A researcher designs an intervention directed at reducing daytime fatigue. The researcher hypothesizes that self-monitoring one's own sleeping habits will increase the amount of time people sleep and reduce daytime fatigue. He has a group of people with sleeping problems record how many hours they sleep per night for two weeks. At the end of the two weeks, he has participants fill out a survey that asks how tired the participants feel during the day. On average, people felt only mildly tired. He concludes that

a. one-group posttest-only design.
b. one-group pretest-posttest design.
c. simple interrupted time-series design.
d. complex interrupted time-series design.


Answer: b. one-group pretest-posttest design.

Psychology

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