Mental Health and Community Health Questions and Answers

Mental Health and Community Health MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions and Answers)

Question 1: Which are intimately related?

(A) Disease and health

(B) Body and health

(C) Body and mind

(D) Body and spiritual values

Answer: (C)

Question 2: The percentage of population suffering from serious mental illness is

(A) 1%

(B) 5%

(C) 8%

(D) 10%

Answer: (A)

Question 3: The percentage of population suffering from mild mental disorders is

(A) 1%

(B) 5%

(C) 8%

(D) 10%

Answer: (D)

Question 4: People suffering from mental diseases in India number

(A) 1 – 1.5 million

(B) 6 – 7 million

(C) 10 – 15 million

(D) 60 – 70 million

Answer: (B)

Question 5: Signs of mental illness are

(A) Abnormal changes in thinking, perception and judgement

(B) Abnormal changes in feeling and memory

(C) Both A and B

(D) Abnormal changes in behaviour towards others

Answer: (C)

Question 6: Psychosis is characterised by

(A) Loss of touch with reality

(B) Prolonged emotional reaction to a given stress

(C) Anxiety, fear, sadness, vague aches and pains

(D) All the above

Answer: (A)

Question 7: Neurosis is characterised by

(A) Madness

(B) Prolonged emotional reaction to a given stress

(C) Pain in the head

(D) Fits of convulsions

Answer: (B)

Question 8: In epilepsy, the patient undergoes

(A) Periods of sadness and happiness, fear and valour

(B) Fits of convulsions

(C) Loss of consciousness

(D) Both B and C

Answer: (D)

Question 9: Which one is not involved in mental illness

(A) Hereditary factors

(B) Childhood experiences

(C) Changes in brain

(D) Rheumatic fever

Answer: (D)

Question 10: Proneness to mental illness is

(A) Extra affection to a child

(B) Quarrelsome family

(C) Poverty and lack of opportunities

(D) Heredity

Answer: (D)

Question 11: A child would develop mental illness if one does not get

(A) Affection

(B) Encouragement

(C) Guidance and discipline

(D) All the above

Answer: (D)

Question 12: Social therapy of mental illness is required for

(A) Treatment of psychosis

(B) Maintenance of community health

(C) Rehabilitation of mentally ill persons

(D) Prevention of addiction

Answer: (C)

Question 13: Which is mental disease?

(A) Tetanus

(B) Neurosis

(C) Drug dependence

(D) Alcoholism

Answer: (B)

Question 14: Which is not a mental disorder?

(A) Gout

(B) Epilepsy

(C) Neurosis

(D) Psychosis

Answer: (A)

Question 15: Mental health is a state of development of one’s

(A) Personality

(B) Emotional attitude

(C) Both A and B

(D) Intellect

Answer: (C)

Question 16: A mentally healthy individual has

(A) Independent personality

(B) Comfortable placing in social hierarchy

(C) A purposeful life

(D) All the above

Answer: (D)

Question 17: A mentally sick person has

(A) Tendency to get upset with change of routine

(B) Feeling of friendship and trust for all

(C) Tendency to perform all the daily chores by oneself

(D) Tendency to solve all the problems without aid of others

Answer: (A)

Question 18: A person is mentally sick if one is

(A) Worried

(B) With moods fluctuating between depression and elation

(C) Excessively happy

(D) Extra talkative

Answer: (B)

Question 19: Trembling, depression, fear and phobia are signs of

(A) Epilepsy

(B) Parkinson’s disease

(C) Mental sickness

(D) Alzheimer’s disease

Answer: (C)

Question 20: Type of mental illness where the patient is aware of the problem and seeks remedy

(A) Neurosis

(B) Psychosis

(C) Schizophrenia

(D) Huntington’s disease

Answer: (A)

Question 21: Which one is a mental disability?

(A) Psychosis

(B) Neurosis

(C) Schizophrenia

(D) Epilepsy

Answer: (D)

Question 22: In epilepsy, seizure is

(A) Warming cry

(B) Fit of convulsions

(C) Loss of consciousness

(D) All the above.

