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Exploring How Self-Monitoring Influences the Effects of Listening to Sleep Meditations to Improve Sleep Quality and Adherence

Uhlke, V.C. (2024) Exploring How Self-Monitoring Influences the Effects of Listening to Sleep Meditations to Improve Sleep Quality and Adherence.

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Abstract:Many people have difficulties maintaining healthy sleep patterns, which is problematic as good sleep improves people's well-being. To find a potential solution, the one-week quantitative sleep study explored the following research question: To what extent does self-monitoring, as measured through an electronic sleep diary, enhance the impact of listening to meditation podcasts in improving sleep quality and adherence rates? Similarly, 43 participants were recruited via WhatsApp private chat and 4 participants through the SONA System. Consequently, the convenience sampling method was used. Then, participants were assigned to the experimental or control group. Moreover, the sleep study utilised an electronic sleep diary, a meditation podcast, and sleep questionnaires, all implemented inside the TIIM app. After the sleep intervention, the outcomes showed that listening to meditations and using a sleep diary did not increase sleep quality and adherence rates among the experimental group. Nevertheless, the control group had no sleep diary, and sleep quality improved. Besides, self-monitoring did not moderate the effects of listening to meditations and improving sleep quality. To conclude, the sleep study broadened the knowledge of the effectiveness of using a meditation podcast implemented inside an app.
Item Type:Essay (Bachelor)
Faculty:BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Subject:77 psychology
Programme:Psychology BSc (56604)
Link to this item:https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/98078
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