Course Introduction
Community Nutrition Practice Exam
Community Nutrition focuses on the role of nutrition in promoting health and preventing disease within diverse population groups. The course emphasizes the assessment of nutritional needs at the community level, the planning and evaluation of nutrition programs and policies, and effective strategies for improving dietary behaviors among various populations. Students will explore social, cultural, economic, and environmental factors that impact community nutrition, and learn to design interventions tailored to specific communities. The course also covers the importance of advocacy and collaboration among public health professionals, policy makers, and community stakeholders to address nutritional challenges and disparities.
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Nutritional Assessment 6th Edition by Robert D Lee Dr
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Nutritional Assessment
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Q1) In the Nutrition Care Process, the nutrition intervention should target etiology of the problems identified in the medical diagnosis.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The term __________ has been coined to identify what many epidemiologists consider to be a global epidemic of obesity.
Answer: Globesity
Q3) The activities necessary to provide timely information about the contributions of food and nutrient consumption and nutritional status to the health of a population group or nation are known as __________.
Answer: Nutrition monitoring
Q4) Which of the following is at the center of the Nutrition Care Process Model?
A) the dietitian's strengths and abilities
B) the four steps of the Nutrition Care Process
C) environmental factors impacting the patient's ability to benefit from the Nutrition Care Process
D) the relationship between the dietitian and the patient
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Standards for Nutrient Intake
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Q1) A food's vitamin and mineral content relative to its energy content is known as
Answer: Nutrient Density
Q2) Which one of the following statements about early, observational dietary standards and guidelines is False?
A) A catalyst for their development was starvation & associated diseases resulting from economic dislocation & unemployment.
B) They addressed ways of providing nutrition at the lowest cost.
C) They were developed from calorimetry and nitrogen balance studies on humans.
D) They assumed that observed intake equaled physiologic need.
Answer: C
Q3) In contrast to editions prior to 2005, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans are now less technical in nature and are primarily targeted to the general public.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Measuring Diet
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Q1) If a subject's reported usual energy intake is < 1.2 times his or her calculated resting energy expenditure, it is likely that the subject has
A) under reported energy intake
B) over reported energy intake
C) reported energy intake with reasonable accuracy
Answer: A
Q2) A food eaten but not reported in a 24-hour recall is known as a A) shortfall food
B) missing food
C) phantom food
Answer: B
Q3) The advantage of using doubly labeled water to measure energy expenditure is that it is ideally suited for use in free-living subjects.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) The ability of an instrument to actually measure what it is intended to measure is known as __________.
Answer: Validity
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Chapter 4: National Dietary and Nutrition Surveys
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Q1) "Health: United States," published annually by the National Center for Health Statistics, is an example of the type of publication mandated by the National Nutritional Monitoring and Related Research Program, which requires timely dissemination of data on the dietary, nutritional, and health related status of the U.S. population.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey is a continuous, on-going survey conducted annually.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Unless adjusted for losses, food availability data tend to _________ actual food and nutrient consumption.
A) overestimate
B) fairly accurately represent
C) underestimate
Q4) In the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, anthropometric measurements and physical examinations are performed by trained staff members in specially designed and equipped __________ examination centers.
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Chapter 5: Computerized Dietary Analysis Systems
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Q1) Although the USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference provides values on more than 140 nutrients and food components for more than 7900 foods, relatively few recipes and name brand foods are found in the database.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The system developed by W. O. Atwater to calculate the energy contributed by protein, fat, and carbohydrates in foods is known as the __________ system.
Q3) If a computerized dietary analysis system has a database with a large amount of incomplete data or many blanks in the database, the system's output may understate a client's actual nutrient intake. In such cases, reported low nutrient intakes represent a __________ deficiency, not necessarily an actual deficiency in the client's diet.
Q4) An effort on the part of the United Nations to improve data on the nutrient composition of foods from all parts of the world is known by the acronym
A) AOAC
B) BHNRC
C) FSIS
D) INFOODS
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Chapter 6: Anthropometry
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Q1) Opposition to an alternating current is known as __________.
Q2) Which of the following assumptions has the greatest potential for being a significant source of error in estimating body composition from skinfold measurements?
