Type of research study design for this situation?
Depriving someone of one or two hours of sleep is not going to cause them any noticeable problems at all. To begin with you must operationalize what it is you are planning to study. There is not “sleep.” There are specific things that happen to us during sleep. You will probably need to interrupt the REM sleep cycle to see any realistic effect. With that said it is not possible to interrupt that cycle for one or two hours as it is not that long. You need to begin by doing some research and understanding what exactly sleep is and what you plan on interrupting. If you are simply planning on shortening the sleep time from 8 hours to 6 hours, you may want to get a baseline of data on each person you test. How many times each night do they slip into each of the five stages of sleep and how many times the cycles repeat for them each night. You may want to eliminate one cycle. The cycles tend to repeat 5 to 6 times nightly. Okay, bottom line. You need to do a bit of research before you can ma
