Evidence-based Care: Social and Spiritual

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1. The purpose of evidence-based care is to improve the quality and ____ of social and spiritual care.
  a. use
  b. effectiveness
  c. availabiity
  d. scope
2. "What is the purpose of the caring process?" is part of the ___.
  a. introduction
  b. treatment
  c. mission
  d. diagnosis
3. "How is the target population described?" is dealt in the ___.
  a. mission
  b. treatment
  c. diagnosis
  d. records
4. Loss of Faith, Loss of Life-meaning, Non-attendance, Grief, Spiritual Distress are ___ problems.
  a. social
  b. spiritual
  c. general
  d. common
5. Interviewing, Counseling, Connecting, Working, Studying, Praying are ___ treatments.
  a. individual
  b. group
  c. mass
  d. personal
6. The literature of evidence-based ____, social work, and education provides a rich background for those engaged in evidence-based care.
  a. technology
  b. medicine
  c. construction
  d. government
7. Outcomes research seeks to understand the end results of particular health care practices and interventions. End results include effects that people experience and care about, such as change in the ability to ____.
  a. sleep
  b. write
  c. function
  d. listen
8. For clinicians and patients, outcomes research provides ____ about benefits, risks, and results of treatments so they can make more informed decisions.
  a. information
  b. guidance
  c. literature
  d. evidence
9. Historically, clinicians have relied primarily on traditional biomedical measures, such as the results of ____, to determine whether a health intervention is necessary and whether it is successful. Researchers have discovered, however, that when they use only these measures, they miss many of the outcomes that matter most to patients.
  a. examinations
  b. laboratory tests
  c. interviews
  d. an examination of vital signs
10. Rate the body of evidence for quantity, consistency, and ___ to disease risk reduction in the general population or target subgroup.
  a. relevance
  b. currentness
  c. scope
  d. relationship
11. A population can be defined by _______.
  a. age
  b. sex
  c. race
  d. all 3
12. Risk factors increase the risk of substance abuse, and ____ factors inhibit substance abuse in the presence of risk. Risk factors can be grouped in domains for research purposes (genetic, biological, social, psychological, contextual, economic, and cultural) and characterized as to their relevance to individuals, the family, peer, school, workplace, and community
  a. anti-risk
  b. protective
  c. healing
  d. positive