CHAPTER 8

Question 1

What is a Non-communicable disease?

Answer 1

A preventable cause of death or disability including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and many cancers.

Question 2

What was the leading cause of death in the United States in 2016 and 2017 (years listed in the book)

Answer 2

Heart disease

Question 3

What is Primary Intervention?

Answer 3

Activities that can prevent illness or disease, such as weight-bearing activity to prevent osteoporosis, or

Question 4

What is Secondary Prevention?

Answer 4

Activities that are provided after the onset of pathology and are intended to minimize the progression and severity of the disease. Such as screening for Scoliosis

Question 5

What is Tertiary Prevention?

Answer 5

Tertiary Prevention seeks to reduce the effect of an already established disease and improve the quality of life of a patient. Examples are providing a POC to a patient who had a stroke

Question 6

What is Health Promotion?

Answer 6

The process of enabling people to increase control over. and improve their health.

Question 7

What is the definition of Health?

Answer 7

A state of complete physical, social, and emotional well-being. Not just simply an absence of disease.

Question 8

What is the definition of Wellness?

Answer 8

An individual’s sense of growth and balance over the Physical, Psychological, social, and intellectual domains. Being aware of and making conscious decisions to improve your health.

Question 9

What is Health-related quality of life (HRQOL)?

Answer 9

An Individual or group’s perceived mental health over time. Basically how someone sees their quality of life.

Question 10

What is Lifestyle?

Answer 10

A way of living based on identifiable patterns of behavior. It is determined by an individual’s personal characteristics, social
interactions, and socioeconomic and environmental
living conditions

Question 11

What is Health Behavior?

Answer 11

Any activity undertaken by an individual in order to promote, protect, or maintain their health, whether or not it actually does.

Question 12

What health-related components are included in Physical Fitness?

Answer 12

-Cardiorespiratory endurance
* Muscular strength
* Muscular endurance
* Body composition
* Flexibility

Question 13

How many minutes of exercise does a healthy adult need?

Answer 13

150 minutes of moderate or 75-150 minutes of vigorous physical activity, or an equivalent combination per week. Muscle strengthening activities of moderate or greater intensity of all major muscle groups 2 or more days a week.

Question 14

What is the leading cause of PREVENTABLE death in the United States?

Answer 14

Smokin

Question 15

What are the five A’s of smoking cessation?

Answer 15

 Ask about tobacco use
 Advise to quit smoking
 Assess willingness to quit
 Assist patient to quit
 Arrange for follow-up

Question 16

What is the definition of stress?

Answer 16

The nonspecific response of the body to any demand

Question 17

What is the Transtheoretical model?

Answer 17

A theory about the stages a person goes through when attempting to change themselves.

Question 18

What are the five steps to the transtheoretical model?

Answer 18

-Precontemplation – unaware of the need to change or having tried
and failed to change
* Contemplation – weighing the pros and cons of changing but not
taking action yet
* Preparation – starting to make plans to change
* Action – engaging in the behavior
* Maintenance – has engaged in the behavior for more than 6 months

Question 19

What are the three factors of the Social Cognitive Theory?

Answer 19

-Environmental factors (aspects of the environment that support
the behavior)
-Personal factors (thoughts and beliefs, self-efficacy)
- Behavioral factors (aspects of the behavior itself that make it
easier to perform the behavior)

Question 20

What are the three basic psychological needs based on the Self-Determination Theory?

Answer 20

-Competence (degree to which a person can achieve desired
outcomes as a result of the behavior)
-Autonomy (degree to which a person feels responsible for the
initiation and maintenance of the behavior)
- Relatedness (extent to which a person feels connected to
others)

Question 21

What are Clinical Measure of health?

Answer 21

Blood pressure, body weight, height, body fat, etc

Question 22

What is a Health Risk Assessment (HRA)?

Answer 22

An overall assessment of health based on history and self-reporting of present health-related behaviors. Provides

Question 23

What are the four requirements necessary to adopt a regular health behavior?

Answer 23

1.Awareness (conscious awareness of the harmful
and positive health effects of the behavior)
2. Skill (the ability to perform the behavior)
3. Motivation (intrinsic value of regularly performing the
behavior)
4. Environmental supports or opportunities