PRITE REVISION STUDY MULTIPLE
CHOICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
2019/2020 SERIES.
Which of the following is a characteristic if assertive community
treatment (ACT) for the treatment of the severely mentally ill?
A Primarily office-based care
B 24-hour-a-day mental healthcare coverage
C Use of day hospital at least three days a week
D Indirect involvement in admissions and discharges by the ACT team
E Integration of primary care through a federally qualified health centers
Verified Answer -B
A 22-year-old man with myotic dystrophy undergoes evaluation for
routine monitoring. Which of the following diagnostic tests would best
detect the most common cardiac complication of this condition?
A Angiogram
B Echocardiogram
C Electrocardiogram
D Magnetic resonance imaging
E Single photon emission computed tomography
Verified Answer -C
Which of the following interventions, if employed by a hospital system,
would most optimally protect against electronic medical record data
breaches?
,A Use a virtual local area network
B Switch from local to cloud based computing
C Create a policy for periodic software upgrades
D Train employees on how to recognize potential threats
E Hire information technology experts who specialize in cybersecurity
Verified Answer -D
A patient with multiple sclerosis is participating in a study to evaluate a
novel MS treatment. During a study visit, the research coordinator
requests that the patient's spouse participate in the study as a healthy
control. If the spouse agrees to participate in the study, which of the
following features of informed consent is potentially being violated?
A Autonomy
B Voluntarism
C Confidentiality
D Decisional capacity
E Information provision
Verified Answer -B
Which of the following terms describes the relevance of understanding
temperament in working with parent-child relational problems?
A Goodness of fit
B Slow to warm up
C Social referencing
D Intensity of reaction
E Affective attunement
Verified Answer -A
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Verified Answer -
The cortical synaptic remodeling characteristic of normal adolescence is
also believed to be associated with which of the following neurobiological
changes?
A Increased brain glucose metabolism
B Increased overall electroencephalograph amplitude
C Predominant synaptic changes in the temporal cortex
D Preferential loss of excitatory synapses
E Loss of cortical volume in the parietal cortex
Verified Answer -D
A 70-year-old patient with depression presents with confusion two weeks
following initiation of fluoxetine and an adverse effect from the drug is
expected. Neurological exam is normal. Which of the following
evaluations would be most useful to confirm this suspicion?
A CT of the head
B Electrocardiogram
C Creatinine phosphokinase
D urea and electrolytes
E Hepatic panel
Verified Answer -D
Shortly after a five-year-old child enters kindergarden, the child's parents
report to the pediatrician that their child seems more emotionally reactive
at home, displaying some regressive behavior and being more demanding
, of parental attention. The child's teacher describes no behavioral or
academic concerns. Which of the following factors most likely accounts
for the change noted by the parents?
A Modeling of immature behavior by peers
B An unrecognized learning disability in the child
C The effects of poor parent-school communication
D Incipient symptoms of separation anxiety disorder in the child
E Normative response to stress associated with school transition
Verified Answer -E
In an individual with persistent pain, which of the following
neurotransmitter receptors is downregulated in the ventral striatum?
A Cortisol
B Serotonin
C Dopamine
D Substance P
E Norepinephrine
Verified Answer -C
Which of the following peptides is released in the GI tract to convey
satiety information to the brain in response to food intake?
A Leptin
B Insulin
C Orexin
D Ghrelin
E Cholecystokinin
Verified Answer -E
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