on psychological and social factors that influence health have
consistently implicated stress and social support in the outcome of disease and
mortality. Which of the following statements support the role played by stressing
disease prognosis and mortality?
- Widows and widowers tend to have an unusually low risk of dying soon after the
death of their spouse
- People who lose their jobs are 50% to 70% less likely to present with angina
symptoms, compared to their employed counterparts of the same age and similar
socio-demographics
- Mortality rates of survivors are 40% to 50% higher during the six months after
the death of a spouse relative to the mortality of married people of the same age
- a and c only
- All of the above
Mortality rates of survivors are 40% to 50% higher during the six months after the death
of a spouse relative to the mortality of married people of the same age
Research efforts to elucidate the mechanisms by which social and psychological
factors influence health are essential to health promotions and disease
prevention. Which of the following is correct regarding behavioral intervention?
Interventions studies should span the breadth of all phases of clinical trials, form
feasibility studies to randomized double-blinded studies
Answers Complete
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?
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 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
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
Which process governing observational learning is dependent upon
communication skills?
Production
Retention
Motivation
Attention
Production
Which is the most powerful single predictor of behavior across studies from the
Health Belief Model?
Perceived benefits
Perceived susceptibility
, Perceived severity
Perceived barriers
Perceived barriers
The health belief model of behavior change assumes that humans act in rational
ways and are more likely to change behavior when confronted with a threat. If you
are assigned to a breast cancer prevention program and wish to use this model in
promoting breast self-examination among Asian-American women, which of the
following factors will you consider in your implementation of this model?
- The perceived severity of breast cancer
-The actual effectiveness of taking action to prevent or minimize breast cancer as
compared to barriers to and costs of taking such an action
- The attitudes of Asian-American women toward breast cancer
- All of the above
- None of the above
All the Above
Perceived invincibility among youth falls under which Health Belief Model
construct?
Perceived susceptibility
Perceived severity
Perceived barriers
Perceived benefits
Perceived susceptibility
Studies on psychological and social factors that influence health have
consistently implicated stress and social support in the outcome of disease and
mortality. Which of the following statements support the role played by stressing
disease prognosis and mortality?
- Widows and widowers tend to have an unusually low risk of dying soon after the
death of their spouse
- People who lose their jobs are 50% to 70% less likely to present with angina
symptoms, compared to their employed counterparts of the same age and similar
socio-demographics
- Mortality rates of survivors are 40% to 50% higher during the six months after
the death of a spouse relative to the mortality of married people of the same age
- a and c only
- All of the above
Mortality rates of survivors are 40% to 50% higher during the six months after the death
of a spouse relative to the mortality of married people of the same age
Research efforts to elucidate the mechanisms by which social and psychological
factors influence health are essential to health promotions and disease
prevention. Which of the following is correct regarding behavioral intervention?
Interventions studies should span the breadth of all phases of clinical trials, form
feasibility studies to randomized double-blinded studies