Answer: (C)

Question 23: Paralysis agitans is

(A) Epilepsy

(B) Parkinson’s disease

(C) Poliomyelitis

(D) Alzheimer’s disease

Answer: (B)

Question 24: Dopamine secretion is reduced in case of

(A) Epilepsy

(B) Parkinson’s disease

(C) Schizophrenia

(D) All the above

Answer: (B)

Question 25: Parkinson’s disease is characterised by

(A) Fixity of facial expression

(B) Rhythmic tremor of limbs

(C) Stooped posture

(D) All the above

Answer: (D)

Question 26: Melanin and lewy bodies occur in the neurons in case of

(A) Huntington’s chorea

(B) Alzheimer’s disease

(C) Paralysis agitans

(D) All the above

Answer: (C)

Question 27: Loss of choline acetyltransferase occurs in

(A) Schizophrenia

(B) Huntington’s disease

(C) Parkinson’s disease

(D) Alzheimer’s disease

Answer: (D)

Question 28: In Huntington’s chorea, limb movements are

(A) Rhythmic

(B) Arrhythmic

(C) Slow and hardly noticeable

(D) Absent

Answer: (B)

Question 29: Huntington’s disease is

(A) Autosomal dominant disease

(B) Autosomal recessive disorder

(C) Sex-linked recessive disorder

(D) Sex-linked dominant disease

Answer: (A)

Question 30: Dancing gait and bizarre grimacing is characteristic of

(A) Schizophrenia

(B) I{Huntington’s disease

(C) Alzheimer’s disease

(D) Paralysis agitans

Answer: (B)

Question 31: ECT is

(A) Electroconvulsive therapy

(B) Electrochemical treatment

(C) Electrochemical therapy

(D) Epileptic core treatment

Answer: (A)

Question 32: Psychoanalysis was founded by

(A) Jenner

(B) Parkinson

(C) Freud

(D) Hansen

Answer: (C)

Question 33: Sedatives and tranquillisers are often given for treating

(A) Epilepsy

(B) Psychosis

(C) Diffusion

(D) Anxiety

Answer: (D)

Question 34: Cynophobia is fear

(A) Cats

(B) Dogs

(C) Mice

(D) Darkness

Answer: (B)

Question 35: Community health aims

(A) Care of the infants old

(B) Care of infirms

(C) Improvement of health of all

(D) Improvement of health of children

Answer: (C)

Question 36: A thrust area in community health is

(A) Prevention and control of communicable diseases

(B) Prevention of blindness

(C) Maternal and child health

(D) School health services

Answer: (B)

Question 37: Global Immunisation Programme was started in

(A) May 1974

(B) May 1984

(C) August 1985

(D) May 1963

Answer: (A)

Question 38: Universal Immunisation Programme was started in India in

(A) 1974

(B) 1963

(C) 1984

(D) 1985

Answer: (D)

Question 39: Which is injected intra-dermally?

(A) Polio vaccine

(B) DPT

(C) BCG

(D) Both B and C

Answer: (C)

Question 40: When is DT (bivalent vaccine) given?

(A) 9 – 15 months

(B) 18 – 24 months

(C) 5 – 6 years

(D) 10 years

Answer: (C)

Question 41: Headquarter of World Health Organisation (WHO) is located at

(A) New York

(B) Geneva

(C) London

(D) Paris

Answer: (B)

Question 42: Huntington’s chorea is

(A) Common in Korea

(B) Nervous degeneration causing involuntary shaking of legs, arms and head

(C) Disease of kidney

(D) Related to diabetes

Answer: (B)

Question 43: Pulse polio programme is organised in our country for

(A) Curing polio

(B) Eradicating polio

(C) Spreading polio

(D) None of the above

Answer: (B)

Question 44: Irrational fear of disease is

(A) Algophobia

(B) Mysophobia

(C) Pathophobia

(D) Haematophobia

Answer: (C)

Question 45: Community health service includes

(A) School and health education

(B) Hygienic environment

(C) Control of communicable diseases

(D) All the above

Answer: (D)

Question 46: BCG vaccine is against

(A) Measles

(B) T.B.

(C) Cholera

(D) Small Pox

Answer: (B)

Question 47: Parkinsonism is due to defective neurotransmitter in brain

(A) Serotonin

(B) Noradrenaline

(C) Dopamine

(D) Eucalphia

Answer: (C)

Question 48: Community health aims at

(A) Better health and family planning

(B) Better hygiene and clean environment

(C) Removing communicable diseases

(D) All the above

Answer: (D)

Question 49: A disease sometimes found in persons above 40 which is characterised by poor CNS coordination, forgetfulness and tremor of hands is

(A) Epilepsy

(B) Alzheimer’s disease

(C) Migraine

(D) Schizophrenia

Answer: (B)

Question 50: Parkinson’s disease (characterised by the tremors and progressive rigidity of limbs) is caused by degeneration of brain neurons that are involved in movement control and make use of neurotransmitters

(A) Acetylcholine

(B) Norepinephrine

(C) Dopamine

(D) GABA

Answer: (C)