Deck 17: Futures

Question 1

According to Murray and Campbell (2003), health psychology does not need to encompass which aspect of health and healthcare.

A) sociocultural
B) economic
C) political
D) familial

Answer 1

familial

Question 2

According to work conducted by Abraham et al. (2002), what fraction of safer-sex leaflets used two or less of twenty information categories designed to influence behaviour?

A) half
B) A third
C) Two thirds
D) a quarter

Answer 2

Two thirds

Question 3

Which of the following is unlikely to underpin any health psychology intervention?

A) Health Attitude Theory
B) Social Cognition Theory
C) Health Action Process
D) Theory of Planned Behaviour

Answer 3

Health Attitude Theory

Question 4

The key message of the health belief model is that we have to persuade people that

A) they are able to achieve long-term behavioural change.
B) the benefits of health behaviour change outweigh the benefits of not changing.
C) behavioural change will result in a health gain.
D) they will be supported in any attempts at behavioural change.

Question 5

Vicarious learning in the context of health behaviour change involves

A) being motivated by negative information.
B) gaining the confidence to change through observing coping models
C) Learning from our mistakes
D) being given information to change relevant attitudes.

Question 6

A criticism of health psychology made by Schwarz and Carpenter (1999) is that health psychology

A) focuses too much on society level determinants of health
B) focus too much on macro-level determinants of health.
C) does not yet have the technology to change behaviours in large populations.
D) focuses too much on individual level determinants of health

Question 7

Fordyce (1982) did not suggest that pain programmes should

A) ignore pain-related behaviours.
B) reward non-pain related behaviours.
C) administer pain relief on a regular basis.
D) reward pain related behaviours.

Question 8

What is the generic term for ensuring the evidence concerning the effectiveness and applicability of various health psychology interventions in practice?

A) Evidence-based practice
B) National initiative on care for elderly (NICE) validated intervention
C) Empirically validated interventions
D) None of the above

Question 9

Interventions are more likely to be implemented if they are

A) complex
B) cost-effective
C) difficult to implement
D) busy and have a lot going on in them

Question 10

Which of the following factors highlighted by DiMatteo (2004) should be considered when attempting to change young people's behaviour?

A) Building trust between patient and family
B) Consideration of beliefs of the health professional
C) Gaining and encouraging health professional commitment to treatment
D) Building trust between patient and health professional

Question 11

An Australian example of care guidelines are the

A) National clinical practice guide for psychological care
B) Clinical practice guidelines for communicating prognosis and end of life issues with adults
C) National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines
D) Clinical behaviour change guide

Question 12

Which of the following was not identified by DiMatteo (2004) as a means of changing young peoples' behaviour?

A) Tailoring wherever possible the treatment regime to the lifestyles of the family unit
B) Working together to overcome barriers and increase belief in the ability of the young person to make any required behavioural changes
C) Evoking change by emphasising the problems that will occur if change is not achieved
D) Discussing cultural and social norms of treatment adherence

Question 13

Which of the following individual factors may not influence adherence to clinical guidelines?

A) Personal attitudes and beliefs regarding the target behaviour
B) Personal attitudes and beliefs regarding the treatment
C) Personal attitudes and beliefs regarding the condition
D) Personal attitudes and beliefs about how others perceive behaviour

Question 14

Health psychology is a separate clinical discipline in which country?

A) Britain
B) Australia
C) Italy
D) Netherlands

Question 15

The Australian Psychology Society (APS) division of health psychology has not identified the areas of specialism of health psychologists as:

A) Development and provision of programmes that assist in the prevention of illnesses such as heart attacks, stroke, cancer, sexually transmitted diseases, smoking-related-illness and dietary-related problems
B) Designing public health education programs in areas such as exercise and alcohol, cigarette and drug consumption
C) Using psychological treatment for problems that often accompany ill health and injury, such as anxiety, depression, pain, addiction, sleep and eating problems
D) Designing interventions based on how people interact in the workplace

Question 16

Which of the following was not identified by the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination as a factor that may reduce the uptake of clinical guidelines?

A) Weaknesses in communicating the evidence base to practitioners
B) Difficulties in getting the right people to work together to implement change
C) Conflicting sources of information and opinion being available to practitioners
D) Difficulties in learning new procedures

Question 17

What does the Dutch training in health psychology involve?

A) A 2-year health psychology masters course
B) A 3-year health psychology doctoral course
C) The Dutch do not have training courses in health psychology
D) A 4-year applied degree with a year out placement

Question 18

The Australian Psychology Society's division of health psychology identified which of the following as areas of specialisation for health psychologists?

A) Health promotion and clinical health
B) Social health
C) Epidemiology
D) Health promotion and social psychology

Question 19

Any intervention designed to optimise patients' responses to the onset of illness may benefit from a number of elements. They are not:

A) Identification of illness beliefs and attempts to change them if they are either inadequate or incorrect.
B) Teaching coping skills to help people cope more effectively with the stress of living with a serious illness.
C) Behavioural hypothesis testing to disconfirm any inappropriate beliefs an individual may hold.
D) Psychological hypothesis testing to confirm inappropriate beliefs an individual has.

Question 20

_______ are a determinant of behavioural responses to illness

A) Theories
B) Self-efficacy
C) Appraisals
D) Consequences