Chapter 31: Public mental health: prevention and promotion

1. Van Os et al. (2009) conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of the psychosis continuum. What was the median prevalence of people in the general population who experience psychotic symptoms?

  1. 1%
  2. 5%
  3. 23%
  4. 15%

Answer: B

2. Who said that poverty ‘is the deprivation of opportunity’?

  1. Department for Health
  2. Corey Keyes
  3. Amartya Sen
  4. David Thoreau

Answer: C

3. Which of these issues was raised in the 2009 and 2012 North West Mental Wellbeing Survey?

  1. Feeling unsafe outside your home
  2. Decreased sense of belonging to community
  3. Living in a city
  4. All of the above

Answer: D

4. Which specific diagnoses did Faris and Dunham (1939) find to be more prevalent in the densely populated, disorganised inner city regions of Chicago?

  1. Depression and anxiety
  2. Bipolar disorder and personality disorder
  3. Depression and drug addiction
  4. Schizophrenia and drug addiction

Answer: D

5. Which type of locus of control is associated with depression, anxiety and paranoia?

  1. External locus of control
  2. Internal locus of control
  3. Both
  4. Neither

Answer: A

6. What % below the median does your household income need to be in order for you to be deemed in poverty?

  1. 50%
  2. 60%
  3. 70%
  4. 80%

Answer: A

7. What is the term given to humans’ instinctual need to affiliate with nature?

  1. Urban penalty effect
  2. Gentrification
  3. Biophilia
  4. Botany

Answer: C