NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region

Tags: health, social sciences, education, smoking

Objective(s): To empower people in Aklavik and Ulukhaktok to take increasing control over tobacco-related research and plans for community action to reduce tobacco abuse over 5 years.

Project Description: This project will use Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) to accomplish the goal of empowering 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, and 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. The teams are also doing their own data entry using project-supplied computers. The research team has 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. This CBPR focus is a unique feature of the research project. Members of the CBPR Groups will communicate results with community members as soon as they are available in the form of 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. The fieldwork for this study will be conducted from November 12, 2010 to December 31, 2010.