Principal Investigator:Vedam, Saraswathi Licensed Year(s):
2021
Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4895.
The goal of this project is to develop a valid and reliable person-centered survey to measure the quality of maternity care in Canada among people with various identities, according to the WHO criteria for Respectful Maternity Care and mistreatment.
The research team consists of a Steering Council of 10 community m...
Principal Investigator:Cruz, Sheila Licensed Year(s):
2021
Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4973.
The aim of this project is to understand what the escort policy means to the pregnant women and their escorts and what impacts it has on their overall birthing experience.
The objectives of this study are: to understand the relationship of the escort to the pregnant woman and the rationale for escort choice when t...
Principal Investigator:Dawson, Leslie C Licensed Year(s):2014
2013
Summary:
The purpose of this research project is to:
- Illuminate local factors impacting pregnancy and maternal health that may then be later addressed through community based participatory research;
- Promote biocultural approaches to Aboriginal maternal health and wellbeing that incorporate Indigenous ways of knowing and traditional knowledge;
- Elucidate factors impacting pregnancy and maternal heal...
Principal Investigator:Hannon, Judith L Licensed Year(s):20142013
2012
20112006 Summary:
To confirm that the RhD phenotype is appropriately assigned in a population of prenatal patients that has not been studied for the presence of variant RHD gene alleles that would require them to be assigned an Rh-negative status and treated with Rh immune globulin
Samples will be selected for analysis among prenatal samples from the Northwest Territories and Nunavut submitted to the Prenatal La...
Principal Investigator:Badry, Dorothy E Licensed Year(s):
2011
Summary:
This project is a starting place with hopes of developing a proposal for a multi-year, multi-site study to develop and evaluate a culturally-based, trauma-informed, Aboriginal Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) prevention model, using a research process that is participatory, community-based, and decolonizing.
The researchers wish to ensure that this FASD prevention model involves and addr...
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:MacNeil, Chuck Licensed Year(s):20001999
1998
Summary:
This study will serve to establish the types & levels of organochlorines and heavy metals in maternal and cord blood samples, and the level of mercury in hair samples from participants in the area served by the Inuvik Regional & Social Services Board. Sampling protocol has been outlined technical specialists in the field of organochlorine in blood and mercury in hair. Participating mothers deliver...
Principal Investigator:De Roose, Elsie C. Licensed Year(s):
1998
Summary:
Information will be gathered by conducting postnatal interviews with women in communities without a Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP) or or similar prenatal nutrition program. Interviews will be done by a trained interviewer, hired from the community under contract with Health Canada. The interviewer hired will have a health background where possible. The interviews will be done face to fa...
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....