The impacts are already a reality for ordinary individuals who are quarantined due to the pandemic caused by COVID-19. According to UN Brazil, the consequences and uncertainties caused by the pandemic are generating psychological pressure across society, increasing levels of stress, depression, anxiety and other psychological factors. However, with social isolation, mental health services were closed or reduced. As a result, people who need psychosocial care and assistance are without professional support, and their mental problems are aggravated.
The solution to this problem presents itself as an opportunity to improve living conditions in situations of social isolation. In an uncertain period like the present, dealing with the future or the present, the population's need for an intervention to support mental health becomes clear. Thus, we prepared a project, which is based on a painting of a building made by the group, to offer help to people who are being most affected by this difficult time. Through a website, we use art to create a collaborative network that favors dialogue between participants, also relying on news updates about the pandemic. With this, the platform becomes an opportunity to improve living conditions. present and future.
NASA studies how isolation and confinement can alter the health and individual performance of a team of astronauts on long missions through space. Such impacts are already a reality for ordinary individuals who are quarantined due to the pandemic caused by COVID-19. According to UN Brazil, the consequences and uncertainties caused by the pandemic are generating psychological pressure across society, increasing levels of stress, depression, anxiety and other psychological factors.
However, those who suffer most from this are those with existing mental health conditions, which even before the COVID-19 crisis, needed psychological support. According to UN information, health professionals who are at the forefront, the elderly, adolescents and young people are also affected, in addition to those who live in situations of conflict and crisis. It can be said that the scarcity of care and assistance to these population groups, a consequence of the quarantine, causes a permanent increase in aggravated mental conditions, resulting in a population with high depressive manifestations.
So, as a way of supporting and helping these people, we used the internet to develop a website totally inspired by a painting made by the group. In it, which is linked to art and its different manifestations, information will be concentrated such as: where to seek psychological help online, cultural activities that can be carried out remotely and updates on COVID-19 using a real-time monitoring base . In addition, the site has a space for users to interact with each other and exchange experiences.
For the project, we will use the data provided:
- NASA, “Social Isolation in Context”;
- NASA, “Social Isolation and Space”;
- NASA COVID-19 data pathfinders;
relating the isolation in space with that on Earth and present solutions that both can use, studying how human beings behave in confinement environments.
Regarding data monitoring:
-NASA SEDAC Global COVID-19 Viewer;
because it offers a great resource to visualize the worldwide contagion about the new virus.
Also, as a scientific basis, data from the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UN) and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil (UFRJ) on mental health were used.