Title: Final Exam
Course: DES 2701 Community Oral Health > Section: Module 12 - Program Evaluation

Q: You have recently been hired by the State Health Department as a Dental Health Consultant for geriatric patients. There is concern that senior citizens may not be receiving information regarding root caries and tooth loss. Your supervisor has asked you to evaluate the situation.

The first step you would take would be to:
- determine a budget.
- conduct a survey.
- initiate program planning.
- implement a program.
A: conduct a survey.

Q: (Continued) You have recently been hired by the State Health Department as a Dental Health Consultant for geriatric patients. There is concern that senior citizens may not be receiving information regarding root caries and tooth loss. Your supervisor has asked you to evaluate the situation.

Which of the following is the public health equivalent to an examination in private practice?
- program planning
- program implementation
- survey
- analysis
A: survey

Q: (Continued) You have recently been hired by the State Health Department as a Dental Health Consultant for geriatric patients. There is concern that senior citizens may not be receiving information regarding root caries and tooth loss. Your supervisor has asked you to evaluate the situation.

The correct sequence to follow in responding to this concern that seniors may not be receiving this information is: 1) policy development, 2) assurance, 3) assessment
- 1, 2, 3
- 1, 3, 2
- 2, 1, 3
- 3, 1, 2
A: 3, 1, 2

Q: (Continued) You have recently been hired by the State Health Department as a Dental Health Consultant for geriatric patients. There is concern that senior citizens may not be receiving information regarding root caries and tooth loss. Your supervisor has asked you to evaluate the situation.

You form alliances with several nursing home administrators while gaining background information, primarily an example of which of the following roles of the dental hygienist?
- service provider/clinician
- consultant/resource person
- consumer advocate/change agent
- administrator/manager
A: consultant/resource person

Q: (Continued) You have recently been hired by the State Health Department as a Dental Health Consultant for geriatric patients. There is concern that senior citizens may not be receiving information regarding root caries and tooth loss. Your supervisor has asked you to evaluate the situation.

Which public health goal would most likely be met through your intervention?
- promotes and encourages healthy behaviors
- prevent epidemics
- protects against environmental hazards
- prevents injuries
A: promotes and encourages healthy behaviors

Q: (Continued)  Your mentor is retiring after teaching at the local dental hygiene program for many years and has asked you to be her replacement. You find her learning materials for teaching the Public Health course need updating. As you revamp the course several of your colleagues start asking questions about how you intend to change the curriculum.

One of your colleagues mentions that she learned that the cognitive approach is best and inquires as to how your approach of experiential learning differs. You respond that:
- experiential learning incorporates personal experiences with the application of new skills.
- some people are verbal, some are visual, and this type of learning favors the visual learner.
- it depends upon which psychological theory appeals best to you.
- they are really both the same.
A: experiential learning incorporates personal experiences with the application of new skills.

Q: (Continued) Your mentor is retiring after teaching at the local dental hygiene program for many years and has asked you to be her replacement. You find her learning materials for teaching the Public Health course need updating. As you revamp the course several of your colleagues start asking questions about how you intend to change the curriculum.

You describe the concept of service-learning (SL) to your colleague and explain that:
- the end product is a one-way directional process from service to learning.
- the community partner’s objectives are called learning objectives (LO).
- the service is the academic goal and the learning is the community task.
- it implies equality between the service as received by the community partner and the learning for the dental hygiene student.
A: it implies equality between the service as received by the community partner and the learning for the dental hygiene student.

Q: (Continued) Your mentor is retiring after teaching at the local dental hygiene program for many years and has asked you to be her replacement. You find her learning materials for teaching the Public Health course need updating. As you revamp the course several of your colleagues start asking questions about how you intend to change the curriculum.

Your colleague is intrigued, and asks who should be responsible for planning the SL project. You respond that it involves the course instructor, students, and:
- faculty.
- program administrator.
- community partner.
- state dental board.
A: community partner.

