Question 1

Kaiser's Four Habits model includes the requirement to______________.

Accepted Answer

Kaiser's Four Habits model includes eliciting the patient's perspective as one of the habits. The other options are not mentioned as habits in the model.

Question 2

Liam needed to have surgery to reconstruct the airways of his nose, but his face is now paralyzed after the surgeon hit a nerve. This is an example of ___________.

Accepted Answer

This is an adverse event, which is an unintended harm caused by a medical intervention. In this case, the harm was caused by a surgical error resulting in facial paralysis.

Question 3

The single largest cause of medical error is ___________and communication breakdown occurs.

Accepted Answer

When patients are passed off between medical staff members, miscommunication and errors can occur. This is because different staff members may have different information or may not communicate effectively with each other. This can lead to errors in medication administration, diagnosis, and treatment. Studies have shown that communication breakdown between healthcare providers is the largest cause of medical errors.

Question 4

One idea for making provider-client interactions more effective is to boost health care providers' _______, their ability to acknowledge, absorb, interpret, and act on the stories and plights told to them by their clients.

Accepted Answer

Narrative competence refers to the ability of a healthcare provider to listen to and comprehend the stories and experiences of their clients, interpret them accurately, and respond appropriately. By enhancing and utilizing this skill, healthcare providers can build more effective relationships with their clients and deliver more personalized and effective care.

Question 5

Whenever Marcie feels the slightest pain she searches the Internet for hours trying to identify the disease that is plaguing her. She once mistook a headache for a brain tumor because Dr. Google told her so. Marcie is a __________.

Accepted Answer

Marcie's behavior aligns with that of a cyberchondriac, which is someone who compulsively searches the Internet for information on medical conditions and assumes the worst possible diagnosis for their symptoms. The other answer choices are not accurate descriptions of Marcie's behavior.

Question 6

The Centers for Disease Control created the ___________________ program in order to ensure the accuracy of health information used in television programs and films and to help with their health-related plotlines.

Accepted Answer

The correct program created by the CDC to ensure the accuracy of health information used in television programs and films is called Hollywood, Health & Society.

Question 7

Hannah watches a TV show called Model Material in which young women who wear a size 2 and under are critiqued and then compete to be the next top model in the country. This show can be considered a _________

Accepted Answer

The TV show Model Material portrays and promotes thinness as a desirable and necessary trait for successful modeling careers, which can have harmful effects on viewers' body image and perpetuate disordered eating behaviors. Therefore, this program can be considered a thinness depicting and promoting program.

Question 8

____________ die sooner and experience higher rates of disease and injury than people living in any other high-income country.

Accepted Answer

Americans have been found to have shorter life expectancies and higher rates of disease and injury when compared to people living in any other high-income country.

Question 9

The United States has a higher rate of _____________, deaths that could potentially have been prevented by timely access to appropriate health care, than many other wealthy nations like France, Germany, and Great Britain.

Accepted Answer

Amenable mortality refers to deaths that could have been prevented with appropriate health care interventions. The United States has a higher amenable mortality rate compared to many other wealthy nations.

Question 10

The process of using engaging media stories to immerse viewers into their plots, have them perceived as realistic, and encourage those viewers to identify with characters to produce beneficial health attitudes and behaviors is ___________ theory.

Accepted Answer

The process of using engaging media stories to immerse viewers into their plots, have them perceived as realistic, and encourage those viewers to identify with characters to produce beneficial health attitudes and behaviors is known as narrative persuasion theory. Social cognitive theory focuses on how people learn through observation and modeling, cultivation theory suggests that the media shapes our perceptions of reality, elaboration likelihood theory explains how people process and respond to persuasive messages, and normative theory explains how social norms and expectations influence behavior. However, only narrative persuasion theory specifically addresses the use of storytelling in media to promote health attitudes and behaviors.

Question 11

Professionals at all levels of the health care system are working to grant patients greater involvement in and control over their health and well-being services and practices, hoping to boost ___________.

Accepted Answer

The statement is referring to the concept of patient activation, which is defined as a patient's knowledge, skill, and confidence in managing their own health and healthcare. By granting patients greater involvement and control, healthcare professionals hope to increase patient activation and ultimately improve health outcomes. Choices A and B are not specific enough to the concept being discussed, and choice C is unrelated. Choice E is a possible goal but is not directly addressed in this statement.

