PPD Questions and Critical Analysis

Question 1

Q: What is the purpose of asking critical questions during patient consultations?

Answer 1

A: To gather deeper, more accurate information and avoid assumptions that could lead to misdiagnosis.

Question 2

What’s the difference between leading and neutral questions?

Answer 2

Leading questions suggest an answer (“Your eyes hurt after screens, right?”); neutral questions are unbiased (“Can you tell me about your screen use and any symptoms?”

Question 3

Why is critical analysis important in optometry?

Answer 3

It helps evaluate information objectively, make evidence-based decisions, and spot inconsistencies in patient histories.

Question 4

Imagine a student passes a practical assessment. When discussing it with you, they say they think they did so well because of all the practising they did throughout the term.

What is the student exhibiting in this example?

Answer 4

Internal locus of control

Question 5

What is ‘resilience’?

Answer 5

the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties

Question 6

Provide an example of a person showing resilience.

Answer 6

A person fails an exam but then books a meeting to see where they went wrong,

A person struggles in a lectures so goes away and reads up on the topic / speaks to the lecturer