Research Journal 2

What is your topic? Or what are your key words thus far?

Sleep Deprivation

Adolescents

Young Adults

College Students

What is your research question? Have you decided to change it at all? And, if you have, how do I know that the way in which this question is formulated is appropriate to conduct a literature review with a systematic approach?

*Are students more sleep deprived and what effects/health risks can sleep deprivation cause in students of high school/college age?

Does it have life-long effect? Are they sleep deprived because of poor time management, or some other reason, like teachers expecting too much from them?

Have not changed it because this question is working for me and getting me the information I need

And what are the definitions on which it depends?

Adolescents: teen/high school aged

Young adults: late teens

College: 18-25

What is your hierarchy of evidence? And how do I know you going about finding the most appropriate evidence/method for your research question?

Research: I require a lot of research based on how much sleep students get and the effects it has on them

RCT: some students need to keep their same routine while another group is tested to see if a method works in helping them get better quality/quantity of sleep.

Case Control: I need to know a number of different things based off one independent variable (sleep deprivation can lead to…..depression, alcoholism, mood swings, etc.)

Cross Sectional: maybe check other countries to see how their data compares to ours, if their students get more sleep than Americans…what is the most sleep deprived nation?

Mixed Methods: Again, looking at multiple variables to find one common outcome. How much sleep effects the ability to function.