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Psychiatric/Mental Health Objective Questions With Answers

Psychiatric/Mental Health Objective Questions With Answers

1. Which of the following will suggest to the nurse that a patient is experiencing auditory hallucinations?
a. brushing his skin continuously
b. gets up suddenly and stands at attention
c. repeats a sentence over and over again
d. sings a song as he walks down the hall

2. One aim of recreational therapy for psychiatric patients is to:
a. assists the patient in socialization and communication
b. gives the patient the belief that he can do everything
c. enable patient to generate money on his own.
d. mobilize forces to guide patient towards his goal in life

3. When managing a patient going through grand mal seizure you should:
a. allow the fit to go through its normal process
b. inserts a mouth gag at the tonic phase
c. restrict the movement of the limbs
d. turns the head of the patient to one side during the clonic phase

4. When a patient on admission refuses food the nurse should:
a. finds out the reason
b. inform patient’s daughter
c. leaves him alone until he is hungry
d. passes NG tube and feed him through it

5. When a patient has a grand mal seizure, which one of the following tasks has the highest priority?
a. administer oxygen
b. check blood pressure and pulse
c. establish patent airway
d. removes the top sheet

6. An epileptic tells the nurse that he smells roses, yet there are no flowers in the
room. This statement should alert the nurse to the possibility that the patient:
a. is experiencing an aura
b. is hallucinating
c. may be imagining he smells roses
d. wishes to have some roses

7. Clinical manifestations of heroin withdrawal include:
a. confusion, slurred speech, itching
b. decrease pulse rate, urticaria, abdominal cramps
c. lethargy, yawning, running nose
d. itching, edema of lips, hypotension

8. A patient is depressed and withdrawn and has been in bed all day. At meal time
the nurse should:
a. ask where she prefers to eat her meals
b. explain to her that she will feel better eating with others
c. sends the food to her room
d. takes her to the dining room and sit with her to eat

9. Immediate observation of patient on admission includes
i. Psychological testing
ii. Motor behavior
iii. General appearance
iv. Speech
a. i and ii
b. i, ii and iii
c. ii, iii and iv
d. i, ii, iii and iv

10. The side effects associated with chlorpromazine include:
a. anorexia, bradycardia, constipation
b. fatigue, drowsiness, dry mouth
c. nausea, vomiting, diarrhea
d. urinary retention, dry mouth, hypotension

11. Huntington’s chorea can be prevented by means of:
a. broad spectrum antibiotics
b. genetic counseling
c. hormone therapy
d. radiotherapy

12. Which of the following is an open-ended question?
a. do you need anything from the doctor?
b. how do you feel today?
c. how is your dressing and the pain?
d. have you been getting visitors?

13. The primary goal for community psychiatric nursing is:
a. helps families to cope
b. prevent crippling effects of established illness
c. reduce the duration of mental illness
d. reduce the risk of mental illness

14. Dementia may be caused by:
a. alcohol
b. cocaine
c. marijuana
d. scurvy

15. The type of schizophrenia characterized by extreme social withdrawal and deteriorated behavior is:
a. catatonia
b. hebephrenic
c. paranoid
d. undifferentiated

16. The defense mechanisms commonly associated with addiction include:
a. denial, rationalization, displacement
b. displacement, sublimation, reaction formation
c. rationalization, projection, denial
d. regression, rationalization, sublimation

17. For the patient to develop trust in the nurse, the nurse should:
a. be consistent and reliable in her actions
b. call patient by name all the time
c. monitor patient carefully
d. tries to gain control over patient’s actions

18. A patient displaying manic behavior will exhibit which of the under mentioned:
a. euphoria, accelerated speech, insomnia
b. compulsion, panic, regressive behavior
c. insomnia, confabulations, mannerisms
d. hypochondriasis, hostility, insomnia

19. The related dangers associated with cocaine abuse include:
a. dizziness, fever, depression
b. headache, fatigue, gastric problems
c. panic reaction, apathy, impaired judgment
d. impaired judgment, depression, and headache

