1. Which statement is false regarding illness reporting?

1. Hypochondriacs over-report their illnesses and spend more time seeking medical attention
2. People exhibiting meaningful symptoms often don’t go to the doctor for reasons including laziness or avoidance coping
3. Over-reporting of symptoms is common among neurotic individuals
4. There are ethnic differences in terms of illness reporting – some cultural groups are less likely to report illnesses than others
5. Neurotic individuals are least likely to see their physician owing to their avoidance coping

2. Which of these is not a common reason for patients to avoid emergency room visits?

1. Avoiding coping with disease
2. Not wanting to be a nuisance
3. Emergency rooms are loud and uncomfortable
4. Fear of finding out that they are actually sick
5. Laziness

3. In relation to the common sense model of illness, how well symptoms come together and link to an illness condition is:

1. Cure or control
2. Cause
3. Consequence
4. Identity
5. *Coherence

4. In relation to the common sense model of illness, a patient’s perception of the illness and its symptoms is:

1. Cure or control
2. Cause
3. Consequence
4. Identity
5. Coherence

5. A common side effect of self-blame is:

1. Happiness and relief
2. Depression and guilt
3. Depression and relief
4. Anger and depression
5. Anger and avoidance

6. Tools like the IPQ are important because:

1. They allow the appraisal of illnesses to be objectively assessed
2. They allow health providers to minimize the time spent with patients and maximize the number of patients seen
3. They allow patients to communicate subjective feelings with their health providers
4. They allow patients to keep their minds busy while they wait for their health providers
5. They allow patients the opportunity to express their feelings regarding an illness

7. What is a main factor influencing a patient’s perception of their physician's competence?

1. Their medical knowledge is all that matters
2. Their niceness
3. Their ability to translate medical terminology into layman’s terms
4. Their confidence
5. Their physical appearance

8. If a patient senses their doctor is not taking their concerns seriously, the treatments may:

1. Be significantly more effective
2. Be slightly more effective
3. Be less effective
4. Be ineffective
5. How the patient feels in relation to their doctor actually has no impact on treatment efficacy

9. What is not generally regarded as a side effect of involving the patient in the treatment decision-making?

1. Increases the patient’s sense of control
2. Greater care satisfaction
3. Greater improvements sensed by patients
4. Decreases the patient’s feeling of being a victim
5. *Increases the likelihood of patients taking responsibility for the treatment outcome

10. A silent misdiagnosis occurs as a result of:

1. Physicians not understanding or appreciating what their patients tell them
2. Physicians being cavalier regarding diagnosis
3. Patients attempting to communicate with their physicians using poor methods
4. Physicians not speaking the same language as their patients
5. Physicians not being up to date in their medical knowledge