P4- Plan a research project- In year 12 and 13, are sixth form students sleep deprived?

P4- Plan a research project- In year 12 and 13, are sixth form students sleep deprived?

1. Background Knowledge

   • Many parents are concerned that their children, especially teenagers, are sleep deprived. There is a natural worry that teens are sabotaging their current school performance and future opportunities for educational success by sleeping too little.
   • Few Teenagers don't get recommended amount of sleep
   • Older teens who sleep 7 hours a night tend to have the highest test scores
   • Teens who sleep less than 6 hours a night or more than 11 hours tend to do poorly on tests.
   • National recommendations in the U.S. are that children and teens should get 9.:25 hours of sleep a night

2. Reasons why i'm conducting

   • I want to find out if sleep deprivation effects concertration and the ablity to do well at school.
   • does it effect health issues later in life? or already suffer because of sleep deprivation
   • More sleep give you better grades
   • Why does your sleep depreviaton occur?

3. How?

   • Questionniares
     • Self completion questionaire
       • Open
     • Why?
       • user satisfaction with collections and services
       • relevance of collections and services to user needs
       • trends (by repetition over time).
   • Interviews
     • Interview consisting of open questions
     • Why?
       • Investigates issues in an depth way
       • discover how individuals think and feel about a topic and why they hold certain opinions
       • deepen understanding and explain statistical data
   • Trinagulation
     • Year 12 and 13
     • questionnaire followed up by an interview and possibly a focus group
     • Why?
       • A weakness in one method could be avoided by using a second method that is strong in the area that the first is weak.

4. Pilot study

   • 10 people.
   • Random sample of year 12 and 13

5. Secondry data

   • www.medicaldaily.com ulcerative-colitis-risk-raised-mild-sleep-deprivation-sweet-spot-between-8-and-9-hours-307606
   • http://www.journalsleep.org/ViewAbstract.aspx?pid=24429
   • http://health.ninemsn.com.au/healthnews/8918155/rest-up-sleep-deprivation-makes-us-immora
   • http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/568001/20140929/lethargy-bab-behaviour-biological-clock-sleep-deprivation.htm