20. Which of the following statements determines psychological abuse?
a. hitting the patient
b. humiliating the patient
c. withholding care from the patient
d. violation of patient’s rights

21. Personnel changes increase emotional disturbance in patients. The basic reason for this is that patients often feel:
a. angry
b. disappointed
c. frustrated
d. insecure

22. When talking to a psychiatric patient for the first time, the nurse should realize that the:
a. patient’s case history should be read and discussed with the doctor
b. physical appearance provides accurate guide as to whether he will be receptive
c. patient is a stranger to the nurse and vice-versa
d. hostile behavior indicates that the nurse’s initial approach is inadequate

23. Which of the following BEST describes the appearance of panic state?
a. anger, poverty of ideas, withdrawal
b. abnormal eye blinking, anger, flashbacks
c. palpitations, pressure on the chest, heartburns
d. nightmares, flashbacks, anger

24. Paranoid personality disorder is characterized by:
a. antisocial behavior
b. instability of affect
c. history of mistrust of others
d. procrastination and inefficiency

25. The nurse explains to a student on educational tour in the hospital that psychotic people are those who:
a. adjust poorly to new situations
b. cannot differentiate reality from fantasy
c. feels helpless in resolving problems
d. has difficulty in relationships

26. A patient asks a nurse if he hears the voice of Jesus talking about destroying het world. The best response from the nurse would be:
a. “Better not tell t doctor about it”
b. “Does he say when or how it will happen”
c. “I doubt Jesus could be talking to you”
d. “No, hearing voices is part of the illness”

27. Which of the following professions will you counsel an epileptic patient to take?
a. catering
b. engineering
c. teaching
d. theatre nursing

Psychiatric/Mental Health Objective Questions With Answers

Psychiatric/Mental Health Objective Questions With Answers
Psychiatric/Mental Health Objective Questions With Answers

28. Which of the following will indicate that the patient can make suicidal attempt?
a. asking nurses to give him a knife
b. hiding knives or storing drugs
c. holding a knife and shouting that “I want to kill myself”
d. telling the nurses “I want to kill myself”

29. Which of the following activities can be taken as methods of rehabilitation in a hospital?
a. gate keeping, church attendance, bed making
b. kitchen chores, bed making, scrubbing
c. kitchen chores, gate keeping, scrubbing
d. scrubbing, bed making, habit trainings

30. Which of these is used to cover up for memory impairment?
a. amnesia
b. déjà vu phenomenon
c. confabulation
d. thought block

31. Which of the following statements BEST describe an individual with cyclothymic personality?
a. mood changes, alternating between elation and depression
b. tendency to have autistic thinking
c. tendency to be perplexed with ideas of reference
d. suspiciousness, jealousy, stubbornness

32. Dementia is best defined as which of the following?
a. loss of intellectual abilities sufficient to hamper activities of daily living
b. personal neglect in self care
c. poor judgment especially in social relationships
d. memory loss occurring as a natural consequence of aging

33. The purpose of screening candidates for group therapy is to determine:
a. intelligence
b. friendliness
c. motivation
d. sociability

34. A distinguishing feature of antisocial personality disorder is:
a. attention to detail and order
b. bizarre mannerism and thoughts
c. disregard for social and legal norms
d. submissive dependent behavior

35. A person with sociopathic behavior makes advances toward you. An appropriate
comment would be “stop that”
a. or I put you in seclusion
b. or I tell the doctor
c. you can’t do this here
d. you are making me uncomfortable

36. When girl child experiences sexual feelings for the father, Freud describes it as:
a. Electra complex
b. Nymphomaniac
c. complex Oedipus
d. Temper tantrums

37. For the treatment of chronic alcoholism to be effective the:
a. Doctor must be firm with the patient
b. Family must agree and give their full support
c. Patient must understand and agree fully to the treatment
d. Patient’s reason for drinking must be explored

