Quiz 3: High risk and vulnerable people
Please choose the one, most correct answer to each question or statement.
- Which age group has a higher risk of developing a common mental health condition?
- Young children
- Older children
- Young adults
- When do mental health conditions often occur in pregnant women?
- When the pregnancy is planned
- When the woman is exposed to violence and abuse
- When she is told that her baby is a boy
- What is the ‘baby blues’?
- The mother feeling sad and down in the first two weeks after delivery
- A sign that the baby is cold
- Clothes worn by a male baby
- How do maternal mental health conditions affect the infant?
- Depressed mothers eat too much during pregnancy so they have very fat babies
- Anxious mothers often have babies who get jaundiced
- Babies may be neglected by depressed mothers
- Why do babies need love and kindness?
- To grow and develop normally
- To sleep well so that their mother can get some rest
- So that they do not gain too much weight and get fat
- What is a sign of poor mental health in an infant?
- Repeated fits (convulsions)
- Not making eye contact
- Yawning and sneezing
- Why do adolescents have a higher risk of mental health conditions?
- Because they read too much
- Because they are ignored by adults
- Because their brains are changing and developing rapidly
- Why may adolescents be more likely to abuse harmful substances?
- Because they have the money to buy them
- Because they like to take risks to impress their friends
- Because they spend too much time watching TV or playing on their mobile phones
- How can mental health be promoted in the elderly?
- Keep them physically active
- Do not let them mix with too many people
- Keep them on a low protein diet
- Why may care workers develop mental health conditions?
- Because they put the needs of others before their own needs
- Because they are usually old
- Because they are not paid enough