The Health Educator Is Teaching a Class on the Consequences

question 26

Multiple Choice

The health educator is teaching a class on the consequences of neglecting to take high blood pressure medication. Which construct of the health belief model is the educator using in relating the story of a person who did not take his/her medication and now has permanent kidney damage?

• A) Perceived susceptibility
• B) Perceived severity
• C) Cue to action
• D) Self-efficacy

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Definitions:

Interval

A range between two numbers or points, often used to specify the precision of an estimate or the coverage of a dataset.

Kruskal-Wallis Test

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Chi-Squared Distribution

A statistical distribution that is used to describe the distribution of a sum of the squares of k independent standard normal variables, commonly used in hypothesis testing.

Chi-Squared Distributed

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