Sleep and Breakfast Intervention Plan

Paper Summary:

This paper reviews literature that illustrates the importance of a strong diet and sleeping patterns upon the over-all health and well-being of young people. Moreover, the paper outlines some of the pertinent theories which offer insight into the entire process and additional time is taken to review the specific challenges the writer faced when implementing the plan and what has been learned from an admittedly difficult process.

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Abstract
Value of Sleep and Breakfast
Literature Review
Intervention plan
Summary and Self-Evaluation of Intervention

From the Paper:

"Indeed, a study of homeless women residing in downtown Los Angeles found that almost half of the women surveyed (there were 50 in total and they ranged in age from 18 to 44) slept 6 or fewer hours per night and had an uneven "day/night" sleep pattern. As well, employing the bio-behavioral framework to the full, lifestyle choices - habitual drinking, smoking, and drug use - were significant predictors of poor sleep patterns and mental health illnesses such as depression, chronic anxiety (especially anxiety sparked by worries about money and safety), and persistent loneliness, were also contributing factors to the "sleep/wake" patterns of the subject population."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Americans drastically underestimate the value of sleep, book suggests (1998). American Psychological Association Monitor. Retreived March 10, 2007 from http://www.apa.org/monitor/mar98/sleep.html.
• Anti-aging: The Value of Sleep (2004). Restoring Unity in the World Corporation. Retrieved March 11, 2007 from http://www.restoreunity.org/anti_aging.htm.
• Borelli, B. (2002). Motivating parents of kids with asthma to quit smoking: the PAQS project. Health Education Research, 17(5): 659-669.
• Carskadon, M.A., Harvey, K., Duke, P. et al. (1980). Pubertal changes in daytime sleepiness. Sleep 2, 453-460.
• Carskadon, M.A., Anders, T.F., & Hole, W. (1988). Sleep disturbances in childhood and adolescence. In: H.E. Fitzgerald, B.M. Lester and M.W. Yogman (eds), Theory and Research in Behavioral Pediatrics Vol. 4, 221-247. Plenum, New York (1988).

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