NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Chatwood, Susan
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: The study will seek to describe the baseline measurements required for ongoing surveillance and monitoring of soil, water and human health outcomes in the ISR. Pilot water testing will be set up in water sources for ISR communities and identify and describe microbes and contaminants that are present. Based on the microbes and contaminants present in the water sources of the ISR, the researcher pla...

Principal Investigator: Cooper, Elizabeth J
Licensed Year(s): 2009
Summary: The researcher is working on an MA thesis, and this research is part of the thesis work. The thesis is ethno-historic meaning that the researcher is interested to have community stories as well as the stories from information that is already written. Stories of interest are of when the hospitals were open as well as before and after they closed. Semi-structured interviews will be conducted wit...

Principal Investigator: Smith, Jane E
Licensed Year(s): 2009
Summary: The goals of this research are: 1. To implement a program of culturally appropriate palliative care that meets the identified needs of each community, 2. To develop culturally appropriate educational resources for clients and their families, communities, and health care workers, 3. To establish a resource of equipment that can be utilized throughout the region to assist those with home palliati...

Principal Investigator: Chatwood, Susan
Licensed Year(s): 2009
Summary: This licence is being issued for the scientific research application No.1060. The main objectives of this research are to 1) describe climate change as a determinant of health and highlight the specific relevance to our northern regions; 2) describe the current climate changes evident globally, nationally, in circumpolar regions and in the community of Aklavik; 3) describe a health determinan...

Principal Investigator: Pardhan, Aliya
Licensed Year(s): 2009
Summary: This license has been issued for the scientific research application #928. The objectives of this research are: i) to define the burden of infectious GI illness including incidence of specific diseases, symptoms, hospitalizations ii) to characterize risk factors for exposure including geographic distribution of disease, impact of weather variables and potential impact of climate change iii) to ...

Principal Investigator: Valaitis, Ruta
Licensed Year(s): 2008
Summary: This licence is issued for the scientific research application #917. The objectives of this research are 1) to identify community health nurses current practice activities and their continuing education needs based on the Community Health Nursing Standards of Practice 2) to investigate differences in continuing education needs by: i. workplace setting (e.g. primary care, home health care, publi...

Principal Investigator: Graham, John R.
Licensed Year(s): 2010 2008 2008 2007
Summary: This study will ultimately allow the researchers to determine the factors that have the greatest impact on the subjective well being (SWB) of practicing social workers in northern communities, and develop recommendations for both the individual social worker and the employer that are likely to enhance SWB in social workers. This research will involve a postal survey sent to 145 members of the Ass...

Principal Investigator: Chan, Laurie H. M.
Licensed Year(s): 2008
Summary: This study seeks to identify levels of contaminants in country foods in the region from which to estimate body burden of contaminants in participants of the Inuit Health Survey. The data will be utilized to assess the overall health status of survey participants, which will include studying the relationship between diet intake of contaminants and body burden; evaluating the complex interactions be...

Principal Investigator: Klein, Michael C
Licensed Year(s): 2006
Summary: , which was submitted in August 2006. The application has been distributed for consultation, concerns have been addressed, and the application was approved by the community organizations and received ethics approval. The licence was not issued at the time. The study will only be conducted now in 2008. The objective of this study is to determine the attitudes and beliefs of urban and rural mater...

Principal Investigator: Mao, Yang
Licensed Year(s): 2009 2008
Summary: The primary objective of this study is to determine the prevalence of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection and cervical dysplasia in women of the Northwest Territories using a DNA technology (HPV-DNA Test). The study will also aim to determine whether cervical cancer screening programs should include the use of the HPV-DNA test to increase effectiveness of cervical cancer screening. Th...