CHES Exam Jeopardy
And Study Guide
Implement Health
Education
Conduct Evaluation
& Research Related
to Health Education
Administer and
Manage Health
Education
Serve as a Health
Education Resource
Person
Communicate and
Advocate for Health
and Health Education
Assess Needs, Assets
and Capacity for
Health Education
Plan Health
Education
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Data compiled by others, which may or may
not have been directly obtained from the
individual or population being assessed, is
know as:
• A. Secondary
• B. Primary
• C. Tertiary
• D. Internal
The first step in identifying a need for
community health education programs
should be to:
• A. assess existing individual behaviors
• B. establish program objectives
• C. conduct a community analysis
• D. determine the poverty level
Having a walking trail nearby is an example of
which factor related to behavior change:
• A. Predisposing
• B. Reinforcing
• C. Enabling
• D. Fostering
Types of factors that influence a person’s
health such as compliance, consumption
patterns, coping, preventative actions, and
self-care, are known as:
• A. genetic
• B. environmental
• C. individual
• D. behavioral
Which of the following is an example of
qualitative data that can be used to compile
community needs assessments?
• A. Census reports
• B. Focus groups
• C. Telephone surveys
• D. Mortality Tables
A health education specialist in charge of coordinating his/her
agency’s new outreach program wishes to start the strategic
planning process. Which is the best first step to take?
• A. Identifying stakeholders
• B. Agree on a strategic planning process
• C. Clarify organizational mandates
• D. Develop the mission statement
Smoking bans are an example of which of the
following strategies?
• A. Health-related community service
• B. Health-related educational
• C. Health policy and enforcement
• D. Health communication
In considering the objective, “All youth
participating in the after-school program will have
a safe ride home at the end of the activity,” the
health education specialist recognizes that
transportation is a tangible resources. In this
scenario he/she is:
• A. writing behavioral objectives.
• B. assessing resources.
• C. designing a transportation intervention.
• D. assessing effectiveness.
Which of the following is an example of a
learning objective?
• A. Individuals participating in the health education program will be
able to identify three ways to protect their skin from the sun.
• B. Individuals in the program will increase their cardiovascular activity
by 25% by the sixth week of the program.
• C. 75% of individuals participating in the program will consume five to
nine vegetables per day over the next three months.
• D. Program health education specialists will identify 10 new
participants for each program period.
When thinking theoretically about designing
theory-based practice, the health education
specialist is:
• A. altering program design.
• B. evaluating constructs.
• C. asking and answering questions.
• D. analyzing pilot feedback.
Sending a personally addressed letter advertising a
new weight loss program is an example of:
• A. tailoring.
• B. targeting.
• C. marketing.
• D. mass mailing.
Adolescents are often influenced by their
peers when making health decisions.
According to the Theory of Planned Behavior,
which construct describes this phenomena?
• A. Attitudes
• B. Perceived Behavioral Control
• C. Intention
• D. Subjective Norm
A person is making a plan to quit smoking in the
next month. This person would be in which stage
of the Stages of Change?
• A. Preparation
• B. Pre-contemplation
• C. Action
• D. Contemplation
When a health education specialist exchanges
information, alters activities, shares resources and
enhances capacity to achieve a common purpose,
he or she is:
• A. cooperating.
• B. coordinating.
• C. networking.
• D. collaborating.
To understand the three human subjects
protection guidelines of respect for persons,
beneficence, and justice, one would look to the:
• A. CHNEO Code of Ethics.
• B. Informed consent process.
• C. Belmont Report
• D. Geneva Convention Treaty.
National surveillance data, hospital discharge
data, and insurance claims are all appropriate
forms of which type of data:
• A. secondary
• B. input
• C. descriptive
• D. primary
Ongoing monitoring and assessment of program
development and implementation is:
• A. impact evaluation.
• B. formative evaluation.
• C. quantitative evaluation.
• D. summative evaluation.
