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10 free, exam-style Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) practice questions with answers and explanations. No signup required. Work through them below, then take the full free CHES practice test to study every exam domain.

Question 1

A celebrity spokesperson promotes a health product in a television advertisement. According to the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM), viewers who are persuaded by the celebrity's attractiveness rather than the product's evidence are processing through:

  1. The central route
  2. The peripheral route
  3. The direct route
  4. The cognitive route
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Correct answer: B - The peripheral route

Question 2

A man knows that heart disease is the leading cause of death but does not believe it could happen to him because he feels healthy. According to the Health Belief Model, which construct needs to be addressed?

  1. Perceived barriers to preventive care
  2. Perceived benefits of healthy lifestyle
  3. Perceived susceptibility
  4. Cues to action from healthcare providers
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Correct answer: C - Perceived susceptibility

Question 3

A health education specialist designs a campaign to increase fruit consumption among teens. Free fruit is offered at school vending machines (place), the campaign highlights better energy and appearance (product/benefits), and social media is used (promotion). Which 'P' is addressed by making the fruit free?

  1. Product (the fruit being offered)
  2. Place (the vending machine location)
  3. Promotion (the marketing strategy)
  4. Price (the cost consideration)
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Correct answer: D - Price (the cost consideration)

Question 4

A health education specialist identifies that community members have knowledge about healthy eating but lack affordable grocery options. The knowledge is a _______ factor, and the lack of grocery options is a _______ factor.

  1. Reinforcing; predisposing
  2. Enabling; reinforcing
  3. Predisposing; enabling
  4. Administrative; environmental
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Correct answer: C - Predisposing; enabling

Question 5

Participants in a smoking cessation program showed improvement, but a statewide anti-tobacco media campaign launched during the same period. This is an example of which threat to internal validity?

  1. Maturation
  2. Testing
  3. History
  4. Attrition
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Correct answer: C - History

Question 6

The PRIMARY difference between advocacy and lobbying is:

  1. Advocacy is always illegal; lobbying is always legal
  2. Advocacy is broader; lobbying targets specific legislation
  3. Lobbying is broader than advocacy
  4. There is no meaningful difference between advocacy and lobbying
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Correct answer: B - Advocacy is broader; lobbying targets specific legislation

Question 7

A person who watches a peer successfully manage their diabetes and then feels more confident about managing their own diabetes is experiencing:

  1. Mastery experience through observation
  2. Vicarious experience
  3. Verbal persuasion from peers
  4. Social reinforcement learning
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Correct answer: B - Vicarious experience

Question 8

Cultural humility differs from cultural competence in that cultural humility:

  1. Is a fixed endpoint that can be fully achieved
  2. Emphasizes ongoing self-reflection and lifelong learning
  3. Requires mastering knowledge about every culture
  4. Is less important than cultural competence
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Correct answer: B - Emphasizes ongoing self-reflection and lifelong learning

Question 9

The PRIMARY difference between health equity and health equality is:

  1. They mean the same thing
  2. Equity focuses on individual needs; equality focuses on sameness
  3. Equality focuses on needs; equity focuses on sameness
  4. Equity applies only to healthcare; equality applies to all sectors
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Correct answer: B - Equity focuses on individual needs; equality focuses on sameness

Question 10

A health education specialist is offered a paid consultancy by a pharmaceutical company to promote their product during health education sessions. Accepting this offer would MOST likely violate:

  1. Article I (responsibility to the public) and Article II (conflict of interest)
  2. Article IV (professional competence) and Article V (continuing education)
  3. Article III (employer obligations) and Article VI (professional preparation)
  4. Article V (continuing education) and Article VII (research standards)
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Correct answer: A - Article I (responsibility to the public) and Article II (conflict of interest)

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