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This section includes 657 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Testing Subject knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Comprehensive emergency obstetric care does not include - |
| A. | Hysterectomy |
| B. | Manual removal of placenta |
| C. | Ceasarean section |
| D. | Blood transfussion |
| Answer» B. Manual removal of placenta | |
| 2. |
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)initiative was taken to prevent morbidity and mortality from all of the following except: |
| A. | Otitis Media |
| B. | Neonatal tetanus |
| C. | Malaria |
| D. | Malnutrition |
| Answer» C. Malaria | |
| 3. |
Active search for disease is an apparently healthy individual is k/a - |
| A. | Case finding |
| B. | Monitoring |
| C. | Sentineal survellance |
| D. | Screening |
| Answer» E. | |
| 4. |
Human immunoglobulin is given in all except |
| A. | Rabies |
| B. | Hepatitis B |
| C. | Measles |
| D. | Chickenpox |
| Answer» D. Chickenpox | |
| 5. |
If correlation between weight and heights are very strong what will be the correlation coefficient- |
| A. | Positive 1 |
| B. | Greater than 1 |
| C. | Zero |
| D. | Negative 1 |
| Answer» B. Greater than 1 | |
| 6. |
A patient of paucibacillary tuberculoid leprosy completed 6 months of multidrug therapy.The response to therapy is good but the lesion is not healed completely.According to the WHO criteria,which of the following should be done? |
| A. | Stop the treatment and watch |
| B. | Continue the treatment for 6 more months |
| C. | Continue Dapsone for 2 months |
| D. | Test for drug resistance |
| Answer» B. Continue the treatment for 6 more months | |
| 7. |
Safe disposal of mercury is : |
| A. | Treatment with chemicals |
| B. | Deep burial |
| C. | Collect carefully and recycle |
| D. | Controlled combustion |
| Answer» D. Controlled combustion | |
| 8. |
Vaccine with maximam efficacy is- |
| A. | Measles |
| B. | OPV |
| C. | TT |
| D. | BCG |
| Answer» B. OPV | |
| 9. |
Physical quality of life index is measured by all except: |
| A. | Latency |
| B. | Per capita income |
| C. | Infant mortality |
| D. | Life expectancy at age one |
| Answer» C. Infant mortality | |
| 10. |
True about measles are all except |
| A. | Secondary attack rate is 30% |
| B. | Fever occurs after 7-10 days of infection |
| C. | Immunity develops after 7 days of vaccination |
| D. | Single dose of vaccine gives 95% protection |
| Answer» B. Fever occurs after 7-10 days of infection | |
| 11. |
Culex tritaenorrhyncus transmits |
| A. | Dengue fever |
| B. | Yellow fever |
| C. | KFD |
| D. | Japanese encephalitis |
| Answer» E. | |
| 12. |
Chemoprophylaxis for meningococcal meningitis: |
| A. | Ampicillin |
| B. | Tetracycline |
| C. | Rifampicin |
| D. | Erythromycin |
| Answer» D. Erythromycin | |
| 13. |
The probability of being born with condition A is 0.10 and the probability of being born with condition B is 0.50.If condition A and B are independent,what is probability of being born with either condition A or condition B(or both)? |
| A. | 0.5 |
| B. | 0.55 |
| C. | 0.4 |
| D. | 0.05 |
| Answer» C. 0.4 | |
| 14. |
Incidence rates can be calculated by |
| A. | Cohort study |
| B. | Case control study |
| C. | Cross over study |
| D. | Cross-sectional study |
| Answer» B. Case control study | |
| 15. |
Vaccination against diseases is an example of: |
| A. | Health promotion |
| B. | Specific protection |
| C. | Disability limitation |
| D. | Primordial prevention |
| Answer» C. Disability limitation | |
| 16. |
Incidence is defined as: |
| A. | Number of old cases present |
| B. | Number of cases existing in a given |
| C. | Number of new cases occuring during a specified period |
| D. | Number of cases existing in a given population at a given moment period |
| Answer» D. Number of cases existing in a given population at a given moment period | |
| 17. |
True about Indian Reference Male is - |
| A. | Age 18-29 years |
| B. | Weight 65 kg |
| C. | Work in mainly sedentary |
| D. | Works for 10 hours |
| Answer» B. Weight 65 kg | |
| 18. |
Both active and passive immunisation is given in all, EXCEPT - |
| A. | Tetanus |
| B. | Rabies |
| C. | Measles |
