Exam 8: Dental Health Education and Promotion

What is a scale that pinpoints a patient's physical condition on a continuum from death through varying degrees of illness to completely healthy functioning?

Choose the item that best matches each item of the following: -This model emphasizes providers and patients working together toward treatment.

A person's behavior intent is a combination of knowledge, values, and attitudes, which is emphasized in which theory?

Choose the item that best matches each item of the following: -This theory suggests that individuals become conditioned to specific stimuli to act in a specific way.

For an individual with poor oral care, what must be changed in order for him or her to adopt a healthy behavior such as daily brushing?

It is necessary to motivate a population in order to effectively promote value adoption and behavior change.

Choose the item that best matches each item of the following: -This theory is a macrotheory of human motivation concerned with the functioning of personality within social contexts.

Which of the following theories reinforces the belief that social pressure is significant in influencing behavior?

The primary goal of dental health education is the prevention of disease utilizing appropriate dental health interventions.

The social-cognitive theory postulates that an individual needs to be made aware of a health issue before he/she can act on it.

The changes an individual must make in order to attain health-which include precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, maintenance, and action-are the foundation of which theory?

The will of an individual to act is a ________.

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is arranged in ________.

The health belief model suggests that an individual must display a readiness to take action to avoid a disease and then must believe that he/she is ________.

What occurs when an individual gains control over his/her environment?

When using the five-dimensional health model, a patient's trust in a dental hygienist would be a positive input to which dimension?

The creation of a dental hygiene operatory section in the city's children's museum by the local dental hygiene association would be which type of activity?

Which factor does NOT influence motivation?

The theory of reasoned action focuses on the belief that people make rational decisions based on intent.

Choose the item that best matches each item of the following: -This theory suggests that learning can be facilitated through imitation.