Deck 11: Social and Behavioral Sciences in Public Health

Question 1

In the Health Belief Model, an internal or external prompt to make a behavior change, like a reminder to stop smoking from a health care provider, is called a:

A) Perceived susceptibility
B) Perceived threat
C) Cue to action
D) Self-efficacy

Answer 1

Cue to action

Question 2

If you are describing the reciprocity of a social network, you are talking about how similar all the members of a social network are to one another.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Social support has been shown to be related to health: it can help reduce stress and may even improve survival from illness.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

When designing an intervention using the social-ecological model, it is best to focus all one's efforts on a single level of the model, like individual behavior, in order to increase the likelihood of success and improved health.

Question 5

If a public health professional is signing an individual up for a smoking cessation class, what stage of the stages of change/ Transtheoretical model is that individual in?

A) Precontemplation
B) Contemplation
C) Preparation
D) Maintenance

Question 6

Community assets are the strengths and resources - like parks, schools, leaders, and residents - of a group or community.

Question 7

According to the stages of change or Transtheoretical model, behavior change follows a one-directional or linear path from precontemplation through maintenance.

Question 8

In order for a behavioral theory to be validated it must be tested and shown to hold true in a variety of populations and under different circumstances.

Question 9

If a public health intervention is designed to change the norms, attitudes, or power structures - in other words, the social environment - within an organization or other group, the intervention would be targeting which level of the social-ecological model?

A) Individual
B) Interpersonal/ Relationship
C) Community
D) Societal

Question 10

If you lost a job and a friend offered to hire you at her restaurant, what type of social support would she be providing?

A) Emotional
B) Instrumental
C) Informational
D) Appraisal

Question 11

A public health intervention is a program or initiative designed to change behavior or improve health status.

Question 12

In which public health discipline are the primary aims to understand, predict, and influence the health behaviors of individuals and populations?

A) Epidemiology
B) Social and behavioral sciences
C) Health management and policy
D) Environmental health

Question 13

Which of the following is the process of helping a community to develop common goals, mobilize resources, and achieve the established goals?

A) Community organizing
B) Critical consciousness
C) Empowerment
D) Community-based participatory research

Question 14

If a health intervention involves a health communications campaign - using newspaper, radio, and television to deliver a health promotion message - what level of the social- ecological model is this campaign targeting?

A) Individual
B) Interpersonal/ Relationship
C) Community
D) Societal

Question 15

If you draw a series of circles and put your name and the names of all the people you know inside those circles then draw lines to connect all the people who know one another on the page, you would have a diagram of your:

A) Social network
B) Vicarious experience
C) Social-ecological model
D) Self-efficacy

Question 16

Which of the following behavioral theories focuses on the interpersonal or relationship level of the social-ecological model?

A) Health Belief Model
B) Theory of Planned Behavior
C) Theory of Reasoned Action
D) Social Cognitive Theory

Question 17

In community-based participatory research, researchers act as experts and educate a community on its problems and possible solutions, then allow the community to choose the solution it likes best.

Question 18

An intervention that involves banning the purchase of unhealthy products or enforcing existing laws limiting access to those products is targeting the societal level of the social- ecological model.

Question 19

According to the Health Belief Model, the perceived threat of a disease is a combination of how likely a person feels it is she would get a disease perceived susceptibility) and how seriously a disease would affect her life perceived severity).

Question 20

Which of the following is likely to occur in a community-based participatory research project?

A) All of the problems or negative attributes of a community will be listed by a researcher.
B) A project will be designed and implemented and then the researchers will publish the results in a peer-reviewed academic journal.
C) Community members will educate researchers on their community, including its strengths.
D) A workgroup will be established that includes community members, but the researcher will serve as the chair and will make the final project decisions.