Exam 5: Health-Compromising Behaviors

The goals of cardiac rehabilitation is to produce relief from symptoms,reduce the severity of the disease,limit further progression of the disease,and promote psychological and social adjustment.

Diabetes is a risk factor for coronary heart disease.

Explain why adherence to diabetic treatment programs is so difficult for most people to achieve.

______________ are the most common drug treatment for reducing the incidence of death,heart attack,and stroke.

Individuals who are high in hostility

Drug treatments for hypertension

According to research cited in your text,the relationship between greater physiological and psychological reactivity in conflictive situations,i.e.,cynical hostility,and heart disease MAY NOT be due to

Cardiac rehabilitation programs involve

Cognitive-behavioral techniques

,the family environment that fosters _______________ may then contribute to hypertension.

The role of stress in the development and exacerbation of hypertension

Explain the relationship of lifestyle factors to coronary heart disease and cardiac rehabilitation.

The correlation between beliefs about level of blood pressure and actual blood pressure is

Hostility has been traced to

Which of the following would BEST predict compliance with a diabetic treatment regimen?

Poor adherence to diabetic regimens by people with Type II diabetes most often is due to

The personality quality "agency" is associated with ______________,whereas "communion" is associated with ______________.

"John Henryism" is a personality predisposition

The risk factors for stroke

What ethnic differences have been found in the incidence of hypertension? What racial and psychosocial factors may be implicated in these ethnic differences?