Participants in a health education program are
asked to state the number of times they have
been arrested. At which level of measurement is
this data?
• A. Nominal
• B. Ordinal
• C. Interval
• D. Rato
Checking to see if an instrument is measuring
concepts consistently is measuring its:
• A. reliability.
• B. utility.
• C. outcomes.
• D. internal bias.
Which of the following statements indicates a
positive relationship between variables X and Y?
• A. As the value of X increases, the value of X decreases.
• B. As the value of Y increases, the value of X decreases.
• C. As the value of X increases, the value of Y remains unchanged.
• D. as the value of X decreases, the value of Y decreases.
The process of managing the constant change that
affects almost any organization is best reflected by
conducting:
• A. a focus group.
• B. an evaluation.
• C. an assessment.
• D. a strategic planning session.
In terms of organizational culture, a shared vision
and sense of belonging are part of which of the
following?
• A. Organizational climate
• B. Values
• C. Cultural norms
• D. Organizational support
Which of the following is a situational analysis
tool?
• A. PRECEDE
• B. SWOT
• C. MATCH
• D. CDCynergy
Administering strategies, interventions, and
programs relates to improvement of factors:
• A. within an organization/environment.
• B. within and outside the organization/environment.
• C. outside of the organization/environment.
• D. relative to the process, impact, and outcome of the
organization/environment.
The health education specialist working in a foreign
country is working cross-culturally. One of the most
important keys to culturally competent health
promotion and understanding different health
beliefs/practices is the health education specialist’s
understanding of that population’s:
• A. food choices.
• B. value system.
• C. style of dress.
• D. health department organizational structure.
Which of the following is most essential for health
education specialists when creating material that
addresses participants with low health literacy?
• A. Present a lot of information to assist in learning
• B. Have a behavioral action
• C. Use simple terms
• D. Use a few headings
When searching for information for a client about
the social issues surrounding child abuse and
neglect, which is the best database to use?
• A. HEDIR
• B. Psychic
• C. ERIC
• D. Index Medicus
The specific helping relationship created when a
health education specialist assists an organization,
but does not ultimately make direct changes is
referred to as:
• A. advisory.
• B. adversarial.
• C. technical.
• D. consultative.
Which Web site extension for the sample domain
name is most likely to contain valid information?
• A. Nutrition.com
• B. Nutrition.epi
• C. Nutrition.usa
• D. Nutrition.gov
The American Heart Association has created a
pamphlet outlining heart disease death rates
among Americans over the age of 40. This is an
example of:
• A. primary data source.
• B. tertiary data source.
• C. secondary data source.
• D. qualitative data source.
The health education specialist wishes to raise public
awareness of an important health issue using such tools
as a press release, Letter to the Editor, and interactive
Web 2.0 resources. Awareness strategies using these
tools would be considered:
• A. media advocacy.
• B. policy advocacy.
• C. legislative advocacy.
• D. public practice advocacy.
Your advocacy efforts are starting to be successful in a
town that has historically been pro-tobacco. The city
council has voted 4-1 to hold a town meeting to discuss
a clean air ordinance. Which type of advocacy
benchmark is this?
• A. Community or individual behavior
• B. Shifts in critical mass
• C. Changing definitions/reframing
• D. Institutional policy
The three key domains of evidence-based
health policy include:
• A. process, content, outcomes.
• B. process, impact, outcome.
• C. formative, summative, impact.
• D. impact, surveillance, outputs.
The most recent 18-month project to validate the
contemporary practice of entry-level and
advanced-level health education specialists was
the:
• A. Competency Update Project (CUP)
• B. Health Educator Job Analysis (HEJA)
• C. 2006 Revised Framework
• D. National Commission on Certifying Agencies
A health department wishes to create educational print
materials for community members with language
disorders and low literacy levels. Which of the following
is most effective in determining the reading level of
those written materials?
• A. Crisp Readability Formula
• B. FLASH
• C. SMOG
• D. Log-Gunning Index