Regions: Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut
Tags: health, wellness, addiction, Inuit, substance abuse
| Principal Investigator: | Brown, Thomas (2) |
| Licence Number: | 12748 |
| Organization: | Concordia University |
| Licensed Year(s): |
1995
1994
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| Issued: | Jan 01, 1994 |
| Project Team: | T. Brown |
Objective(s): To explore how two non-medical community-based Inuit substance abuse treatment programs both promote and maintain recovery; to adapt and validate the content of a multidimensional standaridized assessment protocol; to translate the adapted assessment instrument; and to test the feasibility of the on-going objective assessment and evaluative component in Inuit substance abuse treatment milieu.
Project Description: The researcher will explore how non-medical community based Inuit substance abuse treatment programs in Iqaluit and Kuujjuaq both promote and maintain recovery. The researcher will develop, test the feasibility of and translate an assessment instrument. This study will be the first stage of an ongoing research project. In the second stage of this research project, the researcher proposes to evaluate the assessment instrument.
