Event Code: 3-2007
For Continuing Education Contact Hours Article.
Selected Health Status Indicators and Behaviors of Young Adults, United States-2003
Congruent to Responsibility VI: Community health and health education needs, concerns and resources
1. The purpose of the study was to examine the prevalence of selected-- among young adults.
a. clinical preventive health services
b. health status indicators
c. health risk behaviors
d. all of the above
2. Which of the following health status variables was assessed?
a. overweight or obesity
b. high blood pressure
c. blood cholesterol
d. all of the above
3. Which of the following risk behaviors was assessed?
a. current alcohol use
b. current binge drinking
c. current cigarette smoking
d. all of the above
4. The total unweighted sample size was
a. 16,925
b. 18,450
c. 19,340
d. 21,300
5. What percentage of young adults currently had health care coverage?
a. 69.8%
b. 72.3%
c. 76.8%
d. 79.1%
6. What percentage of young adults had ever had their blood cholesterol checked?
a. 43.8%
b. 44.7%
c. 48.9%
d. 51.6%
7. What percentage of young adults were overweight or obese?
a. 31.3%
b. 32.4%
c. 33.6%
d. 39.1%
8. Educational attainment was positively associated with indicators of health status.
a. true b. false
9. What percentage of young adults reported current alcohol use?
a. 61.3%
b. 65%
c. 68.4%
d. 71.3%
10. Married students were less likely to engage in risk behaviors than students who were not married.
a. true
b. false
Event Code: 4-2007
For Continuing Education Hours Article
Determinants of Nutrition Label Use Among College Students
Congruent to Responsibility I: Assessing individual and community needs for health education
1. A 1995 study found that both gender and--of respondents influence label reading behavior.
a. age
b. major
c. educational level
d. health status
2. According to the authors,--research articles were identified in the past four years of the American Journal of Health Education.
a. 9
b. 12
c. 15
d. 18
3. The purpose of this research was to assess the frequency of nutrition label usage among college students and determine if label users differed from non-users in terms of their
a. knowledge of nutritional labels
b. attitudes toward nutrition labels
c. beliefs about diet-disease relationships
d. all of the above
4. What type of research design was used in this study?
a. experimental
b. prospective
c. cross-sectional
d. historical
5. The --sample of 1,294 students was from a large university in Texas.
a. random
b. convenience
c. stratified
d. cluster
6. The survey instrument contained--items.
a. 57
b. 67
c. 77
d. 87
7. The attitude scale assessed perceptions of usefulness,--and accuracy of nutrition labels.
a. readability
b. sensitivity
c. truthfulness
d. cost
8. Bivariate analyses included Student's independent sample t-tests to compare label use and--.
a. cost
b. gender groups
c. attitudes
d. age groups
9. What percentage of participants claimed to look at nutritional facts labels when purchasing food?
a. 50%
b. 65.3%
c. 85.4%
d. 91.7%
10. According to the authors, although statistically significant differences were found, it is important to understand that statistical significance is not necessarily equivalent to practical significance.
a. true
b. false