A) the compressibility of a double thickness of skin and subcutaneous tissue is constant
B) the thickness of skin is a negligible or constant fraction of the skinfold
C) the fat content of adipose tissue is constant
D) the proportion of internal fat to external fat is constant
Q3) A graphic device with several vertical scales allowing the calculation of certain values when a straightedge is connected between two of the scales and the desired value is read from a third scale is known as a/an __________.
Q4) If a stadiometer is not available to measure height, a non-stretchable tape measure securely fastened to a flat, vertical surface such as a wall is an appropriate approach to measuring height.
A)True
B)False
Q5) When an infant is lying on its back in order to have its length measured, it is said to be in the __________ position.
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Chapter 7: Assessment of the Hospitalized Patient
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Q1) A patient is admitted to a hospital ward with a current body weight of 53 kg. The patient reports that his usual weight is 65 kg. What is the patient's percent weight change?
A) 9%
B) 13%
C) 18%
D) 21%
Q2) Which one of the following is the preferred approach for determining energy expenditure in free-living research subjects?
A) the Harris-Benedict equations
B) closed circuit calorimetry
C) using a computerized metabolic cart
D) doubly labeled water
Q3) A computerized metabolic monitor or cart is an example of indirect calorimetry.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A nutrition screening instrument developed by the Malnutrition Advisory Group of the British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition is known as the __________.
Q5) A patient who cannot walk or who is bed-ridden is said to be __________.
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Chapter 8: Nutritional Assessment in Disease Prevention
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Q1) Diastole refers to the phase of cardiac relaxation.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When classifying blood pressure in the pediatric population, the same cut-points are used as when classifying the blood pressure of adults.
A)True
B)False
Q3) __________ of the calcaneus is used as a screening method to identify persons who are at increased risk of osteoporosis and are candidates for further evaluation of bone mineral density using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry.
Q4) Which of the following is not a clinical determinant of the metabolic syndrome?
A) high-risk waist circumference
B) elevated serum triglyceride level
C) elevated serum HDL-C level
D) elevated plasma glucose level
Q5) Because cholesterol and triglycerides are fat soluble, they must be transported in the blood by spherical macromolecular complexes known as __________.
Q6) Diabetes that develops during pregnancy is known as __________.
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Chapter 9: Biochemical Assessment of Nutritional Status
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Q1) Which one of the following tests is the most sensitive indicator of iron status after iron stores are depleted but before anemia develops?
A) hematocrit
B) hemoglobin
C) serum ferritin
D) soluble transferrin receptor
Q2) The classic sign of iodine deficiency is thyroid gland enlargement which is referred to as __________.
Q3) According to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which one of the following groups is at greatest risk of vitamin D deficiency?
A) Mexican Americans
B) Non-Hispanic Blacks
C) Non-Hispanic Whites
Q4) A "False positive" would occur when a person with an adequate iron status has a hemoglobin level less than the age/sex-appropriate cutpoint for diagnosing anemia.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Severe iodine deficiency in utero can result in a condition known as __________.
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Chapter 10: Clinical Assessment of Nutritional Status
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Q1) Lipodystrophy can include both lipohypertrophy and lipoatrophy.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Profound physical wasting and malnutrition usually associated with chronic disease and advanced acquired immune deficiency syndrome is known as __________.
Q3) Which one of the following is a type of lipodystrophy sometimes seen in patients with Cushing's syndrome?
A) moon face
B) old man's face
C) flag sign
D) stomatitis
Q4) Dental erosion is most likely to be seen in a patient with A) anorexia nervosa
B) bulimia nervosa
C) eating disorder not otherwise specified
Q5) A clinical technique for assessing the nutritional status of a patient based on features of the patient's history and physical examination is known as __________.
Q6) Kwashiorkor and marasmus are two forms of __________.
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Chapter 11: Counseling Theory and Technique
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Q1) When educating or counseling a client, restating the affective or emotional part of the client's words is known as
A) clarification
B) paraphrasing
C) probing
D) reflection
Q2) The resumption of an unwanted habit or behavior that one has, for a period of time, overcome or turned from is known as a __________.
Q3) Questions that allow the counselor to control answers and to ask for specific information are known as __________ questions.
A) closed
B) leading
C) neutral
D) open
Q4) When several people hear the same person talking, they all receive the same message.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The process of sending and receiving messages is known as __________.
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