MOOC Flashcards
Which of the following is not true:
- Research has shown that quitting smoking at any age leads to health benefits
- When women quit smoking before or around their thirties, their chance to die from any cause decreases to a level comparable to that of women who never smoked
- To decrease your relative risk to die from lung cancer, you must quit smoking before your fifties
- At any age, a woman that smokes has about three times more chance to die from any cause than a non-smoking woman
La última es correcta
Worldwide…
- About 1 in 4 people smoke, more than half of them say they want to quit. Of those who try to quit without treatment, about 1 in 20 is still abstinent one year later
- A continuing decrease in smoking prevalence can be observed from 1980 until today
- In developed countries, the smoking prevalence among men is about equal the prevalence among women.
- The difference in smoking prevalence between people with and without a probable mental illness is decreasing.
La última no es
Evaluate the following two statements:
Statement A: “The majority of smokers who tried to stop smoking in the last 12 months made use of at least one form of assistance.”
Statement B: “When people try to quit smoking and seek assistance, they mostly make use of a form of nicotine replacement therapy”
A is wrong
B is correct
If you are a smoker who has the intention to quit, your chance to succeed
- is highest if you are motivated and quit on your own
- increases with every attempt you make
- is highest when you combine NRT and acupuncture
- increases when you are offered free nicotine patches
La primera no es
If a non-smoking woman of 51 has a 3% chance to die from a stroke and a 2% chance to die from pancreas cancer, then..
- her 51-year old smoking girlfriend has a 13.8% chance to die from a stroke and a 2.2% chance to die from pancreas cancer.
- her 51-year old smoking girlfriend has a 13.8% chance to die from a stroke and a 4.4% chance to die from pancreas cancer.
- her 51-year old smoking girlfriend has a 4.6% chance to die from a stroke and a 4.4% chance to die from pancreas cancer.
- her 51-year old smoking girlfriend has a 4.6% chance to die from a stroke and a 2.2% chance to die from pancreas cancer.
La segunda
Evaluate the following two statements:
Statement A: “The aerosol (vapor) produced by electronic cigarettes typically contains nicotine but no carbon monoxide, nor any of the toxicants and carcinogens found in the smoke of tobacco cigarettes.”
Statement B: “Nicotine (at doses typically consumed by smokers/vapers) does not cause serious adverse health effects such as acute cardiac events, coronary heart disease or cerebrovascular disease, and is not carcinogenic.”
A y B correctos NO
Which of the following statements is not true?
- the dose makes the poison the dose makes the poison
- everything is chemical
- both artifical, and natural chemicals, can lead to cancer
- when a carcinogen is present in a substance this means that consuming this substance will lead to cancer
La primera no es (es decir, es correcto)
Evaluate the following two statements:
Statement A: “Chemical studies are easy and fast to perform, they evaluate the chemical composition of a certain substance and provide a complete overview of all chemicals present in that substance.”
Statement B: “Clinical studies on humans in vivo are difficult and expensive to perform, they provide definite and objective evidence about the effects of use and rule out the need for long-term follow-up studies.”
A incorrecto y B correcto NO ES
Vaping…
- has an acute effect on the number of white blood cells
- immediately affects how much oxygen goes to the heart immediately affects how much oxygen goes to the heart
- can lower asthma complaints
- lowers your blood pressure
La segunda no es
Which percentage of the general population is estimated to have at least one mental disorder within a 12-month period? 5% 15% 30% 50%
30%
Below are definitions of the different requirements for any mental health innovation; Reach, Scalability, Affordability, Expansion of nonprofessional workforce. Which is false?
- ‘Reach’ means that you have to ensure that interventions can be implemented and adapted to varying local conditions, reaching the diverse group of people in need.
- ‘Scalability’ implies that a model should be applicable on a larger scale than traditional services.
- ‘Affordability’ requires a lower cost compared to the usual model
- ‘Expansion of nonprofessional workforce” implies the increase of the number of providers who can deliver interventions.
First one
Which of the following statements is true?
- Mental disorders are less impairing than common chronic medical disorders.
- Mental disorders are equally impairing than common chronic medical disorders.
- Mental disorders are more impairing than common medical disorders.
- The impairment of mental disorders has yet to be compared with that of common medical disorders.
3º
Which of the following statements is not a valid reason why merely expanding the workforce to deliver treatments with the usual one-to-one in-person model of care is not likely to have a major impact on the burdens of mental illness?
- Mental health professionals are concentrated in highly populated areas.
- Mental health professionals have insufficient knowledge of evidence-based practices to address common mental health problems.
- The majority of mental health professionals do not provide care to populations and clinical problems for which there is a great or expanding need.
- Few mental health professionals reflect the cultural and ethnic characteristics of those in need of care
2º
Which of the following applications could be considered a ‘disruptive innovation’ in mental healthcare, according to Kazdin and Rabbitt?
- Using smartphones and tablets to assess psychological states and bringing interventions to individuals in their everyday lives.
- Letting adolescents write regularly on a blog for 10 weeks to improve their self-esteem.
- Making lay counsellors administer a stepped- care intervention beginning with psychoeducation and followed by interpersonal psychotherapy.
- Helping people to exercise more often and eat differently in order to avoid symptoms of psychological disorders.
1º
Which of the following statements about Interapy is false?
- All interaction between patients and mental health personnel was conducted over a secure website.
- The contact was asynchronous.
- Screening, treatment, and outcome measurement were conducted without face-to-face contact.
- The dialogue is governed by a computer system that executes the treatment manual.
1º
When implemented during routine clinical practice, drop-out rates for Interapy were
- much higher compared to the regular Dutch mental healthcare.
- much lower compared to drop-out rates in controlled trials.
- comparable to the regular Dutch mental healthcare.
- much lower compared to the regular Dutch mental healthcare.
3º
Which of the following statements on Interapy is false?
- The Interapy studies obtained large effects, roughly similar to those of face-to-face CBT.
- One to three years after treatment, the symptoms were back to normal.
- Higher recovery rates were obtained using Interapy compared with experimental controls.
- If participants did not complete post-treatment measures, they were assumed to have gained nothing
2º
Which of the following statements is true?
- Most online interventions are based on psychodynamic therapy.
- Cognitive behavioural therapy seems to be equally effective for treating depression and anxiety.
- Online cognitive behavioural therapy has shown to be vastly superior compared to psychodynamic therapy.
- Online psychodynamic therapy has already shown to be effective for the treatment of a wide range of mental health disorders.
2º
For which statement on the acceptability of online therapy is there currently no evidence?
- When an online intervention is guided, client satisfaction is generally high.
- For ‘doers’, the computer seems to be a more than acceptable therapist.
- The majority of clients still prefer some sort of guidance or contact with a mental health professional.
- Mere online self-help interventions appeal to a large group of clients.
last one
According to Opriş et al. (2012), what disorder has received the least amount of investigation using VRET and regular therapy?
- Fear of flying
- Panic disorder/agoraphobia
- Acrophobia
- Social phobia
acrophobia
