Question 1
Apply SMART principles with the goal to improve your sleep. Firstly, explain how you would apply two sleep hygiene habits for one week to improve your sleep. Secondly, provide a clear rationale for choosing the two sleep hygiene habits, respectively. Lastly, reflect on and describe your experience of applying SMART principles and the process of behavioural change in adopting the two chosen sleep hygiene habits. Please use the following template to guide your answers.
Additional notes – Students need to include the following in their answers. Students need to relate their experiences and observations to relevant empirical evidence.
Students are encouraged to go beyond the provided guidance to enrich their discussion
o Current sleep duration, quality, and relevant sleep habits before their bedtime.
o Elaboration on reasons for choosing the two sleep hygiene habits.
o Description of application and experiences of using SMART principles to adopt the two chosen sleep hygiene habits.Description of experiences in making the behavioural changes by adopting the two chosen sleep hygiene habits.
Question 2
Appraise the effectiveness of sleep hygiene by explaining how maintaining healthy sleep hygiene habits was effective and/or ineffective in improving your sleep. Support your answers with relevant information from the extant literature.
Additional notes:
Students need to evaluate the effectiveness of sleep hygiene in relation to current research literature.
- Students need to explain and conclude how sleep hygiene was effective and/or ineffective n improving sleep quality.
Question 3
Having applied healthy sleep hygiene habits to improve your sleep, examine how self-determination theory can be used to explain your experiences discussed in Questions 1 and 2.
Additional notes:
- Students need to use self-determination theory to explain the strengths and limitations of using healthy sleep hygiene habits to help improve sleep quality.
- Students need to support answers with relevant information from the extant literature.
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