Subject: Your Health Unit Lab #1

Title: Nap Lab “a qualitative Lab”

Date:
Name: First and last name

Purpose: A qualitative lab that students will collect qualitative data (describes in words) about
their health triangle status (Mental/emotional, social, physical health) before and after taking a
nap, to determine if their overall health triangle improves.

Introduction to lab:
Nap Article: Napping
Reference APA:
Sleep foundation (n.d.). Napping. Retrieved from
https://www.sleepfoundation.org/sleep-topics/napping

Napping is one way to make yourself feel more relax and refresh. It can gives many
benefits to our body. It also can make our health triangle more balanced.
In this experiment, I would like to find out that is napping gives benefits to our self and
how it affect the health triangle after I did it.
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❖ Introduction & Background & purpose of lab: Summarize in 2 paragraphs
❖ The first paragraph usually consist of the background information with/without in text
citations
❖ The second paragraph usually consists of the connection between the topic and lab
experiment
❖ Usually the last sentence will state the purpose of the lab or question ( In this experiment
I would like to find out…)

Hypothesis:
❖ Not every lab includes a hypothesis

Material list:

Write down your own materials used for this lab

Example 15 min nap lab materials:
Desk
Chair
Jacket
Pillow
Fan

Procedure/Method -
Requirements for your nap: Quiet comfortable space, no cell phone, no tablet, no music, Totally
unplug and rest your mind and body.

Data/table/graphs/photos - will not be applicable for this lab

Discussion/Analysis
❖ Answer the questions 10 minute nap, 15 minute nap, 30 minute nap, 60 minute nap, 90
minute nap

10 minute nap reflection Date:

1. What were your thoughts before your nap?
Answer: I am very active and don’t think I can sleep.
2. What were you doing right before you took your nap?
Answer: I was doing homework
3. Describe your health triangle before your nap
Answer: Good physical, social, and metal health.
4. How do you feel after your nap? Describe your health triangle
Answer: I feel I want more nap. My health triangle is still balanced
5. Do you you think your nap was beneficial? Explain
Answer: A bit beneficial because I get to sleep and felt more relax
6. Was it hard for you to relax and take a nap? Explain
Answer: No, because I am a person that can sleep easilly.
15 minute nap reflection Date:
7. What were your thoughts before your nap?
Answer: I want to watch movie.
8. What were you doing right before you took your nap?
Answer: I was playing my phone.
9. Describe your health triangle before your nap
Answer: My physical health is good because I get enough sleep yesterday, but social
and mental health are not so good.
10. How do you feel after your nap? Describe your health triangle
Answer: I feel more refresh and want to go watch movie.
11. Do you you think your nap was beneficial? Explain
Answer: I think it benefit because I feel that I have more energy to do something.
12. Was it hard for you to relax and take a nap? Explain
Answer: Not really, because I can sleep easily.

20 minute nap reflection Date:

13. What were your thoughts before your nap?
Answer: Very tired and wanted to sleep
14. What were you doing right before you took your nap?
Answer: Doing homework and sleep
 15. Describe your health triangle before your nap
Answer: Not so good physical health because tired. Don’t really want to talk to anyone.
So, the mental and social health are unbalanced
16. How do you feel after your nap? Describe your health triangle
Answer: I still feel sleepy and tired
17. Do you you think your nap was beneficial? Explain
Answer: Yes, because it make me feel less sleepy a bit.
18. Was it hard for you to relax and take a nap? Explain
Answer: It was very easy because I was really tired and want to sleep.

30 minute nap reflection Date:

19. What were your thoughts before your nap?
Answer: I want to sleep
20. What were you doing right before you took your nap?
Answer: I was reading a book.
21. Describe your health triangle before your nap
Answer: My physical, emotional, and social health are not good because I was very tired
and that causing me don’t want to talk to anybody.
22. How do you feel after your nap? Describe your health triangle
Answer: I still feel that I want to sleep, but a bit awake.
23. Do you you think your nap was beneficial? Explain
Answer: I think it is a bit benefit because I feel I want to do more activity.
24. Was it hard for you to relax and take a nap? Explain
Answer: Not at all because I was very tired.

60 minute nap reflection Date :

25. What were your thoughts before your nap?
Answer: I was very confusing.
26. What were you doing right before you took your nap?
Answer: I was chatting
27. Describe your health triangle before your nap
Answer: My physical, emotional, and social health are not so good.
28. How do you feel after your nap? Describe your health triangle
Answer: My health triangle are still unbalanced and confusing.
29. Do you you think your nap was beneficial? Explain
Answer: No, because I still feel confusing.
30. Was it hard for you to relax and take a nap? Explain
ANswer: Yes, it took me 10 minutes to sleep.

90 minute nap reflection Date:

 31. What were your thoughts before your nap?
Answer: I need to bring my thing back.
32. What were you doing right before you took your nap?
Answer: I was shrinking in my head.
33. Describe your health triangle before your nap
Answer: My physical, emotional, and social health are very balanced because I get
enough sleep and that causing me to be very socialized.
34. How do you feel after your nap? Describe your health triangle
Answer: My health triangle are very balanced because I am happy and get enough
sleep.
35. Do you you think your nap was beneficial? Explain
Answer: Yes, because I feel more active.
36. Was it hard for you to relax and take a nap? Explain
Answer: It wasn’t hard for me to take a nap because I wanted to sleep.

Conclusion
1 to 3 sentences stating your final results
In conclusion, taking a nap actually benefits because it make me feel
more refresh. It also gives me more energy. That makes me want to do
more activities and want to socialize to other people.

Additional reading:
Understanding Qualitative research and qualitative data:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_research
https://www.uwc.ac.za/Students/Postgraduate/Documents/Qualitative%20data%20analysis.pdf
https://www.snapsurveys.com/blog/qualitative-vs-quantitative-research/
https://nursing.utah.edu/research/qualitative-research/what-is-qualitative-researc
h.php