Deck 6: Middle-Aged Adult, Screening, Health Education, Nutrition and Health Promotion

Question 1

A nurse has been asked to develop a visiting plan for a mobile mammogram van. Which of the following factors would be considerations for the nurse when deciding which neighbourhoods to visit?

A) Indigenous women have the highest rate of breast cancer as compared to other demographic groups in Canada.
B) The death rate from breast cancer is higher in Indigenous women than for women in other ethnic groups.
C) The death rate from breast cancer in Indigenous women has risen in the past 10 years.
D) Breast cancer in Indigenous women is usually diagnosed at an early stage.

Answer 1

The death rate from breast cancer is higher in Indigenous women than for women in other ethnic groups.

Question 2

Which of the following are the leading causes of death during middle adulthood? (Select all that apply.)

A) Cancer
B) Heart disease
C) Unintentional injuries
D) Osteoporosis

Answer 2

Cancer
Heart disease
Unintentional injuries

Question 3

Which of the following goals would be consistent with the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health, as it pertains to screening and health promotion?

A) Promoting mammography for all women
B) Encouraging colonoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer for all adults
C) Educating high-school students regarding sun safety
D) Increasing screening via CT scans to detect brain tumours.

Answer 3

Educating high-school students regarding sun safety

Question 4

REACH (Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health) provides strategies to facilitate health promotion within diverse populations. The common thread to all of these strategies is:

A) providing mentorship.
B) building trust.
C) creating safe and crime-free communities.
D) decreasing poverty and economic disparities.

Question 5

A nurse would like to assist Canadians in improving their health. Which strategy would be most beneficial to improve the health of the Canadian public?

A) Encourage Canadians to stop smoking.
B) Lobby for state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging machines in all hospitals.
C) Provide free medications for Canadians.
D) Offer free condoms to adolescents.

Question 6

Which of the following statements about the current prevalence of obesity in Canada is accurate?

A) The current generation of children may be less healthy and have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.
B) The current incidence of obesity among Canadian adults has stabilized.
C) The current statistics show that greater than 75% of Canadian adults are either overweight or obese.
D) The current statistics report that about 50% of Canadian children are either overweight or obese.

Question 7

According to the Canadian Health Measures Survey report, what percentage of adults 18 years of age or older are not accumulating the recommended amount of physical activity per week?

A) 16%
B) 56%
C) 85%
D) 95%

Question 8

A nurse is providing care for a 15-year-old boy with a body mass index (BMI) of 28 kg/m². Which of the following best describes this boy?

A) Normal weight
B) Overweight
C) Obese
D) Morbidly obese

Question 9

Which of the following statements regarding obesity is correct according to Statistics Canada?

A) The prevalence of obese children, adolescents, and adults in Canada has increased and is high.
B) Ten percent (10%) of children and adolescents are obese.
C) The rate of childhood obesity shows sex differences.
D) All of the above statements are correct.