Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Gwich'in Settlement Area
Tags: health, social sciences, education, smoking
| Principal Investigator: | Hammond, Merryl (6) |
| Licence Number: | 14496 |
| Organization: | Consultancy for Alternative Education |
| Licensed Year(s): |
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
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| Issued: | Apr 08, 2009 |
| Project Team: | Rob Collins, Jerome Gordon, Lucy Kuptana, Alfred Moses, Debbie Dedam-Montour, Natalie Beauvais, Joanne Ogina, Tanya Greenland |
Objective(s): To use Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) to empower people in Aklavik and Holman to take increasing control over tobacco-related research and plans for community action to reduce tobacco abuse over 5 years.
Project Description: The researchers will use Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) to empower people in Aklavik and Holman to take increasing control over tobacco-related research and plans for community action to reduce tobacco abuse over 5 years. Members of the CBPR Groups were selected during fall 2007, trained about tobacco and health, CBPR, how to design survey instruments, and how to collect data. During the fall and winter of 2008, the teams have conducted a baseline community survey about smoking using a 4-page interview schedule (one for adults and one for youth). The teams are also doing their own data entry using project-supplied computers. In both communities where they are working, Aklavik and Ulukhaktok (Holman), the researchers have hired and trained local people to work as Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) team members. These CBPR teams are responsible for implementing all phases of the research, and then for feeding back the research results and working with community members to plan, implement and evaluate community-based strategies to tackle the tobacco epidemic in these communities. Members of the CBPR Groups will communicate results with community members as soon as the researchers have analyzed and interpreted the results and produced user-friendly materials (e.g. posters, flyers, radio announcements). They will go on local radio and offer community meetings to share results, and then engage community members in a process of planning culturally-appropriate and locally-relevant community action plans to reduce tobacco use. They have also established good links with staff in the local schools, and in Holman, with the active Youth Council there, so children and youth will be included in all report-back activities. The fieldwork for this study will be conducted from April 07 to December 31, 2009, in Aklavik and Ulukhaktok.
