NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Harris, Ronald W.
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: Nurses presently employed in the various health delivery settings across the NWT will be surveyed to identify the factors contributing to longer tenure. Data will be collected and analyzed in order to assess trends and models for recruitment screening and nurse hiring practices will be developed....

Principal Investigator: Hall, Barbara
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993 1992
Summary: The resarchers will continue their study, started in 1992, on assessing the health-related knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours of children and youth in the NWT. Data will be collected through a survey administered through NWT schools. Teachers will also be surveyed with regard to the implementation of the NWT School Health Program. Researchers from selected communities will be trained t...

Principal Investigator: Palacios, Carolina
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992 1991 1990
Summary: In its final year of research, information will be collected concerning how, where and why injuries happen in the N.W.T.. This research will aid the present health system in targeting specific concerns and improving intervention programs....

Principal Investigator: Graham, Karen
Licensed Year(s): 1991 1990
Summary: Ms. Graham and Ms. Haywood will continue to administer the Inquiry Mode Questionnaire of Harrison and Bramson. The investigation will compare thinking styles of nurses in Outpost Health Centres with urban hospital nurses....

Principal Investigator: Barreto, Luis
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: A preliminary study will be undertaken to confirm the safety and the immunogenicity of the Connaught conjugate vaccine for native populations of the NWT (Phase I). This will be determined by the frequency and severity of adverse responses to three doses of the vaccine by a sample of infants 2-3 months of age drawn from Inuit and Dene populations. Parental consent will be obtained for all those in...

Principal Investigator: Larke, R.P. Bryce
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To carry out a study of the epidemiology and control of viral hepatitis in Northern Canada....

Principal Investigator: Larke, R.P. Bryce
Licensed Year(s): 1982
Summary: To assess the extent of carriage by pregnant native women of a particular virus (hepatitis B virus HBV markers) Blood samples will be taken from appropriate donors in their home communities....

Principal Investigator: Spady, Donald W.
Licensed Year(s): 1982
Summary: As a folow-up to a 1973/74 study of infant mortality rates; this will deal with these children (now 8 and 9 years of age) from the standpoint of their present health and the incidence of certain diseases....

Principal Investigator: Spady, Donald W.
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: As a follow-up to a 1973/74 study of infant mortality rates, this study will deal with these children (now 6 and 7 years of age) from the standpoint of their present health and the incidence of certain diseases....

Principal Investigator: McLean, D. M.
Licensed Year(s): 1976
Summary: 1) To define the prevalence of arboviruses pathogenic for man, especially California encephalitis virus, 2) to determine quantitive relationships between the incidence of arboviral infection in mosquito larvae, adult mosquitoes and vertebrate reservoirs of arboviral virus....