CHES Exam Jeopardy And Study Guide. Assess Needs, Assets and Capacity for Health Education Plan Health Education Implement Health Education Conduct Evaluation.

CHES Exam JeopardyAnd Study Guide

Assess Needs, Assets and Capacity for

Health Education

Plan Health Education

Implement Health Education

Conduct Evaluation & Research Related to

Health Education

Administer and Manage Health

Education

Serve as a Health Education Resource

Person

Communicate and Advocate for Health

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Data compiled by others, which may or may not have been directly obtained from the individual or population being assessed, is know as:

• A. Secondary• B. Primary• C. Tertiary• D. Internal

The first step in identifying a need for community health education programs should be to:

• A. assess existing individual behaviors• B. establish program objectives• C. conduct a community analysis• D. determine the poverty level

Having a walking trail nearby is an example of which factor related to behavior change:

• A. Predisposing• B. Reinforcing• C. Enabling• D. Fostering

Types of factors that influence a person’s health such as compliance, consumption patterns, coping, preventative actions, and self-care, are known as:

• A. genetic• B. environmental• C. individual• D. behavioral

Which of the following is an example of qualitative data that can be used to compile community needs assessments?

• A. Census reports• B. Focus groups• C. Telephone surveys• D. Mortality Tables

A health education specialist in charge of coordinating his/her agency’s new outreach program wishes to start the strategic planning process. Which is the best first step to take?

• A. Identifying stakeholders• B. Agree on a strategic planning process• C. Clarify organizational mandates• D. Develop the mission statement

Smoking bans are an example of which of the following strategies?

• A. Health-related community service• B. Health-related educational• C. Health policy and enforcement• D. Health communication

In considering the objective, “All youth participating in the after-school program will have a safe ride home at the end of the activity,” the health education specialist recognizes that transportation is a tangible resources. In this scenario he/she is:

• A. writing behavioral objectives. • B. assessing resources. • C. designing a transportation intervention.• D. assessing effectiveness.

Which of the following is an example of a learning objective? • A. Individuals participating in the health education program will be

able to identify three ways to protect their skin from the sun. • B. Individuals in the program will increase their cardiovascular activity

by 25% by the sixth week of the program.• C. 75% of individuals participating in the program will consume five to

nine vegetables per day over the next three months. • D. Program health education specialists will identify 10 new

participants for each program period.

When thinking theoretically about designing theory-based practice, the health education specialist is:

• A. altering program design. • B. evaluating constructs. • C. asking and answering questions. • D. analyzing pilot feedback.

Sending a personally addressed letter advertising a new weight loss program is an example of:

• A. tailoring.• B. targeting.• C. marketing.• D. mass mailing.

Adolescents are often influenced by their peers when making health decisions. According to the Theory of Planned Behavior, which construct describes this phenomena?

• A. Attitudes• B. Perceived Behavioral Control• C. Intention• D. Subjective Norm

A person is making a plan to quit smoking in the next month. This person would be in which stage of the Stages of Change?

• A. Preparation• B. Pre-contemplation• C. Action• D. Contemplation

When a health education specialist exchanges information, alters activities, shares resources and enhances capacity to achieve a common purpose, he or she is:

• A. cooperating.• B. coordinating.• C. networking.• D. collaborating.

To understand the three human subjects protection guidelines of respect for persons, beneficence, and justice, one would look to the:

• A. CHNEO Code of Ethics. • B. Informed consent process. • C. Belmont Report• D. Geneva Convention Treaty.

National surveillance data, hospital discharge data, and insurance claims are all appropriate forms of which type of data:

• A. secondary• B. input• C. descriptive• D. primary

Ongoing monitoring and assessment of program development and implementation is:

• A. impact evaluation.• B. formative evaluation.• C. quantitative evaluation. • D. summative evaluation.

Participants in a health education program are asked to state the number of times they have been arrested. At which level of measurement is this data?

• A. Nominal• B. Ordinal• C. Interval• D. Rato

Checking to see if an instrument is measuring concepts consistently is measuring its:

• A. reliability.• B. utility.• C. outcomes.• D. internal bias.

Which of the following statements indicates a positive relationship between variables X and Y?

• A. As the value of X increases, the value of X decreases. • B. As the value of Y increases, the value of X decreases. • C. As the value of X increases, the value of Y remains unchanged. • D. as the value of X decreases, the value of Y decreases.

The process of managing the constant change that affects almost any organization is best reflected by conducting:

• A. a focus group.• B. an evaluation.• C. an assessment. • D. a strategic planning session.

In terms of organizational culture, a shared vision and sense of belonging are part of which of the following?

• A. Organizational climate• B. Values• C. Cultural norms• D. Organizational support

Which of the following is a situational analysis tool?

• A. PRECEDE• B. SWOT• C. MATCH• D. CDCynergy

Administering strategies, interventions, and programs relates to improvement of factors:

• A. within an organization/environment.• B. within and outside the organization/environment.• C. outside of the organization/environment.• D. relative to the process, impact, and outcome of the

organization/environment.

The health education specialist working in a foreign country is working cross-culturally. One of the most important keys to culturally competent health promotion and understanding different health beliefs/practices is the health education specialist’s understanding of that population’s:

• A. food choices.• B. value system.• C. style of dress.• D. health department organizational structure.

Which of the following is most essential for health education specialists when creating material that addresses participants with low health literacy?

• A. Present a lot of information to assist in learning• B. Have a behavioral action• C. Use simple terms• D. Use a few headings

When searching for information for a client about the social issues surrounding child abuse and neglect, which is the best database to use?

• A. HEDIR• B. Psychic• C. ERIC• D. Index Medicus

The specific helping relationship created when a health education specialist assists an organization, but does not ultimately make direct changes is referred to as:

• A. advisory.• B. adversarial.• C. technical.• D. consultative.

Which Web site extension for the sample domain name is most likely to contain valid information?

• A. Nutrition.com• B. Nutrition.epi• C. Nutrition.usa• D. Nutrition.gov

The American Heart Association has created a pamphlet outlining heart disease death rates among Americans over the age of 40. This is an example of:

• A. primary data source.• B. tertiary data source.• C. secondary data source. • D. qualitative data source.

The health education specialist wishes to raise public awareness of an important health issue using such tools as a press release, Letter to the Editor, and interactive Web 2.0 resources. Awareness strategies using these tools would be considered:

• A. media advocacy. • B. policy advocacy. • C. legislative advocacy. • D. public practice advocacy.

Your advocacy efforts are starting to be successful in a town that has historically been pro-tobacco. The city council has voted 4-1 to hold a town meeting to discuss a clean air ordinance. Which type of advocacy benchmark is this? • A. Community or individual behavior• B. Shifts in critical mass• C. Changing definitions/reframing• D. Institutional policy

The three key domains of evidence-based health policy include:

• A. process, content, outcomes.• B. process, impact, outcome.• C. formative, summative, impact.• D. impact, surveillance, outputs.

The most recent 18-month project to validate the contemporary practice of entry-level and advanced-level health education specialists was the:

• A. Competency Update Project (CUP)• B. Health Educator Job Analysis (HEJA)• C. 2006 Revised Framework• D. National Commission on Certifying Agencies

A health department wishes to create educational print materials for community members with language disorders and low literacy levels. Which of the following is most effective in determining the reading level of those written materials?

• A. Crisp Readability Formula• B. FLASH• C. SMOG• D. Log-Gunning Index