Exam Study Guide – Practice
Questions with Answers.
GRADED A+. Updated
2026/2027
What is an unrecognized aspect of occupational therapy practitioners'
experience that can lead to
burnout?
a. Poor work conditions
b. Workplace fatigue
c. Pay freeze
d. Death of a client - Ans✔✔-b. Workplace fatigue
In the AOTA Practice Framework, health management and maintenance are
identified within the
domain of occupational therapy as:
a. Occupation-based
b. Instrumental activities of daily living
,c. Activities of daily living
d. Population health - Ans✔✔-b. Instrumental activities of daily living
An occupation-based outcome that can result from the application of
occupational therapy to
community and population health needs, per the AOTA Practice Framework, is:
a. Occupational justice
b. Enhanced instrumental activities of daily living
c. Health disparities
d. Decreased morbidity - Ans✔✔-a. Occupational justice
Social determinants of health are typically defined as:
a. Access to and participation in the full range of meaningful and enriching
occupations afforded to others, including opportunities for social inclusion and
the
resources to participate in occupations to satisfy personal, health, and societal
needs
b. Enriched contextual and activity experiences that enhance performance for
all
people in the natural contexts of life
c. Families, workers, students, community members, or populations sharing the
same
or like concerns
d. Conditions into which a person is born (e.g., social, economic, and physical)
that
,have an impact on health, functioning, and quality of life - Ans✔✔-d.
Conditions into which a person is born (e.g., social, economic, and physical)
that
have an impact on health, functioning, and quality of life
An example of a social determinant of health is:
a. Ethnicity
b. Diabetes
c. Occupations
d. Neighborhood and built environment - Ans✔✔-d. Neighborhood and built
environment
Healthy People 2020 provides the following framework for implementation of
its population health
goals:
a. Attain healthy, thriving lives and well-being, free of preventable disease,
disability, injury, and premature death
b. Mobilize, assess, plan, implement, and track
c. Eliminate health disparities, achieve health equity, and attain health literacy
to
improve the health and well-being of all
d. Promote healthy development, healthy behaviors, and well-being across all
life
stages - Ans✔✔-b. Mobilize, assess, plan, implement, and track
Public health is described as the critical functions of state and local health
departments, such as
, preventing epidemics, containing environmental hazards, and encouraging
healthy behaviors. An
example of public health is:
a. Provision of vaccinations
b. Providing blankets to persons who are homeless
c. Mobilize, assess, plan, implement, and track
d. Intensive care units - Ans✔✔-a. Provision of vaccinations
A risk factor that contributes to cardiovascular disease is:
a. Vaccinations
b. Diabetes
c. Intensive exercise
d. Occupational deprivation - Ans✔✔-b. Diabetes
Occupational therapy provided in a post-acute setting after a fall is typically
what level of
prevention?
a. Primary prevention
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. Post-prevention - Ans✔✔-c. Tertiary prevention
The term preventive occupation refers to the application of occupational
science and therapy in the
prevention of disease and disability and the promotion of health and well-
being of individuals and