NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Archibald, Linda
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher and her team will provide suicide prevention education to community-based caregivers and motivation to act through the development, production and distribution of a suicide prevention video. Community participation in script development will occur through workshops held in a variety of Inuit communities. An evaluation of the project will assess the impact of community participatio...

Principal Investigator: Johns, Arlene E.
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993 1992 1991
Summary: Upon consent, students, their parents, school counsellors and principal will participate in a case study to examine how some Native students in a small high school adjust and cope successfully while many of their peers reject the school system....

Principal Investigator: Little, Lois M.
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researchers will interview students (ages 12 to 18 years) identified by Divisional Boards or local Education Councils/Authorities as at risk of leaving school before completing grade 12 and those students in this age group who have already left school. The study will determine what influences affected their decision to leave school....

Principal Investigator: Thompson, Caroline
Licensed Year(s): 1991 1990
Summary: Ms. Thompson will use a questionnaire translated into English and Inuktitut, which asks youths 13-15 and 18-20 to identify their three most pressing problems, coping strategies and the characteristics of adults they would turn to for help....

Principal Investigator: Shea, Elaine
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: to describe the health concepts of Inuit adolescents by interviewing Inuit adolescents on their ideas about health (what is being healthy, how one becomes healthy, and how one learns about being healthy)...

Principal Investigator: Condon, Richard G.
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1988 1987
Summary: To continue a project initiated in 1982, examining the effects of recent social changes upon adolescent behaviour and development...

Principal Investigator: Poole, Louise
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To draft nutrition guidelines on nutritious foods and safe food management for the Day Care centres in the N.W.T....

Principal Investigator: Strahlendorf, Peter W.
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To carry out an arctic ecology program within the framework of the Northern Cultural Heritage Project (an integration of scientific research in the Northwest Territories with an education and employment project for young northerners.)...

Principal Investigator: O'Neil, John
Licensed Year(s): 1982
Summary: To study the adaptive ability of young adults to stress in an Inuit village as a flollow-up to a previous study....

Principal Investigator: Spady, Donald W.
Licensed Year(s): 1982
Summary: As a folow-up to a 1973/74 study of infant mortality rates; this will deal with these children (now 8 and 9 years of age) from the standpoint of their present health and the incidence of certain diseases....