| D. | HBV |
| Answer» D. HBV | |
| 19. |
Feces is best disinfected by- |
| A. | H2O2 |
| B. | Lime |
| C. | Cholorine releasing compound |
| D. | Phenol |
| Answer» D. Phenol | |
| 20. |
Bias can be eliminated by all except: |
| A. | Randomization |
| B. | Multivariate analysis |
| C. | Matching |
| D. | Blinding |
| Answer» C. Matching | |
| 21. |
Virulance of a disease is indicated by: |
| A. | Specific mortality rate |
| B. | Proportional mortality rate |
| C. | Amount of GDP spent on the disease |
| D. | Case fatality ratio |
| Answer» E. | |
| 22. |
Which of the following statement regarding dengue is correct: |
| A. | Cused by 3 serotypes of dengue virus |
| B. | It is epidemic in India |
| C. | Aspirin is used for treatment |
| D. | Clinical course of dengue is more fulminant in children than adults |
| Answer» C. Aspirin is used for treatment | |
| 23. |
Which of the following is true regarding Berkesonian bias: |
| A. | Error in sampling |
| B. | Systematic differences in characteristic between cases and control |
| C. | Different rates of admission in hospital |
| D. | Cases and controls are asked questions about their past history |
| Answer» D. Cases and controls are asked questions about their past history | |
| 24. |
You have diagnosed a patient clinically as having SLE and ordered 6 tests.Out of which 4 test have come positive and 2 are negative.To determine the probability of SLE at this point, you need to know - |
| A. | Incidence and prevalence of SLE |
| B. | Relative risk of SLE in this patient |
| C. | Prior probability of SLE; sensitivity and specificity of each test |
| D. | Incidence of SLE and predictive value of each test |
| Answer» D. Incidence of SLE and predictive value of each test | |
| 25. |
All of the following are acceptable criteria for water quality except: |
| A. | Nitrates of 1 mg/L |
| B. | Dissloved O2 of 5 mg/L |
| C. | Free and saline NH3 of 0.05 mg/L |
| D. | Nitrates of 1-2 mg/L |
| Answer» E. | |
| 26. |
Most recent classification according to WHO for disability. |
| A. | International Classifcation of Functioning,Disability and Health's |
| B. | STEPS |
| C. | WHO DAIS |
| D. | DALY |
| Answer» B. STEPS | |
| 27. |
In PNDT act 1994, PNDT stands for ? |
| A. | Postnatal diagnostic techniques |
| B. | Prenatal diagnostic techniques |
| C. | Prenatal diagnostic test |
| D. | Postnatal diagnostic test |
| Answer» C. Prenatal diagnostic test | |
| 28. |
Additional daily energy requirement for a lactating woman with a two month old child will be |
| A. | 450 calories |
| B. | 550 calories |
| C. | 650 calories |
| D. | 750 calories |
| Answer» C. 650 calories | |
| 29. |
Quarantine is related to - |
| A. | Minimum incubation period |
| B. | Maximum incubation period |
| C. | Serial interval |
| D. | Generation time |
| Answer» C. Serial interval | |
| 30. |
Standard error of mean indicates- |
| A. | Dispersion |
| B. | Distribution |
| C. | Variation |
| D. | Deviation |
| Answer» C. Variation | |
| 31. |
What is false about Japanese encephalitis - |
| A. | Pigs manifest disease |
| B. | Seen in Karnataka |
| C. | Man is incidental host |
| D. | Extra human reservoir is known |
| Answer» B. Seen in Karnataka | |
| 32. |
Direct standardization used to compare the mortality rates between two countries.This is done because of the difference in - |
| A. | Numerators |
| B. | Causes of death |
| C. | Denominators |
| D. | Age distributions |
| Answer» E. | |
| 33. |
Janani suraksha yojana includes ? |
| A. | Tetanus immunization |
| B. | Institutional devliveries |
| C. | Iron supplementation |
| D. | Abortions |
| Answer» C. Iron supplementation | |
| 34. |
Drugs A and B are both used for treating a particular skin infection.After one standard application,Drug A eradicates the infection in 95% of both adults and children.Drug B eradicates the infection in 47% of adults and 90% of children.There are otherwise no significant pharmacological differences between the two drugs,and there are no significant side effects.However,the cost of Drug A is twice that of Drug B. Dr. Ram, a general practitioner,always uses drug B for the first treatment,and resorts to Drug A if the infection persists. Dr.Yogesh, another general practitioner,always uses Drug A for adults and drug B for children.Ignoring indirect costs,Which of the following statement is incorrect: |
