| Principal Investigator: | De Roose, Elsie C. (5) |
| Licence Number: | 14457 |
| Organization: | Department of Health and Social Services, Population Health Division, Government of NWT |
| Licensed Year(s): |
2010
2009
2008
2007
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| Issued: | Jan 20, 2009 |
| Project Team: | Dr. Gita Sharma (Dietary Assessment Coordinator , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Dr. Joel Gittelsohn (Program Oversight, John Hopkins School of Public Health), Melanie Keevik (Data Collection and Interventionist , Hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk), Shelley Wolki (Data Collection and Interventionist , Hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk ), Lindsay Beck (Project Manager, Town of Inuvik), Sandy Hansen (Interventionist, Town of Inuvik), Aaron Livingstone (Interventionist, Town of Inuvik), Jennifer Cockney (Interventionist, Town of Inuvik), Denise Nogasak (Interventionist, Hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk) |
Objective(s): The overall goal of the program is to improve healthy food consumption, and promote healthy activity, through improved food availability, nutrition education and by increasing physical activity for good health.
Project Description: This licence is issued for the scientific research application No. 963. The overall goal of the program is to improve healthy food consumption, and promote healthy activity, through improved food availability, nutrition education and by increasing physical activity for good health. These activities will reduce the risk factors associated with chronic disease. This program works closely with a wide number of local, regional, aboriginal, national and other partners, to identify which foods to target, the collection of data, and the intervention project itself. The project aims to reduce the risk for chronic disease through the development, implementation and evaluation of Healthy Foods North – a community-based intervention program. In order to be able to demonstrate to the communities, partners and funders that the project has improved diet, increased physical activity and improved education concerning lifestyle choices, a number of measures and sets of evaluation take place before, during and after the program. This is multi-phased project began in October 2006. Much of the project has already been described in previous research License Applications (#434 – 2006, #573 – 2007, #754 -- 2008). Plans for data collection in 2009 include: 1) The heights, weights and physical activity measures (anthropometric measurements) will be taken at the end of the project (late summer). Weights are measured in light, indoor clothing without shoes, using a Seca Model 770 digital electronic scale (Irwin Shorr Productions). Heights are measured without shoes, using a portable taximeter (Irwin Shorr Productions) (Inuvik, Tuktoyaktuk and Ulukhaktok). 2) The Food Frequency Questionnaires and Adult Impact Questionnaires will be repeated in Inuvik, Tuktoyaktuk and Ulukhaktok to measure changes in eating habits, knowledge or behaviour. 3) Pricing data will continue to be collected monthly in Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk. 4) Process Evaluation data will be collected for Phases 5, 6 and 7 of the project. As local community members, and/or local health and social services staff are involved in this project, local languages are used where appropriate. Where needed, translation services will be provided and written consents are also a mandatory feature and must be collected from participants. Results are communicated to the residents of the communities through local Community Corporations and local and regional Inuvialuit organizations. Program updates are provided on the website. Formal reports are prepared and submitted to the community and any other partners as appropriate, through local and regional newsletters and to local, regional and national Inuit and Inuvialuit partners. The fieldwork for this study will be conducted in Inuvik, Tuktoyaktuk and Ulukhaktok from 20-Jan-2009 to 31-Dec-2009.
