Chapter 11 Health Promotion and Health Education Strategies

Chapter 11   Health Promotion and Health Education Strategies

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

1) The population health nurse is preparing material for a group of community members about health promotion. What should the nurse state that health promotion involves?

1. Education about healthy behavior, which leads to behavioral change.
2. Behavior manipulation through transfer of knowledge.
3. Informing the client about the nature and causes of illness.
4. Enabling clients and promoting community action.

Answer:  4

Explanation:  4. Health promotion enables clients, empowers them, and promotes community action. Knowledge of healthy behavior does not lead to behavioral change. Health promotion rejects manipulation of behavior but focuses on increasing one’s capacity to act rather than be acted upon. Health education includes informing the client about the nature and causes of illness.

Nursing/Int.Conc:  Nursing Process: Planning

Client Need:  Health Promotion and Maintenance

Cognitive Level:  Application

Learning Outcome:  11-1

2) The nurse is comparing and contrasting examples of health promotion and health education to a group of student nurses. Which topic is most appropriate to include in health education?

1. Political lobbying.
2. Raising critical consciousness.
3. Developing self-care skills.
4. Developing public policy.

Answer:  3

Explanation:  3. Health education includes development of self-care skills. Political lobbying, raising critical consciousness, and developing public policy are part of health promotion, not health education.

Nursing/Int.Conc:  Nursing Process: Implementation

Client Need:  Health Promotion and Maintenance

Cognitive Level:  Application

Learning Outcome:  11-2

3) After an outbreak of measles at a local high school the nurse encourages students who are susceptible to have the measles immunization because of the serious consequences from the disease. After educating the students on the benefits of the immunization most students decide the benefits outweigh the barriers. What model was used to guide health promotion in this situation?

1. Precaution Adoption Process model.
2. Health Belief model.
3. Pender’s Health Promotion model.
4. Theory of Reasoned Action model.

Answer:  2

Explanation:  2. The Health Belief model includes individual perceptions of susceptibility and seriousness, modifying factors, perceptions of benefits and barriers to action, and cues to action. The Precaution Adoption Process model describes the stages that occur in decisions to adopt or not adopt a health-related behavior. Pender’s Health Promotion model states that commitment to action results in actual behavior but may be modified by competing demands and preferences. The Theory of Reasoned Action model is based on the premises that attitudes to a health-related behavior reflect a person’s attitudes to the expected consequences of the behavior, and attitudes are the product of subjective norms influenced by others.

Nursing/Int.Conc:  Nursing Process: Evaluation

Client Need:  Health Promotion and Maintenance

Cognitive Level:  Analysis

Learning Outcome:  11-3

4) The nurse is using the premise that attitudes to a health-related behavior reflect a person’s attitudes to the expected consequences of the behavior. The nurse is using the:

1. Theory of Reasoned Action model.
2. Pender Health Promotion model.
3. Precaution Adoption Process model.
4. Health Belief model.

Answer:  1

Explanation:  1. The Theory of Reasoned Action model is based on two premises. The first premise is that attitudes to a health-related behavior reflect a person’s attitudes to the expected consequences; the second premise is that attitudes are the product of subjective norms influenced by others. Pender’s Health Promotion model directs nursing interventions for health promotion. Pender’s model describes behavior being influenced by attitudes and behavior-specific cognitions and affect that result in a commitment to action. The Precaution Adoption Process model describes the stages that occur in decisions to adopt or not adopt a health-related behavior. The Health Belief model includes individual perceptions of susceptibility and seriousness, modifying factors, perceptions of benefits and barriers to actions, and cues to action.

Nursing/Int.Conc:  Nursing Process: Implementation

Client Need:  Health Promotion and Maintenance

Cognitive Level:  Analysis

Learning Outcome:  11-3