| A. | Drug A is more cost- effective than drug B for treating children |
| B. | Drug A is more effective than B for treating children |
| C. | Dr.Yogesh's regime achieves a higher level of cost-effectiveness than Dr.Ram's |
| D. | Drug A is more cost- effective than drug B for treating adults |
| Answer» B. Drug A is more effective than B for treating children | |
| 35. |
The national health policy is based on |
| A. | Comprehensive health care |
| B. | Subsidized health care |
| C. | Socialized medicine |
| D. | Equitable distribution of health resources |
| Answer» B. Subsidized health care | |
| 36. |
Minimum microbiological criteria for water quality includes |
| A. | All samples should be free of coliforms |
| B. | Not more than 5% samples should have any coliform |
| C. | Any 100 ml should not have more than 3 E. coli |
| D. | Coliforms should not be detectable in 3 consecutive samples of 100 ml of water |
| Answer» B. Not more than 5% samples should have any coliform | |
| 37. |
Orthotoludine test van detect ? |
| A. | Free residual chlorine |
| B. | Bound chlorine |
| C. | Free and combined chlorine |
| D. | Chlorine demand |
| Answer» D. Chlorine demand | |
| 38. |
Vitamin A prophylaxis is an example of |
| A. | Health promotion |
| B. | Primordial prevention |
| C. | Disability limitation |
| D. | Specific protection |
| Answer» E. | |
| 39. |
Tip of iceberg phenomenon is mostly appropriately represented by: |
| A. | Malaria |
| B. | Measles |
| C. | PEM |
| D. | Rabies |
| Answer» D. Rabies | |
| 40. |
Milk transmits all except: |
| A. | Q fever |
| B. | Typhoid fever |
| C. | Brucellosis |
| D. | Endemic typhus |
| Answer» E. | |
| 41. |
A study was conducted to test if use of herbal tea played any role in prevention of common cold.Data was collected on the number of people who developed cold and those who did not develop cold and this data was tabulated in relation to whether they consumed Herbal tea or not.The analytical test of choice to test this study is: |
| A. | Student - t test (Unpaired) |
| B. | Student - t test (Paired) |
| C. | Chi square test |
| D. | Z' test |
| Answer» D. Z' test | |
| 42. |
Disinfection action of chlorine is due to ? |
| A. | Hypochlorous acid |
| B. | Hypochlorite ion |
| C. | Hydrochloric acid |
| D. | Both Hypochlorous acid and Hypochlorite ion |
| Answer» E. | |
| 43. |
Mg2ion is used as an stabilizer in |
| A. | OPV |
| B. | DPT |
| C. | BCG |
| D. | Measles |
| Answer» B. DPT | |
| 44. |
In order to prevent damage to hearing, th limit of daily noise exposure should NOT exceed - |
| A. | 65 dB |
| B. | 85 dB |
| C. | 105 dB |
| D. | 125 dB |
| Answer» C. 105 dB | |
| 45. |
Z score criteria applicable to: |
| A. | Normal distribution |
| B. | Skewed deviation |
| C. | Chi-square test |
| D. | Paired 't' test |
| Answer» B. Skewed deviation | |
| 46. |
While calculating the incubation period for measles in a group of 25 children,the standard deviation is 2 and the mean incubation period is 8 days.Calculate the standard error- |
| A. | 0.4 |
| B. | 1 |
| C. | 2 |
| D. | 0.5 |
| Answer» B. 1 | |
| 47. |
Minimum requirement of potable water is all, except - |
| A. | 95% of sample should not contain any coliform organisms in 100 ml |
| B. | No sample shpuld contain E coli in 100 ml |
| C. | No sample shpuld contain more than 3 coliform organisms per 100 ml |
| D. | Coliform organism may (1 to 2) or may not be detectable in 100ml of any two consecutive sample |
| Answer» D. Coliform organism may (1 to 2) or may not be detectable in 100ml of any two consecutive sample | |
| 48. |
Hypothesis is not tested by ? |
| A. | Descriptive studies |
| B. | Analytical studies |
| C. | Case control studies |
| D. | Cohort studies |
| Answer» B. Analytical studies | |
| 49. |
For Mantoux test the standard dose of tuberculine used in India is: |
| A. | 10.0 TU |
| B. | 0.5 TU |
| C. | 1.0 TU |
| D. | 5.0 TU |
| Answer» D. 5.0 TU | |
| 50. |
A standard z-score is related to: |
| A. | Normal distribution |
| B. | Binomial distribution |
| C. | t-test |
| D. | Chi-square test |
| Answer» B. Binomial distribution | |