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Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1:

Which of the following best describes the goal of integrative medicine?
a) Working towards a health care model that combines complementary and alternative medicines with biomedical practices
b) Conformity to biomedicine and neglecting a holistic approach to health
c) Training biomedical health care practitioners in complementary and alternative medicines
d) Incorporating some aspects of biomedicine into complementary and alternative medical practices

Question 2:

Based on the classification of complementary and alternative medicine used by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, what kind of therapeutic intervention is osteopathy?
a) Alternative medical system
b) Mind–body intervention
c) Biologically based therapy
d) Manipulative and body–based method

Question 3:

Which of the following is a type of complementary and alternative medicine that presumes that forces beyond the material universe influence health and disease?
a) Mind–body therapies
b) Body–energy therapies
c) Body–spirit therapies
d) The body paradigm

Question 4:

Which of the following fields of complementary and alternative medicine is considered to be an alternative medical system?
a) Massage
b) Naturopathy
c) Chiropractic
d) Reiki

Question 5:

Yoga can be classifies as which category of complementary and alternative medicine?
a) Bod
b) Body–mind
c) Body–energy
d) Exercise

Question 6:

Which of the following is false regarding a holistic approach to healing?
a) It is more important to identify and treat the symptoms of illness.
b) Disease is the result of an imbalance between physical, mental, social, and spiritual dimensions of self.
c) Practitioners facilitate the body’s own healing.
d) The relationship between practitioner and client acts as a catalyst for healing.

Question 7:

Methods of healing that rely on the concept of vitalism may include which of the following practices?
a) Prayer
b) Religious ceremonies
c) Herbal supplements
d) Both a and b

Question 8:

Which of the following is not true of the typical user of complementary and alternative medicine?
a) Middle-aged
b) Male
c) Affluent
d) Well educated

Question 9:

Which of the following is NOT a common reason a person may be pushed towards seeking complementary and alternative medicine?
a) Displeased with medical encounters
b) Unhappy with the doctor–patient relationship
c) Dissatisfied with conventional medicine
d) Unable to afford conventional medicine

Question 10:

Which of the following is NOT true of the postmodern view on health and healing?
a) Disillusionment with conventional medicine
b) Problems with the doctor–patient relationship
c) Increasing belief in scientific authority
d) A consumerist attitude

True or False Questions

Question 11:

The majority of Canadians use one or more complementary and alternative medicines.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

The definition of alternative forms of healing has been static throughout history.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

Healing practices that cannot or will not demonstrate scientific evidence in support of their treatments tend to be marginalized.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

Practitioners of complementary and alternative medicine often take a reductionist approach.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

Perceived effectiveness of treatment can have more to do with individual beliefs than with the treatment itself.
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

The relationship between dominant Western approaches to medicine and complementary and alternative medicines has evolved over time.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

Through the process of professionalization, many healing practitioners were forced to make compromises in the types of care delivered.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

Many physicians adopt complementary and alternatives therapies in their practice.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

People with chronic illness are unlikely to seek out complementary and alternative medicine to aid in their treatment.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

People who choose complementary and alternative medicine over convention biomedical treatments are often labeled as deviant.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Health and Society: Chapter 11

Multiple Choice Questions

True or False Questions