Q: (Continued)  Your mentor is retiring after teaching at the local dental hygiene program for many years and has asked you to be her replacement. You find her learning materials for teaching the Public Health course need updating. As you revamp the course several of your colleagues start asking questions about how you intend to change the curriculum.

The colleague says that she can see the benefit for students, but not for the community partner. After expressing her concern, she asks you to respond to the question “what’s in it for them”?
- Personal contact decreases the tendency to stereotype and increases interpersonal skills.
- A major benefit is the opportunity to create long-term community-campus relationships.
- The experience can be linked to future employment opportunities.
- Nothing, they are there for the benefit of the students.
A: A major benefit is the opportunity to create long-term community-campus relationships.

Q: (Continued)  Your mentor is retiring after teaching at the local dental hygiene program for many years and has asked you to be her replacement. You find her learning materials for teaching the Public Health course need updating. As you revamp the course several of your colleagues start asking questions about how you intend to change the curriculum.

You approach the school administrator for approval of the project. One question that arises concerns risk management. Which of the following stakeholders should be involved in planning for risk management? 1) students and faculty, 2) academic institution, 3) community agency and community members
- 1, 2, 3
- 1, 2
- 1, 3
- 2, 3
A: 1, 2, 3

Q: Your sister is thrilled to tell you that she is expecting a child. She wonders if you would be interested in speaking about oral health care concerns for her hospital-based group of expectant mothers. You enthusiastically agree and then start to develop your program.

Your sister tells you that her group is feeling tremendous responsibility for their unborn children, and that several members are interested in a more healthful lifestyle since they now have more than themselves to think about. You comment that this is more common than she might think and a perfect example of which of the following health promotion theories?
- Health belief model
- Stages of change theory
- Social learning theory
- Community organization theory
A: Stages of change theory

Q: (Continued) Your sister is thrilled to tell you that she is expecting a child. She wonders if you would be interested in speaking about oral health care concerns for her hospital-based group of expectant mothers. You enthusiastically agree and then start to develop your program.

In order to help your sister and her cohort group, you embark on the first stage of the Health Communication Process, which is:
- implement the program.
- assessing effectiveness and making refinements.
- planning and strategy development.
- developing and pretesting concepts, messages, and materials.
A: planning and strategy development.

Q: (Continued) Your sister is thrilled to tell you that she is expecting a child. She wonders if you would be interested in speaking about oral health care concerns for her hospital-based group of expectant mothers. You enthusiastically agree and then start to develop your program.

You decide that a _________ message would be most effective way to reach the group.
- tailored
- generic
- targeted
- personalized
A: tailored

Q: (Continued) Your sister is thrilled to tell you that she is expecting a child. She wonders if you would be interested in speaking about oral health care concerns for her hospital-based group of expectant mothers. You enthusiastically agree and then start to develop your program.

You decide to utilize a hands-on, interactive, multimedia format for your presentation, because you know the people usually remember 90% of what they:
- read.
- see.
- see and hear.
- see, hear, and do.
A: see, hear, and do.

Q: (Continued) Your sister is thrilled to tell you that she is expecting a child. She wonders if you would be interested in speaking about oral health care concerns for her hospital-based group of expectant mothers. You enthusiastically agree and then start to develop your program.

Most participants reported an increase in their knowledge of the causes of early childhood caries when surveyed following the presentation, an example of _________ evaluation.
- formative, quantitative
- formative, qualitative
- summative, quantitative
- summative, qualitative
A: summative, quantitative

Q: Many people in your community have recently lost their jobs and dental benefits due to economic hardship. A local community medical and dental center has opened with the help of a federal government grant.

The administrator of the center tells you that she is “Certified in Public Health”. This means that she:
- passed an examination administered by the National Board of Public Health Examiners (NBPHE).
- took a one-week continuing education class at a proprietary school.
- passed an online examination administered by The American Dental Association.
- does not have any official credential.
A: passed an examination administered by the National Board of Public Health Examiners (NBPHE).

Q: (Continued) Many people in your community have recently lost their jobs and dental benefits due to economic hardship. A local community medical and dental center has opened with the help of a federal government grant.

