Health Promoting Behaviors

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Test Your Health Knowledge

Take this engaging quiz to explore your understanding of health-promoting behaviors! Challenge yourself with questions that cover various aspects of health, habits, and behaviors.

Perfect for students, educators, and anyone interested in improving their health knowledge. Key topics include:

Health habits versus health behaviors
Health locus of control
Substance use in adolescence
Preventive health practices

15 Questions4 MinutesCreated by HealthyMind202

Whats the difference between a health habit and a health behavior

Habits are behaviors done automatically

Habit is a healthy behavior

Habits are results of good behaviors

Health behavior is formed from habits

What is the health locus of control

When habits start to control your life

The idea that yourself or a health professional has control over your health

A theory that establishes knowing what you can control

When you give the doctor control over your health

What's the reason why adolescence lack concern over health harming effects like smoking and drinking?

Doing those activities hurt them more in the future than the present

Peer Pressure

Social Influence

Knowing that they can always fix their health later in life

During what time frame is a teachable moment used to LEARN positive habits?

Early adolescence

Early Childhood

Adulthood

Late Childhood

A man's family has a background of coronary heart disease, what habit should he get rid of to reduce the risk of himself getting it from the future?

If he is an adult it is already too late to prevent this disease

Eat Healthier

Exercise on a more daily basis

Quit smoking as that is the number 1 cause for coronary heart disease

What type of appeal message would be best used for a health behavior that only needs to be done once to prevent a disease?

Fear appeal

Positive framed message

Extrinsic motivation

Promotion Oriented messages

In order for an individual to believe they can overcome a habit they need____?

Good self efficacy

A good doctor

Medication

Good genetics

The idea that people can control their own actions, emotions and thoughts is ___?

Self efficacy

Self Determination Theory

Self-regulation

Self-affirmation

Lets say you have a smoking problem and lack belief you can every get rid of it. What technique could be used to change that belief?

Change in medication.

Change in daily routines

Quitting cold turkey

Cognitive Restructuring saying fraises like "I can do this" and "I'll be so much healthier"

What is a good example of positive reinforcement?

Going to the bar after a week away from cigerettes

Watching a movie after a full week of eating healthy

Taking a day off from the gym after exercising a full month

Deleting a nutrition app after you have successfully lost 20 pounds

What techique is used to keep track if an individual is correclty fixing their behavior

Start doing self-monitoring

Cognitive Restructuring

Motivation Interviewing

Self-regulation

You have a friend who is an avid smoker and is wary about making a change, where should you send him too?

Motivation Interview

A rehab facility

Social group

Relaxation training

What are the reasons for people relapsing?

Lacking self-monitoring

Positive reinforcement

Lack of cognitive restructuring

Putting yourself in a place where you used to do the unhealthy behavior

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