Marks Coronary Heart Disease Test Questions & Answers Ch.21 - Essentials of Nursing Critically Ill Adults Questions by David F. Marks. DOCX document preview.
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Chapter 21: Coronary heart disease
1. What cardiovascular disease does this excerpt describe? ______ occurs when one of the coronary arteries becomes blocked by a blood clot and part of the heart is starved of oxygen. It usually causes severe chest pain.
a. Rheumatic heart disease
b. Cardiomyopathy
c. Myocardial infarction (MI)
d. Aortic aneurisms
2. What type of angina occurs with lesser degrees of exertion or while at rest?
a. Stable
b. Unstable
c. Severe
d. Mild
3. What is the most common form of CHD, with ten million people in the USA and two million in the UK suffering from it?
a. Heart attack
b. Heart failure
c. Angina
d. Stroke
4. Kivimäki and Siegrist (2016) found that that individuals ______ appear to be at an increased risk of stroke.
a. with effort reward imbalance
b. long working hours
c. job insecurity
d. all of these
5. ______ can be scored and used as a predictor of psychological adjustment.
a. Cognitive adaption
b. Cognitive resilience
c. Behavioural adaption
d. Behavioural resilience
6. Many studies have found that anger and hostility, as components of the Type ______ pattern, are associated with the incidence of CHD in both older and younger people.
a. A
b. B
c. C
d. D
7. Whitehead et al. (2005) found that intense distress and fear of dying was reported by ______ of the patients and moderate fear and distress by ______ of the patients.
a. 51.6%; 21.7%
b. very few; almost all
c. 21.7%; 51.6%
d. almost all; very few
8. Moser and Dracup (2004) found ______.
a. that patients had the same level of perceived control as the spouses
b. that patients had a higher level of perceived control than did the spouses
c. that patients had a lower level of perceived control than did the spouses
d. no difference in levels of perceived control between patients and spouses
9. 'Cardiac rehab' involves ______.
a. exercise training and education on heart-healthy living
b. operations, medication and rest
c. counselling to reduce stress
d. both exercise training and education on heart-healthy living and counselling to reduce stress
10. The challenge of delivering interventions that are effective and cost-efficient can be met using ______.
a. a combination of hospital interventions and GP visits
b. community interventions
c. a combination of professional, lay and web-based provision
d. online social support groups
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