Question 12

A _________ spells out specific treatment instructions for end-of-life care and becomes a formal part of a patient's medical record.

Accepted Answer

The correct term for the document described is Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), which outlines specific medical interventions and instructions for end-of-life care. The other options are not commonly used terms for such a document.

Question 13

The definition of family in contemporary health care practice is __________.

Accepted Answer

In contemporary healthcare practice, the definition of family is based on the patient's decision and can include anyone they consider to be family, regardless of biological or marital status. This approach acknowledges the diversity of modern family structures and the importance of social support in healthcare outcomes. Therefore, whomever the patient wants to include as family is the most suitable option among the given choices.

Question 14

The two major factors contributing to poor hospital staff communication are the deference nurses and other staff typically pay to surgeons and _____________

Accepted Answer

The sentence states that nurses and other staff defer to surgeons, indicating a hierarchy within the hospital that can contribute to poor communication. The other choices are either unrelated to the given statement or not sufficiently supported by the context.

Question 15

Wind turbine syndrome is an example of a ___________, an imagined disease that spreads because people talk about it.

Accepted Answer

Communicated disease refers to a condition that spreads among people through communication rather than through any biological or environmental agent. Wind turbine syndrome is considered a communicated disease because its symptoms are believed to spread by people hearing about them from others, rather than being caused directly by wind turbines themselves.

Question 16

Health communication campaigns such as the anti-smoking I Learned It by Watching You! and Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk generally have one of two goals, to raise awareness of important health issues and to _______________.

Accepted Answer

Health communication campaigns aim to change individuals' health behaviors and attitudes by providing information, education, and persuasive messages. This can result in improved health outcomes and reduced healthcare costs in the long term.

Question 17

The premise of the ________is that there are features of entertainment media that facilitate involvement with characters that can lead to story-consistent attitudes and behaviors by overcoming various forms of resistance to health advice.

Accepted Answer

The premise described in the question matches the entertainment overcoming resistance model, which suggests that entertainment media can help viewers overcome resistance to health advice by facilitating involvement with characters and story-consistent attitudes and behaviors. The other choices (Four Habits theory, social cognitive theory, elaboration likelihood model, you see/you do theory) do not specifically address this premise.

Question 18

The Health Belief Model argues that there are six main perceptions influencing people's decisions about whether to take action to prevent, screen for, and control illness. Among them is their perception of __________.

Accepted Answer

The Health Belief Model identifies six main perceptions, including perceived susceptibility to a condition, perceived severity of the condition, perceived benefits of taking action to prevent/treat the condition, perceived barriers to taking action, perceived self-efficacy (belief in one's ability to take action), and cues to action (external prompts to take action). While factors such as cost, social support and doctor's support may also influence decisions, they are not among the core perceptions in the Health Belief Model.

Question 19

You have seen all the posters around campus telling you to eat healthier. You know you should and you know that there is a tendency toward high blood pressure in your family, so a good diet is a smart choice. But you just can't adopt the kind of diet this campaign suggests because it's tough to eat well on a student's lowly income. The Health Belief Model would argue that you failed to adopt the healthy behavior because of your perception of ____________.

Accepted Answer

The Health Belief Model suggests that behavior change is influenced by one's perception of the barriers to action. In this scenario, the individual perceives the financial barriers to adopting a healthier diet as too high and therefore chooses not to adopt the healthy behavior.

Question 20

You have seen all the posters around campus telling you to eat healthier but they just don't move you to action. Yes, you are aware that there is a tendency toward high blood pressure in your family, but you are in good health and get plenty of exercise so you'll be OK. The Health Belief Model would argue that you failed to adopt the healthy behavior because of your perception of ____________.

Accepted Answer

The Health Belief Model states that a person's perceived susceptibility to an illness is one of the key factors influencing their likelihood of adopting healthy behaviors. In this scenario, the person's perception that they are not susceptible to high blood pressure because they are in good health and exercise regularly is preventing them from adopting healthier eating habits.

Quiz 14: Health Communication