38. Catatonic schizophrenia is characterized by:
a. Auditory hallucinations
b. disorganized behavior and incoherence
c. marked psychomotor disturbances
d. systematized delusion

39. Which of the following factors has contributed to a rise in depression among the
elderly?
a. faltering self esteem
b. inability to use appropriate aid in walking
c. loss of effective support systems
d. struggle to cope with trauma

40. The symptom which characterizes paranoid in its true form is:
a. bizarre hallucination
b. affect inappropriate
c. severe depression
d. systematized delusion

Psychiatric/Mental Health Objective Questions With Answers
Psychiatric/Mental Health Objective Questions With Answers

41. Numbness of a part of the body is a typical sign associated with:
a. Leprosy
b. Meningitis
c. Tetanus
d. Yaws

42. Surveillance of diseases should be done:
a. Annually
b. Continuously
c. Intermittently
d. Quarterly

41. A middle-aged patient was brought to the hospital in stuporous conditions with loss of power in all four limbs. Waxy flexibility of muscle tone in the limbs was detected. The most likely diagnosis is:
a) Hysterical stupor
b) Organic stupor
c) Catatonic stupor
d) Depressive stupor

 

42. Oedipus complex (given by Sigmund Freud) is seen in:
a) Boys of 1 -3 years of age
b) Girls of 1 -3 years of age
c) Boys of 3-5 years of age
d) Girls of 3-5 years of age

43. The term “Ambivalence” was coined by:
a) Hippocrates
b) Eugen Bleuler
c) Kraeplin
d) Sigmund Freud

 

44. Which of the following is a dissociative phenomenon
a) Fugue
b)Amnesia
c) Deafness
d) Lack of insight

 

45. Which is most specific of psychosis
a) Pressure of speech
b) Neologism
c) Incoherence
d) Preservation

 

46. Lesion in autistic disorder is in
a) Corpus collosum
b) Frontal lobe
c) Temporal lobe
d) Cerebellum

 

47. Basanti age 27 years, female thinks her nose is ugly, her idea is fixed not shared by anyone else. Whenever she goes out of home, she hides her face with a cloth. She visits to surgeon. Next step would be
a) Investigate and then operate
b) Refer to psychiatrist
c) Reassure the patient
d) Immediate operation

 

48. Irresistible urge to move about and increased motor activity is
a) Rabbits syndrome
b) Malignant neuroleptic syndrome
c) Akathasia
d) Tardive dyskinesia

 

49. Which is in first rank symptom described by Scheidner?
a) Echolalia
b)Thought insertion
c) Autism
d) Suicidal tendency

Psychiatric/Mental Health Objective Questions With Answers

Psychiatric/Mental Health Objective Questions With Answers
Psychiatric/Mental Health Objective Questions With Answers

50. The characteristic symptom of Hyperkinetic syndrome is
a) Reduced attention span
b) Mental retardation
c) Extreme shyness
d) Truancy

 

51. Disturbances of affect include all except
a) Panic
b) Apathy
c) Phobia
d) Obsession

 

52. A false belief unexplained by reality, shared by a number of people is:
a) Superstition
b) Illusion
c) Delusion
d) Obsession
Answer: a

53. Which of the following is a center for recent memory:
a) Parietal cortex
b) Temporal lobe
c) Hippocampus
d) Thalamus and sub thalamus
Answer: c

54. Sleep deprivation leads to:
a) Psychotic behavior
b) Decreased mental alertness
c) Emotional disturbances
d) Anxiety neurosis
Answer: b

55. A person who is a chronic alcoholic is brought to the casualty. When asked he says that he is drinking because of the quarrels with his wife. The defence mechanism is
a) Denial
b) Rationalization
c) Sublimation
d) Projection
Answer: b