As you are a local public health hygienist, the administrator asks you to come on board, and outlines the three core public health functions, which are:
- commitment, performance, reliability.
- assessment, policy development, assurance.
- analysis, heuristic, and outcome.
- assurance, commitment, and analysis.
A: assessment, policy development, assurance.

Q: (Continue)  Many people in your community have recently lost their jobs and dental benefits due to economic hardship. A local community medical and dental center has opened with the help of a federal government grant.

You are eager to help and the administrator suggests meeting with a/an ________________ who makes comparisons by examining the occurrences of the health events, locations, times, and variations to assess the distribution and determinants of health events.
- statistician
- attorney
- epidemiologist
- politician
A: epidemiologist

Q: (Continued) Many people in your community have recently lost their jobs and dental benefits due to economic hardship. A local community medical and dental center has opened with the help of a federal government grant.

The expert you meet with tells you that many of the displaced workers in the area are migrant workers from a country that believes that teeth are infected by tooth worms. This is an example of a ___________ factor in the population–based study of health.
- host
- agent
- environmental
- none of the above
A: environmental

Q: (Continued) Many people in your community have recently lost their jobs and dental benefits due to economic hardship. A local community medical and dental center has opened with the help of a federal government grant.

Furthermore, he tells you that many of the workers were exposed to high levels of pesticides, which is a/an ___________ factor that helps determine the health status of individuals or populations.
- personal
- economic
- social
- environmental
A: environmental

Q: You are dental hygienist who is involved in a mobile dental van school-based sealant program. As you are gathering your materials, you are approached by a concerned and confused young mother who has several questions.

She asks why sealants are necessary as they live in an area with fluoridated community water. You respond that:
- they are exclusionary and that if you have one you don’t need the other.
- she shouldn’t be concerned as they don’t cost her anything.
- since all of her child’s friends are receiving sealants, her child will be jealous if she does not receive them as well.
- dental sealants are more effective than fluoride in pits and fissures.
A: dental sealants are more effective than fluoride in pits and fissures.

Q: (Continued) You are dental hygienist who is involved in a mobile dental van school-based sealant program. As you are gathering your materials, you are approached by a concerned and confused young mother who has several questions.

She asks you why the sealants weren’t offered when her child was in nursery school, and you tell her that sealant programs generally focus on:
- 4- to 6-year-olds because the children are more easily managed when they get a little older.
- 6- to 8-year-olds because the first molars usually erupt during these years.
- 14- to 16- year olds because their gag reflex isn’t as strong as they get older and larger
- 16- to 18-year-olds because they have bad dietary habits.
A: 6- to 8-year-olds because the first molars usually erupt during these years.

Q: (Continued) You are dental hygienist who is involved in a mobile dental van school-based sealant program. As you are gathering your materials, you are approached by a concerned and confused young mother who has several questions.

She wants to know how effective dental sealants are and you tell her that the CDC reports that school-based pit and fissure sealant programs reduce dental caries as much as __%.
- 20
- 40
- 60
- 80
A: 60

Q: (Continued) You are dental hygienist who is involved in a mobile dental van school-based sealant program. As you are gathering your materials, you are approached by a concerned and confused young mother who has several questions.

She asks you how many 8-year-old children like her daughter have sealants and you tell her that according to the 1998-1994 baseline data __% of 8-year-old children had dental sealants on their permanent molars.
- 23
- 33
- 43
- 53
A: 23

Q: (Continued) You are dental hygienist who is involved in a mobile dental van school-based sealant program. As you are gathering your materials, you are approached by a concerned and confused young mother who has several questions.

She asks you if sealants contain fluoride because she read on a website that fluoride is toxic, and you tell her:
- the arguments against fluoride do not have any merit based on scientific knowledge.
- there are many adverse health effects associated with fluoride and that a sealant that does not contain fluoride will be used.
- she can get a water filter that will remove fluoride from tap water if she is concerned about the safety of her daughter.
- it is more of a concern for adults due to osteoporosis than it is for children.
A: the arguments against fluoride do not have any merit based on scientific knowledge.