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1
Q

Which of the following was NOT a feature of the HIV prevention intervention program implemented by Fisher and colleagues (2002) for high school students?

a. recommending sexual abstinence as the only way to prevent HIV transmission
b. changing students’ attitudes and social norms about HIV risk and prevention
c. factual information about HIV transmission and prevention
d. training in effectively communicating about safer sex

A

recommending sexual abstinence as the only way to prevent HIV transmission

2
Q

In the behavioural change program to address the high rate of smoking in China, what was the most innovative aspect of that program?

a. It was the parents of smokers who intervened with their children to stop smoking.
b. It was the spouses of smokers who intervened with their partners to stop smoking.
c. It was the children of smokers who intervened with their fathers to stop smoking.
d. The government paid people to stop smoking.

A

It was the children of smokers who intervened with their fathers to stop smoking

3
Q

Ping lives in China and recently helped with a massive antismoking campaign. What did she likely do?

a. Threatened to divorce her husband if he didn’t stop smoking.
b. Made an agreement with her spouse to stop smoking.
c. Received a bonus at work to employees because she quit smoking.
d. Reported her father’s smoking habits to her school principal.

A

Reported her father’s smoking habits to her school principal.

4
Q

In 1989, health professionals in China began a massive antismoking effort in several cities, which involved children whose fathers smoked. Which of the following did NOT occur as part of this effort?

a. Children wrote letters to their fathers asking them to quit smoking.
b. Children submitted monthly reports on their fathers’ smoking habits to their schools.
c. Photos of the fathers who continued smoking were published in the school newspapers.
d. Schoolchildren were given antismoking literature and questionnaires to take home to their fathers.

A

Photos of the fathers who continued smoking were published in the school newspapers

5
Q

In the 1989 massive antismoking campaign in China, the results indicated that 12 percent of the 10 000 fathers in the intervention group quit smoking for at least six months. In a control group of 10 000, how many quit smoking?

a. 0.1 percent
b. 0.2 percent
c. 2.2 percent
d. 4.0 percent

A

b. 0.2 percent

6
Q

One of the most successful efforts to reduce risk factors for a medical condition involved three entire communities in California, in which residents received one of three different types of interventions or no intervention at all. What was the targeted condition in this effort?

a. heart disease
b. cancer
c. obesity
d. diabetes

A

a. heart disease

7
Q

Meyer and colleagues (1980) conducted a community study in California to reduce the risk factors for coronary heart disease. What did the results indicate as the most effective aspect of intervention?

a. hiring research assistants to monitor each participant’s daily behaviours
b. a media education campaign aimed at the children of parents at risk for heart disease
c. paying individuals to change their risky behaviours
d. individual counselling in addition to a media campaign about heart disease

A

d. individual counselling in addition to a media campaign about heart disease

8
Q

In an effort to reduce sexual infections among inner-city black females, a program called SIHLE (Sistas Informing, Healing, Living, Empowering) was developed. Unlike other prevention programs, what was the focus of this program?

a. cognitive decision-making skills
b. building motivation through instilling pride
c. providing condoms
d. developing relationships with community health-care providers

A

b. building motivation through instilling pride