56. Fugue state may be seen in:
a) Schizophrenia
b) Hysteria
c) Epilepsy
d) All of the above
Answer: d

57. Mature defence mechanism is seen in
a) Altruism
b) Repression
c) Regression
d) None
Answer: a

58.The following are psychotic disorders except
a) Schizophrenia
b) Mania
c) Psychotic depression
d) Hysteria
Answer: d

59. A person quarrels and hits his neighbor. The next day starts feeling that he is being followed by police and that they may arrest him. He also feels that his neighbors are controlling him by radio waves. Diagnosis is
a)Delusion of persecution
b) Schizophrenia
c) Passivity
d) Thought insertion
Answer: b

60. Mental retardation implies
a) Depression of brain
b) Intellectual deficiency
c) Suspicious behavior
d) Emotional disorder
Answer: b

Psychiatric/Mental Health Objective Questions With Answers
Psychiatric/Mental Health Objective Questions With Answers

61. Major psychosis is
a) Neurosis
b) Dementia
c) Reactive depression
d) Endogenous depression
Answer: d

62. All are true about hyper kinetic child except
a) Poor impulse control
b) Increase in the anger outburst
c) Right to left disorientation
d) Decrease in attention span
Answer: c

63. A person missing from home, found wandering purposefully, well groomed, has some degree of amnesia
a) Dissociative fugue
b) Dissociative amnesia
c) Schizophrenia
d) Dementia
Answer: a

64. Delirium and schizophrenia differ from each other by:
a) Change in mood
b) Complete consciousness
c) Tangential thinking
d) All
Answer: b

65. Concept of super ego was given by:
a)EricFromm
b) Sigmund Freud
c) Eric Erikson
d) Carl Jung
Answer: b

66. The following are psychosomatic disorders except
a) Hypertension
b) Pepticulcer
c) Cirrhosis of liver
d) Asthma
Answer: c

67. Confabulation means
a) Conversation with imaginary person
b) Misinterpretation of stimulus
c) Perception in the absence of stimuli
d) Making stories to IIII up gaps in memory loss
Answer: d

68. Which category is most prone for suicide
a) Adolescent girl
b) Old man
c) Unemployed youth
d) Married woman
Answer: a

69. One of the following is used to test
a) Eyesenck personality
b) Ink blot test
c)Sentence completion
d) Binet Stanford test
Answer: d

70. Fugue’ state occurs in
a) Head injury
b) Depression
c) Hysteria
d) Mania
Answer: c

Psychiatric/Mental Health Objective Questions With Answers

Psychiatric/Mental Health Objective Questions With Answers
Psychiatric/Mental Health Objective Questions With Answers

71. AH the following are defense mechanisms of ego except
a) Projection
b)Conversion
c) Reaction formation
d) Transference
Answer: d

72.Characteristic feature of psychosis is
a) Mood disturbance
b) Suicidal tendency
c) Autistic tendency
d) Acceptance of other persons delusion
Answer: d

73. The commonest mental illnesses in children are:
a) Mental retardation
b) Infantileautism
c) Enuresis
d) Neuroses
Answer: d

74. Oedipus complex has been described by:
a) Plato
b) Socrates
c) Freud
d) Huxley
Answer: c

75. Preoccupation with body diseases is seen in
a) Obsession
b) Somatisation
c) Hypochondriasis
d) Conversion disorder
Answer: c

76. The most common psychiatric disorder is
a) Depression
b) Dementia
c) Schizophrenia
d) Paranoia
Answer: a

77. Mental retardation implies
a) Depression of brain
b) Intellectual deficiency
c) Suspicious behavior
d) Emotional disorder
Answer: b

78. The classic psychosomatic illness include all of the following except
a) Essential hypertension
b) Rheumatoid arthritis
c) Hyperventilation
d) Bronchial asthma
Answer: b

79. 22 year old Babu had a fight with his neighbor’s son. Next day, while going to the bus stop, he felt that 2 uniformed policemen were following him. On reaching home he was frightened and he felt that the neighbors were using radio waves to control his mind. What is his symptom
a) Delusion of persecution
b) Passivity
c) Auditory hallucination
d) Thought insertion
Answer: c

