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1	1	=== Details ===
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3		-|**Acronym**|ACT
4		-|**Description**|Utilizing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to improve participants’ psychological flexibility, stress and well-being, performance and error measures
5		-|**Principal Investigator (PI)**|Karoly Schlosser
6		-|**Organisation** |Institute of Management Studies, Goldsmiths University of London
7		-|**Co-Investigators**|n/a
	3	+|**Acronym**|STEMRAD
	4	+|**Description**|The Israeli/US company Stemrad developing a radiation protection vest to allow the body to recover after exposure by shielding the bone marrow and other stem cell-rich organs.
	5	+|**Principal Investigator (PI)**|Rajarshi Pal Chowdhury, PhD
	6	+|**Organisation** |StemRad, Inc.
	7	+|**Co-Investigators**|Oren Milstein
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9	9	=== Summary ===
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16		-Astronauts are at all times required to provide outstanding performance. They are to remain resilient and to maintain their psychological well-being in order to successfully accomplish their mission in extreme and isolated environments. Future Martian explorers therefore have to be selected and trained to be able to deal with such environments and to be able to maintain an adaptive and resilient mind-set, communicate with others efficiently and pro-actively, process and accept worries and sadness, and to stay persistent with respect to the goals of the mission.
	16	+The objective of this experiment of this project will be to assess the viability of analog astronauts wearing a radiation protective vest especially made for surfa[[image:STEMRAD_manifest.png||style="float:right"]]ces whose gravity is less than the Earth (The Mars or the Moon). We aim to gather key answers such as the weight, comfortability, and ergonomics issues faced by the astronauts wearing this vest while performing daily activities and any recommendation for future improvements.
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18		-In the course of the experiment, all six analog astronauts will be trained in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). In a wide range of studies, ACT has proven to increase people’s psychological flexibility; this is, their ability to pursue their important goals, even when they experience thoughts, feelings, fears, and emotions that may get in the way of their moving towards those goals. The ACT training will focus on providing key, practical skills that the participants can use in carrying out their daily activities, as well as in interacting with their colleagues. This study aims to assesses the ability of ACT to improve participants’ psychological flexibility, stress and well-being, performance and error measures, narrative contents and communication patterns, cognitive and physiological outcomes.
	18	+The main objective of the experiment is to wear the vest for a cumulative of 30-40 hours during their operation outside the habitat and wearing it 2 nights of sleeping (cumulatively 12-16 hours). this should be enough for generating required information. The total hours can be divided between different AAs based on their schedule and availability. Each AA who participates on this experiment need to fill up a questionnaire and return to the PIs for evaluation after the experiment is over. The following procedure includes the steps of putting on (‘donning’), off (‘doffing’) and storing the vest. Videos are also provided to help to understand how to ‘don’ and ‘doff’ the vest safely.
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20		-The study will use a pre - post-test design. The pre-test will be completed by the participants before the ACT training, a post-test after completing the training. Further, a follow-up measure will be taken from participants at the end of their mission. Additional qualitative data will be collected from the analog astronauts in form of a diary.
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22	22	=== Experiment Data ===
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