Deck 28: Patient Education

Question 1

The overall objective of patient education is to develop a:

A) reasonable plan for patient education.
B) durable cognitive improvement that results in a positive change in an individual's or group's health behavior.
C) strong health care contract.
D) make patient education unique when compared with other types of teaching.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

When a clinician uses the learning needs assessment survey,it allows for:

A) mistakes to be easily caught.
B) facilitation of optimal learning in a given patient or group.
C) less of a chance for the patient to reinjure themselves.
D) a quicker rehabilitation time.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The learning needs assessment encompasses the following five major areas:

A) perceptual, motor, affective, cognitive, and environmental.
B) seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, and tasting.
C) reading, testing, group discussion, role playing, and individual instruction.
D) lecture, video, audiotape, computer programs, and directed activities.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The graduate physical therapist is required to be able to:

A) determine the effectiveness of patient education.
B) formulate and prioritize goals.
C) effectively educate others using culturally appropriate teaching methods that are commensurate with the needs of the learner.
D) determine what concepts are pertinent to patient education.

Question 5

The behavior-modification approach:

A) can help a patient to attain a certain level of performance.
B) consists of techniques that manipulate environmental rewards and punishments in relationship to a specified behavior.
C) can help to affect a durable cognitive improvement.
D) can help to enhance patient-clinician rapport.

Question 6

The social-cognitive theory states that:

A) the overall objective of patient education is to affect a durable cognitive improvement.
B) the most important aspect of planning a patient's education is to first assess the learner.
C) health care contracts can be used to implement the social-cognitive theory.
D) human behavior can be explained using incentives, outcome expectations, and efficacy expectations as key regulators.

Question 7

_______ can be useful in implementing the behavior approach.

A) Patient education objectives
B) Learning needs assessments
C) Health care contacts
D) Cardiopulmonary patient education

Question 8

As a physical therapist sets intervention goals for a patient,he or she should include:

A) the patient's physical limitations.
B) the patient's age and gender.
C) the patient's educational goals.
D) the patient's highest degree in education.

Question 9

The specific content of patient education materials and programs should be determined by:

A) the individual or the group being taught.
B) how quickly the patient can catch on to the education materials.
C) the age of the patient.
D) how long the treatment will continue.

Question 10

Some objectives of patient education are:

A) enhanced patient-clinician rapport.
B) decreased health care costs.
C) increased self-efficacy.
D) all of the above.

Question 11

After gathering information with the learning needs assessment survey,the next important step is to:

A) turn in the documentation.
B) ask the patient his or her feelings on the survey.
C) directly write up intervention goals.
D) interpret the findings.

Question 12

Physical therapists believe that:

A) patient-clinician rapport is the most important education objective.
B) meditation should always be included in patient education.
C) patient education is an important part of patient care.
D) relaxation and emotional awareness should be a main focus in patient education.

Question 13

Determining the effectiveness of patient education efforts involves evaluating not only what the patient learned but also:

A) how smart the patient is.
B) how the teacher taught.
C) the age of the patient being treated.
D) how well the treatment was documented.

Question 14

Twentieth century behavioral scientists developed a variety of:

A) learning theories and models that try to explain the complexities of human behavior.
B) health care contracts to implement patient education objectives.
C) learning needs assessments.
D) self-efficacy techniques in order to enhance patient education.

Question 15

Prioritizing the patient's goals along with other intervention goals enhances the therapist's:

A) pay.
B) job security.
C) patient load.
D) efficiency.

Question 16

The most important aspect of planning for patient education is:

A) assessing the physical therapist.
B) assessing the clinic where the patient will be treated.
C) assessing the behavior-modification approach.
D) assessing the learner.

Question 17

The main step to understanding others is:

A) getting to know one another.
B) telling them your troubles and see how they respond.
C) helping them in a crisis.
D) an awareness of one's self.

Question 18

Self-efficacy is:

A) believing in one's ability to achieve a certain level of performance.
B) one way to help in implementing the behavior-modification approach.
C) a way to make a positive change in an individual's or group's health behaviors.
D) the most important aspect of planning for patient education.

Question 19

Physical therapists are responsible for:

A) posting their credentials.
B) turning in their paperwork in a timely manner.
C) getting to know the patient's family.
D) evaluating and documenting the results of their patients' education activities.

Question 20

The teacher-learner relationship that develops between a physical therapist and a patient is mainly caused by:

A) communication between the two in the context of culture.
B) interpretation of hidden messages.
C) being able to define culture.
D) how open the educational setting is.

Question 21

The primary mode of transmission of culture is:

A) friendship.
B) spirituality.
C) education.
D) language.