80. Delusion is
a) A feeling of loss of sensation
b) Not able to get proper answer
c) A false belief
d) An uncomfortable sensation
Answer: c

Psychiatric/Mental Health Objective Questions With Answers
Psychiatric/Mental Health Objective Questions With Answers

81. Which does not cause dementia?
a) Multiple infarction
b) Huntington’s chorea
c) Alzheimer’s disease
d) Schizophrenia
Answer: d

82. Illusion with loss of consciousness is seen in
a) MDP
b) Delirium
c) Schizophrenia
d) Anxiety Neurosis
Answer: b

83. Dementia is produced by deficiency of vitamin:
a) A
b) D
c) Pyridoxine
d) Niacin
Answer: d

84. Persistent belief in something which is not a fact is
a) Illusion
b) Hallucination
c) Delusion
d) Delirium
Answer: c

85. All are features of Dementia except
a) Impaired memory
b) Loss of judgment
c) Impaired consciousness
d) Loss of learned function
Answer: c

86. The most common cause of organic amnestic syndrome is:
a) Alzheimer’s disease
b) Concussion
c) Hypoxia
d) Vitamin deficiency
Answer: b

87. Biochemical etiology of Alzheimer’s disease relates it to:
a) Acetylcholine
b)GABA
c) Serotonin
d) Dopamine
Answer: a

88. Dementia is seen in all except:
a) Head injury
b) Alzheimer’s
c) chizophrenia
d) Huntington’s chorea
Answer: c

89. Dissociation is seen in
a) Schizophrenia
b) Mania
c) Hysterical conversion
d) Organic brain syndrome
Answer: c

90. 22 year old Mahesh had fight with his neighbor’s son. Next day, while going to the bus stop, he felt that 2 uniformed policeman were following him. On reaching home in the evening,he was frightened. He felt that the neighbors were using radio waves to control his mind.What is his symptom?
a) Passivity
b) Delusion of persecution
c) Auditory hallucination
d) Thought insertion
Answer: b

91. Sub cortical dementia is
a) Memory
b) Dyslexia
c) Tactile Agnosia
d) Receptive Aphasia
Answer: c

Psychiatric/Mental Health Objective Questions With Answers

Psychiatric/Mental Health Objective Questions With Answers
Psychiatric/Mental Health Objective Questions With Answers

92. A 68 year old man complaining of hearing voices from the upper floor using abusive language believes that somebody is trying to take away his property. He also does unusual things as wearing his vest over his shirt. He could be suffering from
a) Schizophrenia
b) Dementia
c) Delusion
d) Hysteria
Answer: c

93. Tick the proper answer among the answer provided. Hallucination is a
a) Thinking disorder
b) Disorder of perception
c) Disorder of motor behavior
d) Disorder of consciousness
Answer: a

94. Reversible cause of dementia
a) Post encephalitis
b) Multi infarct
c) Hydrocephalus
d) Senile dementia
Answer: a

95. Following are predispositions to Alzheimer’s disease except
a) Down’s syndrome
b) Head trauma
c) Smoking
d) Low education group
Answer: c

96. In the absence of auditory hallucination, visual or tactile hallucinations are in favour of one
the following conditions
a) Conversion disorder
b) Panic disorder
c) Manic disorder
d) Organic brain syndrome
Answer: d

97. Delusions are found in all of the following disorders except
a) Schizophrenia
b) Psychotic depression
c) Mania
d) Personality disorder
Answer: d

98. False perception without any external stimulus is
a) Hallucination
b) Delusion
c) Illusion
d) Mania
Answer: a

99. Delusion is not seen in
a) Depression
b) Anxiety
c) Schizophrenia
d) Mania
Answer: b

100. Subcortical dementia is seen in all except
a) Parkinsonism
b) Alzheimer’s disease
c) Wilson’s disease
d) Huntington’s Chorea
Answer: b

 

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