NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Oberle, Eva
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5746. The Middle Years Development Instrument (MDI) is a self-report questionnaire that gives students a voice by answering questions about their feelings and experiences both inside and outside of school. The MDI uses a holistic, strengths-based approach to measure five dimensions of child development strongly linked to s...

Principal Investigator: Exner-Cortens, Deinera
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5502. The primary objectives are to describe the implementation of WiseGuyz with adolescent boys in the Beaufort Delta Education Council (BDDEC), in terms of the lived experiences of a) the youth participants and b) the facilitators/other key program stakeholders in the community; and, to generate culturally-appropriate kno...

Principal Investigator: McPhail, Danielle Sarah
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5195. The specific gap within the current settler-Indigenous relationship is that if non-Indigenous people continue to fear the discomfort that a decolonizing approach can bring, the effects of colonization will stay the same, albeit creating even more racial tensions within the settler-Indigenous relationship. It is also t...

Principal Investigator: Chomienne, Marie-Hélène
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5186. The specific objectives of this project are to 1) understand the urgent mental health needs of housekeeping staff in Canadian hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic by measuring their psychological health status and identifying factors that affect it, and 2) determine, based on the evidence generated and in collaborat...

Principal Investigator: Crooks, Claire
Licensed Year(s): 2022 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5102. The goal of the project is to build capacity and evaluate the efforts in the area of violence prevention and mental health promotion programming for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Two-Spirit, Queer/Questioning (LGBT2Q+) youth. The research team provide educators and other professionals who work directly with LGBT2Q+ Y...

Principal Investigator: Linden, Brooke
Licensed Year(s): 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4799. The purpose of the current project is to conduct a cross-Canada, multi-site release of the Post-Secondary Student Stressors Index (PSSI). This study will take the form of a longitudinal, cross-Canada, multi-site release of the PSSI. This will allow us to further evaluate the tool in a larger sample with broad regional...

Principal Investigator: Bouchard, Louise
Licensed Year(s): 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4770. The objectives of this research are: a) to document innovative initiatives (emerging, promising and best practices) aimed at promoting, preventing or intervening early in mental health and particularly with Francophone minority communities (FMCs) in Newfoundland (NL) and Labrador and in the Northwest Territories; b) u...

Principal Investigator: McHugh, Tara-Leigh
Licensed Year(s): 2019
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4607. The objective of this community-based participatory research (CBPR) is to examine the emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual (i.e., holistic) benefits of participating in northern games for Indigenous youth. To address the research objective, two exploratory research questions will be addressed: 1) How does partic...

Principal Investigator: Giles, Audrey R.
Licensed Year(s): 2019 2018 2017
Summary: The objective of this project is to better understand how Project Jewel’s on-the-land programming offers culturally safe and trauma and violence informed programs that meet the self-identified needs of residents of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. The Inuvialuit Regional Corporation (IRC) as the community partner in this research project will be the owner of the data and control the research p...

Principal Investigator: Malla, Ashok
Licensed Year(s): 2019 2018 2017 2016
Summary: The objective of this project is to transform mental health services for youth aged 11–25 in Ulukhaktok, and to evaluate the impact of these services. The research team will do this by culturally adapting and applying evidence-based strategies, hiring and training local staff to take ownership of and provide leadership for the project, and maximizing the collaboration and engagement of youth, fami...