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Does staying inside your home for long periods of time affect ones mental health.

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Mental health and staying inside

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Mental health deterioration is my response variable.

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Non changing surroundings ( staying inside your home for long periods of time) is the explanatory variable.

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Random volunteers chosen by phone call (first 100 callers).

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Assign half the volunteers to be in their homes for 23 hours a day for 3 months and the other half to be inside their home for only 11 hours (out of a 24 hour day) every day for three months. These people will then have to be in their homes for this amount of time assigned to them, no shoeprter and no longer.

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Two people with the same daily routine- one person is assigned to stay at home for the 23 out of 24 hour period, while the other only stays for their 11 out of 24 hour period for the 3 month experiment period.

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I’m not doing crossover design or placebo because I felt that matched pairs went the best with my experimental question, and placebo wouldn’t work because I’m not giving my experimental units anything consumable.

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Randomly assign people to a treatment by labeling numbers 1-50 for “23 hours at home” and 51-100 “11 hours at home” on pieces of paper. Put in a hat and mix, each person will pick a number out of the hat, what they pick is their treatment.

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I can’t use this method because the volunteers will have to know what treatment they’re getting in order for the experiment to work.

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My sample size is 100 people because a smaller sample size won’t show as much results.

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My margin of error is 11.2% with a 97% confidence rate.

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I plan to replicate this experiment with the same amount people and the same conditions after the next 6 months but within the next 12 months.

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Everyone went through a psychological evaluation prior to the start of the experiment (3 consecutive months long). In the beginning most people were in the middle range of mental health (not bad but not amazing). 97% percent of the people reported bad mental on a mental health rating scale after the 3 month period that spent a majority of their hours inside (the group that spent 23 hours inside a day). 12% reported bad mental health after the 3 months of the people who spent the majority of their day outside of the home (group who spent only 11 hours inside a day). At the end of the experiment these same people were once again evaluated and both groups had changed more than 30% either way, respectively. People who spend more time outside or change their surroundings often are proven to be happier.

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This is statistically significant because there was a higher percentage of people who reported a bad mental state after staying in their homes for a longer period of time than those who left frequently. With a 11.2% margin of error,these results are not completely correct.