Deck 8: Dental Health Education and Promotion

Question 1

The changes an individual must make in order to attain health-which include precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, maintenance, and action-are the foundation of which theory?

A) Transtheoretical model
B) Healthy belief model
C) Five-dimensional model
D) Quality-of-life model
E) None of the above

Answer 1

Transtheoretical model

Question 2

The creation of a dental hygiene operatory section in the city's children's museum by the local dental hygiene association would be which type of activity?

A) Health promotion
B) Health education
C) Health instruction
D) Health assessment
E) None of the above

Answer 2

Health promotion

Question 3

What occurs when an individual gains control over his/her environment?

A) Social molding
B) Imitation
C) Modeling
D) Competence
E) None of above

Answer 3

Competence

Question 4

The health belief model suggests that an individual must display a readiness to take action to avoid a disease and then must believe that he/she is ________.

A) Placing value on the disease
B) Changing the behavior
C) Susceptible or vulnerable to the disease/condition
D) Acting in a preventive manner
E) None of the above

Question 5

Informing and motivating people to adopt healthy behaviors is termed ________.

A) Health promotion
B) Health assessment
C) Health instruction
D) Health education
E) None of the above

Question 6

It is necessary to motivate a population in order to effectively promote value adoption and behavior change.

Question 7

The social-cognitive theory postulates that an individual needs to be made aware of a health issue before he/she can act on it.

Question 8

The teaching of health behaviors that bring an individual to a state of health awareness is termed health ________.

A) Instruction
B) Assessment
C) Education
D) Promotion
E) None of the above

Question 9

A person's behavior intent is a combination of knowledge, values, and attitudes, which is emphasized in which theory?

A) Self-efficacy
B) Maslow's hierarchy
C) Social-cognitive
D) Reasoned action
E) None of the above

Question 10

The theory of reasoned action focuses on the belief that people make rational decisions based on intent.

Question 11

The five-dimensional health model includes all of the following except ________.

A) Emotional
B) Mental
C) Psychological
D) Spiritual
E) Physical

Question 12

The will of an individual to act is a ________.

A) Behavior habit
B) Promotion
C) Behavior change
D) Motivation
E) None of the above

Question 13

Which of the following theories reinforces the belief that social pressure is significant in influencing behavior?

A) Transtheoretical
B) Social-cognitive
C) Maslow's hierarchy
D) Theory of reasoned action
E) None of the above

Question 14

What is a scale that pinpoints a patient's physical condition on a continuum from death through varying degrees of illness to completely healthy functioning?

A) Wellness scale
B) Healthy living measurement
C) Quality scale
D) Assessment scale
E) None of the above

Question 15

The primary goal of dental health education is the prevention of disease utilizing appropriate dental health interventions.

Question 16

Which factor does NOT influence motivation?

A) Attitude
B) Stimulation
C) Competence
D) Need
E) Values

Question 17

When using the five-dimensional health model, a patient's trust in a dental hygienist would be a positive input to which dimension?

A) Mental
B) Physical
C) Psychological
D) Spiritual
E) Emotional

Question 18

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is arranged in ________.

A) Lower to higher level needs
B) Alphabetical order
C) Multidimensional fields
D) Psychological steps
E) None of the above

Question 19

The last step in the learning ladder is the involvement step.

Question 20

For an individual with poor oral care, what must be changed in order for him or her to adopt a healthy behavior such as daily brushing?

A) Life force
B) Instinct
C) Behavior
D) Value
E) None of the above

Question 21

Choose the item that best matches each item of the following:
This theory is based on the concepts of rewards and punishments.

A)Self-determination theory
B)Modeling behavior
C)Empowerment
D)Classical conditioning
E)Operant conditioning

Question 22

Choose the item that best matches each item of the following:
This theory suggests that individuals become conditioned to specific stimuli to act in a specific way.

A)Self-determination theory
B)Modeling behavior
C)Empowerment
D)Classical conditioning
E)Operant conditioning

Question 23

Choose the item that best matches each item of the following:
This theory is a macrotheory of human motivation concerned with the functioning of personality within social contexts.

A)Self-determination theory
B)Modeling behavior
C)Empowerment
D)Classical conditioning
E)Operant conditioning

Question 24

Choose the item that best matches each item of the following:
This theory suggests that learning can be facilitated through imitation.

A)Self-determination theory
B)Modeling behavior
C)Empowerment
D)Classical conditioning
E)Operant conditioning

Question 25

Choose the item that best matches each item of the following:
This model emphasizes providers and patients working together toward treatment.

A)Self-determination theory
B)Modeling behavior
C)Empowerment
D)Classical conditioning
E)Operant conditioning