The Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Mental Health

[NPDebs]

Project Lead: Bisola Ahmed and Deborah Udoh

@NPDebs @Bisola15
Mentor: Aswathi

Welcome to OLS-7! This issue will be used to track your project and progress during the program. Please use this checklist over the next few weeks as you start Open Life Science program 🎉.

---

Week 1: Meet your mentor!

• Meet mentor for 30 minutes
• Create an account on GitHub
• Check if you have access to the HackMD notes set up for your meetings with your mentor
• Prepare to meet your mentor(s) by completing a short homework provided in your shared notes
• Complete your own copy of the open leadership self-assessment and share it to your mentor
  If you're a group, each teammate should complete this assessment individually. This is here to help you set your own personal goals during the program. No need to share your results, but be ready to share your thoughts with your mentor.
• Make sure you know when and how you'll be meeting with your mentor.

Before Week 2: Cohort Call (Welcome to Open Life Science!)

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

• Create an issue on the OLS-4 GitHub repository for your OLS work and share the link to your mentor.

• Draft a brief vision statement using your goals

  This lesson from the Open Leadership Training Series (OLTS) might be helpful

• Leave a comment on this issue with your draft vision statement & be ready to share this on the call

• Check the Syllabus for notes and connection info for all the cohort calls.

Before Week 3: Meet your mentor!

• Meet mentor
• Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their vision statement
• Complete this compare and contrast assignment about current and desired community interactions and value exchanges
• Complete your Open Canvas (instructions, canvas)
• Share a link to your Open Canvas in your GitHub issue
• Start your Roadmap
• Comment on your issue with your draft Roadmap
• Suggest a cohort name at the bottom of the shared notes and vote on your favorite with a +1

Before Week 4: Cohort Call (Tooling and roadmapping for Open projects)

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube
• Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their open canvas.

Week 5 and later

• Meet mentor
• Create a GitHub repository for your project
• Add the link to your repository in your issue
• Use your canvas to start writing a README.md file, or landing page, for your project
• Link to your README in a comment on this issue
• Add an open license to your repository as a file called LICENSE.md
• Add a Code of Conduct to your repository as a file called CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
• Invite new contributors to into your work!

This issue is here to help you keep track of work as you start Open Life Science program. Please refer to the OLS-4 Syllabus for more detailed weekly notes and assignments past week 4.

Week 6

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

Week 7

• Meet mentor

Week 8

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

Week 9

• Meet mentor

Week 10

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

Week 11

• Meet mentor

Week 12

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

Week 13

• Meet mentor

Week 14

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

Week 15

• Meet mentor

[NPDebs]

Vision Statement

To reduce the incidence of sleep-related mental illnesses, by enlightening the public, through skillful, concise and accurate research.

[gigikenneth]

This sounds like a wonderful project, can't wait to see the outcome!

[JFormoso]

I think a very large part of the population needs this. I know I do!

[AngelicaMaineri]

Very relevant project, kudos! After reading the vision statement, I am not sure I fully understand the "[make, build, teach, or do something] " part (using terminology from here ). Are you going to conduct a new research? or synthetise existing research? Or make an information campaign? I ask out of curiosity, because I think this is a very relevant and timely project!

[Chukaogbo]

Quite a timely project, especially in the era of overemphasis on economic growth without consideration for what sleep deprivation does to our health.
Just do well to outline how the goals of designing, building, and empowering the team, contributors, and other community members will rub off on the project toward success

[Bisola15]

I think a very large part of the population needs this. I know I do!

So do we, the project is primarily predicated on our own experience with sleep deprivation

[NPDebs]

This sounds like a wonderful project, can't wait to see the outcome!

Thanks! We're super excited too. 🚀

[Bisola15]

Quite a timely project, especially in the era of overemphasis on economic growth without consideration for what sleep deprivation does to our health. Just do well to outline how the goals of designing, building, and empowering the team, contributors, and other community members will rub off on the project toward success

Thank you so much for that. We will definitely keep that in mind ❤️

[NPDebs]

Very relevant project, kudos! After reading the vision statement, I am not sure I fully understand the "[make, build, teach, or do something] " part (using terminology from here ). Are you going to conduct a new research? or synthetise existing research? Or make an information campaign? I ask out of curiosity, because I think this is a very relevant and timely project!

@AngelicaMaineri Thank you so much for drawing our attention to this resource. Your curiosity was instrumental. 😅
I hope the long version of our vision statement helps answer some of your questions. We're open to answering more questions you might have!

We are working with scientists and researchers to teach and create awareness about the effect of sleep deprivation on mental health, so as to reduce the incidence of sleep-related mental disturbances.

We aim to provide adequate information to some significantly sleep-deprived target groups—nigerian university students—and eventually spread this mission internationally.

The goal is to piggyback on already-existing research works, and additionally carry out surveys involving the aforementioned target groups. The data collated will hopefully help encourage better sleep patterns, prevent unnoticed mental disturbances (irritability, impaired judgment) and more significant ones (hallucination, dementia).

[Bisola15]

Here's a link to our Open Canvas...

[Bisola15]

Here's a link to our GitHub repository

https://github.com/NPDebs/The-Somnus-Project