My research project is designed to study the effects of long term isolation in a spacecraft on the mental health of astronauts. This study will also apply the technological mitigating technique of video games to one of the groups of astronauts to study the role that escapism may play in helping to make the time … Continue reading Mental Health in Space Project
My research topic is “The impact of Prolonged Isolation in Relation to Space Travel”. Since there is not a good way to conduct an actual experiment studying this without sending humans on a long duration space flight I decided that the best way to study this is to gather information that studies confinement effects on … Continue reading Week 13 Research
The database I used for my next three searches was Biomed Central also known as BMC. My first search was for “Isolation and mental health confinement”. This returned 132 results. The Boolean operator I used was “and”. I found an article near the top of the search that might have useful data it was detailing … Continue reading Week 11 Refining my search Jared Hornbaker
The first three searches that I did were in CORE. The time frame for the first search was between 2001 and 2020. The keywords I used were “Space Travel”. This search returned 9,566,031 articles. 3,702,995 were in English. This told me that I needed to refine my search more. The second search was for the … Continue reading Week 10 Research Results