Reference no: EM13371458

An article that deals with sleep and shift-workers.

1. What can you tell us about the journal that this article was published in?

2. What type of study design is this?

3. What level of evidence is this study design?

4. What was the total number of participants surveyed for the study?

5. What was the total number of participants who completed the entire survey?

6. Should the researchers have reported the results based on the number from question #4 (above) or question #5 (above)? And Why?

7. As a health practitioner, you have a patient/client who has just asked the following question: "I've heard that poor sleep quality is significantly associated with some things...can you tell me what those are?" Based on this article, what would you tell that patient/client?

8. What was the operational definition of ‘sleep disturbance' used by the researchers?

9. Please provide a brief description of a shift worker from the information provided in the article

10. Please describe the participants in this study to the best of your ability.

11. From an ethical perspective, what have the researchers done to demonstrate ethical considerations of the study.

12. From the data in Table 1, what % of participants had disclosed that they had no daytime dysfunctions?

13. Describe 1 limitation and 1 strength to this study?

14. Please provide a brief summary of the article (For example, if someone asked you to tell them about the article in 2-3 sentences and justify your response, what would you say)?

15. Consider yourself a graduated Health Practitioner. From an evidence-based practice model, is this an article that you would use to inform yourself or your clients/patients about sleep habits and health outcomes if they were working as a nurse or in a FIFO role? Yes or No and briefly explain.

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