Sleep Quality and Daytime Sleepiness in Prelicensure Baccalaureate Nursing Students.

Background: Nursing students need to learn about sleep health to provide safe patient care. The purpose of this study was to investigate sleep in nursing students and describe factors that affect their sleep.

Method: This study used a cross-sectional descriptive design with a convenience sample from baccalaureate nursing programs in a midwestern region of the United States.

Person-Fit as an Index of Inattentive Responding: A Comparison of Methods Using Polytomous Survey Data.

Self-report measures are vulnerable to response biases that can degrade the accuracy of conclusions drawn from results. In low-stakes measures, inattentive or careless responding can be especially problematic. A variety of a priori and post hoc methods exist for detecting these aberrant response patterns.