Question 1

Your doctor is quite brusque; you're in and out of her office in three minutes. The talk at visits sound something like, "This is good, this is bad, this needs fixing, this is what you have to do, see you next time. Next!" You and your physician have _______ relationship.

Accepted Answer

A)   a machine-and-mechanics
B)   a child-parent
C)   an action-facilitating
D)   a nurturing
E)   a peripheral A

Question 2

Professionals at all levels of the health care system are working to grant patients greater involvement in and control over their health and well-being services and practices, hoping to boost ___________.

Accepted Answer

A)   nurturing support
B)   action-facilitating support
C)   the placebo effect
D)   patient activation
E)   the speed of health-care delivery D

Question 3

The Centers for Disease Control created the ___________________ program in order to ensure the accuracy of health information used in television programs and films and to help with their health-related plotlines.

Accepted Answer

A)   Health & Media Accuracy
B)   TV Education
C)   The More You Know
D)   Hollywood, Health & Society
E)   Media & Medicine D

Question 4

The Health Belief Model argues that six main constructs influence people's decisions about whether to take action to prevent, screen for, and control illness. People, it says, will act if they….. Finish this explanation. In other words, what are those six constructs and how do they combine to move people toward taking more control over their personal health and well-being?

Accepted Answer

The answer of The Health Belief Model argues that six...

Question 5

The Sorry Works Coalition calls for _________ in the case of a medical error.

Accepted Answer

A)   admittance of guilt
B)   defending the physician's actions
C)   immediate intervention by outside regulators
D)   immediate intervention by outside investigators
E)   patients getting lawyers if there is a problem

Question 6

Kaiser's Four Habits model includes the requirement to______________.

Accepted Answer

A)   demonstrate the power of persuasion
B)   clearly establish the power-distance relationship up front
C)   talk to family and friends for a clearer picture of the illness
D)   elicit the patient's perspective
E)   be prepared to say "Sorry"

Question 7

____________ die sooner and experience higher rates of disease and injury than people living in any other high-income country.

Accepted Answer

A)   Europeans
B)   South Americans
C)   Canadians
D)   Americans
E)   Italians

Question 8

Your brother-in-law is sick in bed and getting pretty depressed about it, so you give him daily pep talks on how much better things will be when he's back on his feet, offering ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   an intervention
B)   nurturing support
C)   action-facilitating support
D)   support grouping
E)   familial support

Question 9

Two reasons that provider-patient interpersonal communication is often problematic is the power distance between providers and clients and the reluctance this produces on the part of clients to speak up. How does the way that doctors and practitioners communicate affect or lead to these problems? How have some patients been empowered to reverse these effects and what are some other solutions that may facilitate better communication?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Two reasons that provider-patient interpersonal communication is...

Question 10

Health communication campaigns such as the anti-smoking I Learned It by Watching You! and Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk generally have one of two goals, to raise awareness of important health issues and to _______________.

Accepted Answer

A)   help reduce health-care costs by encouraging self-diagnosis
B)   change individuals' health behaviors and attitudes
C)   meet minimum government standards of health information
D)   fulfill broadcasters' licensing obligations
E)   help encourage greater interaction between providers and now-informed patients

Question 11

One idea for making provider-client interactions more effective is to boost health care providers' _______, their ability to acknowledge, absorb, interpret, and act on the stories and plights told to them by their clients.

Accepted Answer

A)   nonverbal immediacy
B)   listening ability
C)   narrative competence
D)   interpersonal competence
E)   face-to-face competence

Question 12

_____ are people who compulsively search online for information about real or imagined symptoms of illness.

Accepted Answer

A)   Cyber-enthusiasts
B)   Cyber doctors
C)   Cyberchondriacs
D)   Web MDs
E)   Digital doctors

Question 13

You have seen all the posters around campus telling you to eat healthier. You know you should and you know that there is a tendency toward high blood pressure in your family, so a good diet is a smart choice. But you just can't adopt the kind of diet this campaign suggests because it's tough to eat well on a student's lowly income. The Health Belief Model would argue that you failed to adopt the healthy behavior because of your perception of ____________.

Accepted Answer

A)   your susceptibility to the illness
B)   the barriers to action
C)   a lack of an external cue to action
D)   your ability to garner support from friends
E)   the level of their doctor's support

Question 14

You have seen all the posters around campus telling you to eat healthier but they just don't move you to action. Yes, you are aware that there is a tendency toward high blood pressure in your family, but you are in good health and get plenty of exercise so you'll be OK. The Health Belief Model would argue that you failed to adopt the healthy behavior because of your perception of ____________.

Accepted Answer

A)   your susceptibility to the illness
B)   the barriers to action
C)   a lack of an external cue to action
D)   your ability to successfully perform the action
E)   the level of their doctor's support

Question 15

Wind turbine syndrome is an example of a ___________, an imagined disease that spreads because people talk about it.

Accepted Answer

A)   cyberchrondria
B)   communicable disease
C)   communicated disease
D)   nocebo
E)   placebo

Question 16

Family and friends clearly affect health and well-being. Detail the health benefits of those relationships and discuss some contemporary efforts to maximize their value. Give examples.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Family and friends clearly affect health and...

Question 17

One of the factors interfering with successful provider-patient interpersonal communication is fear of malpractice law suits. Is this fear misplaced, and if it is not, what are some proposed strategies for overcoming this impediment to successful meaning making?

Accepted Answer

The answer of One of the factors interfering with successful...

Question 18

Whenever Marcie feels the slightest pain she searches the Internet for hours trying to identify the disease that is plaguing her. She once mistook a headache for a brain tumor because Dr. Google told her so. Marcie is a __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   Cyberchondriac
B)   recividist
C)   safe-surfer
D)   digital diagnose
E)   digital doctor

Question 19

Health and communication researchers have demonstrated that Americans' unhealthy behaviors can be modified through ___________ and larger, mass-mediated public health efforts.

Accepted Answer

A)   targeted government intervention
B)   better health literacy in the early school years
C)   effective interpersonal communication
D)   better nurse-surgeon interaction
E)   more health literacy

Question 20

Liam needed to have surgery to reconstruct the airways of his nose, but his face is now paralyzed after the surgeon hit a nerve. This is an example of ___________.

Accepted Answer

A)   the nocebo effect
B)   amenable mortality
C)   patient activation
D)   dyspepsia
E)   an adverse event

Exam 14: Health Communication