Risk and Uncertainty + Environmental Influences - Year 1

Question 1

What are the different coping mechanisms?

Answer 1

• Problem focused
  o Enlist help from family/ friends/ colleagues etc.
• Emotion focused:
  o Seek counselling/stress management( positive response)
  o Drug/alcohol misuse (negative response)
• Combined

Question 2

What is the Calgray Cambridge Model?

Answer 2

1. Initiating the session
2. Gathering information
3. Providing structure
4. Building relationship
5. Explanations and planning
6. Closing the session

Question 3

Define the following:

• Hazard
• Risk
• Risk factor
• Protective factor
• Susceptibility

Answer 3

Hazard- Something with potential to cause harm

Risk- The likelihood of harm occurring

Risk factor- Increases the risk of harm

Protective factor- Decreases the risk of harm

Susceptibility- Influences the likelihood that something will cause harm

Question 4

What are the different types of hazards?

Answer 4

1. Physical
2. Chemical
3. Mechanical
4. Biological
5. Psychosocial

Question 5

What are the different routes of exposure?

Answer 5

1. Skin
2. Blood/ sexual
3. Inhalation
4. Ingestion

Question 6

Factors that influences an individual risk perception?

Answer 6

• Previous experience
• Attitudes towards risk
• Values
• Beliefs
• Socio-economic factors
• Personality
• Demographic factors

Question 7

What advice can you give when safety netting?

Answer 7

1. Advise patient of expected course of illness/recovery
2. Advise of symptoms indicating deterioration
3. Advise who to contact if patient deteriorates