Pre-Assessment
5. Taking
Directions: Read each statement below carefully. Place a check on the line
if you think a statement is a fact. Place a X on the line if you think the
statement is a myth.
1. All non-communicable diseases (NCDs) cannot be prevented- they
always run in families.
2. Anemia means you have low blood pressure.
3. Non communicable diseases mainly affect elderly.
4. Eating gecko or lizard may cure asthma.
a bath on Friday will not make one sick.
6. Relapse
or "binat caused by eating certain kinds of food or by
cutting the hair too soon after the illness is best treated by
fumigating the patient with smoke produced by burning the
offending food or the hair.
7. A pregnant woman's cravings will affect the baby's appearance.
8. “No one in my family has diabetes, so I won't get the disease."
9. Lung cancer only affects smokers.
10. Allergies can persists even after childhood.
11. Cancer is a disease of the rich, and affluent people.
12. Both young and old people can get arthritis.
13. Eating heavy meal right before sleeping is theorized to cause
"bangungot."
14. Sleeping with wet hair causes blindness.
15. Washing sweaty, tired hands can lead to spasmodic hands or
pasma.
Answer:
1.X
2.X
3.X
4.X
5.X
6.X
7.X
8.X
9.X
10.✓
11.X
12.✓
13.✓
14.X
15.X
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