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Countermeasures to Mitigate the Negative Impact of Sensory Deprivation and Social Isolation in Long-Duration Space Flight

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Long-duration space flight presents several challenges to the behavioral health of crew members. The environment that they are likely to experience will be isolated, confined, and extreme (ICE) and, as such, crew members will experience extreme sensory deprivation and social isolation. The current paper briefly notes the behavioral, cognitive, and affective consequences of psychological stress induced by ICE environments and proposes nine countermeasures aimed at mitigating the negative effects of sensory deprivation and social isolation. Implementation of countermeasures aims to maintain successful crew performance and psychological well-being in a long-duration space flight mission.

Source: NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

Authors: Katharine Ridgeway OBrien Bachman, Christian Otto, Lauren B. Leveton

Language: English

Topic: Spaceflight effects on biology

Subfield: Physiology (medical)

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Space Biomedical Research Institute, Langley Research Center

OpenAlex ID: W2104458740

FWCI: 0.204

Cites: 17

Cited by: 14

Related to: 10