Our team selected a few learning activities to help learners to understand how insomnia affects our health. We included a sleeping diary which acts as a record or log that learner maintain to track their sleep patterns and habits. The sleep diary will be a useful tool for monitoring and assessing sleep quality and identifying any issues or patterns that may affect sleep. The sleep diary usually includes information such as the learner’s bedtime, wake-up time, sleep duration, sleep quality, naps, sleep environment, pre-sleep routine, caffeine and alcohol consumption, medications, sleep disturbances, and daytime symptoms. Learners will be recording this information for a period (e.g. at least a week or two) to help identify the patterns, triggers or habits that may affect the learner’s sleep. As mentioned, learners will be recording information in their sleep diaries themselves and they may face barriers like inconsistency as some people may forget to record certain information or find it difficult to fill out their diary every day. The inconsistency of the diary may create a challenge for the learners as they would not be able to observe patterns. Moreover, a sleep diary requires a commitment of time and effort learners with busy schedules may face difficulty to fill out the diary. To resolve the barriers listed, learners should create a daily reminder on their electronic device or notebook(something that they check out on a daily bases) to remind themselves to fill out their sleep diary. Also, electronic devices such as phones help monitor users’ sleep duration by recording off-screen time. If the learners have the habit of looking at their phones before going to bed and checking their phones first thing they do when they wake up; the iPhone health function may assist learners in tracking their sleep information. In addition if the learner lives with someone(e.g. family) they may ask their family to help track their sleep duration and remind learners to fill out their sleep diary.
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