Which best describes why community health education programs are important?

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: Health education is designed to predispose, enable, and reinforce voluntary behavior conducive to health. Health education is unable to prevent disease from occurring, and it is not the most cost-effective way to improve health.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: The HBM is a value expectancy theory that addresses factors that promote health-enhancing behavior. The HBM considers perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, and other sociopsychological and structural variables. Self-efficacy, defined as the notion that an individual can act successfully on a given behavior to produce the desired outcome, was later added to the HBM.

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: Banking education where teachers give information, which learners then regurgitate at examination time, is not useful. Problem-solving education with active participation and ongoing dialogue encourages learners to be critical and reflective about health issues.

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: The goal of participatory action research is social change. The strategies reached collectively by the involved stakeholders lead to changes within the group and the community. Participatory action research does not produce analytical epidemiological findings, descriptive research studies, or experimental studies.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: Unfortunately, voicing the need for valuing diversity is not always consistent with behavior. It is often useful to change communication patterns to increase client comfort, although the nurse must sometimes refuse to fulfill client demands. However, it is always crucial to exhibit sensitivity to individual concerns, cultural background, or previous life experiences.