Innulluartaarneq (Having the Good Life Study)

Innuluataarneq研究项目的目的是在格陵兰制定、实施、评估和传播一项公共卫生干预措施，重点是格陵兰人对健康行为和性传播感染（STI）的理解和了解。Innuluataarneq的目标人群是15至19岁的青少年及其父母。Innuluataarneq将作为一个跨学科的国际合作社区参与式研究（CBPR），涉及来自美国，加拿大，丹麦和格陵兰岛的研究人员和学生。Innuluataarneq将在格陵兰的三个社区实施：Nuuk、Sisimut和塔西拉克。Innulataarneq有两个组成部分：（1）组成部分1将在格陵兰开展能力建设，以开展社区能力建设项目，加强社区在减少性传播感染方面的自主权，并使格陵兰社区有能力与学术机构合作，开展与格陵兰知识及社会和文化习俗产生共鸣的研究;和2）第2部分将向15至19岁的青少年及其父母提供与社会和文化相关的健康教育干预措施，以提高对性传播感染及其长期影响的认识。有几个要素的知识产权价值的Innulataarneq。首先，人们对北极地区的文化习俗如何影响性传播感染的传播知之甚少。Innulataarneq建立在我们目前在格陵兰的性传播感染研究的基础上，格陵兰性健康研究正在收集有关个人行为，社会决定因素以及影响该国的文化，历史和政治因素的信息？性传播感染率很高。 第二，在格陵兰，没有为解决任何社会科学或健康问题而实行社区康复。因努拉塔阿纳克？CBPR的方法推进了我们对CBPR方法在格陵兰岛等社会和文化多样性北极社区的实际应用的知识和理解。第三，由于格陵兰的性传播感染率高和出生率低，格陵兰的生殖未来处于危险之中。Innulataarneq将探索格陵兰如何促进预防性传播感染的教育工作？为了保护格陵兰岛？生殖的未来。Innulataarneq对社会科学和健康相关领域产生更广泛影响的相关性和重要性包括：1）为美国、加拿大和格陵兰土著居民学生提供经验和培训，使他们掌握在北极社区开展基于社区的参与性性健康研究所需的技能、技术和知识; 2）在美国、加拿大和格陵兰的机构之间建立对话和联系，以促进对北极健康研究重要性的更好理解; 3）提高对格陵兰CBPR方法、性传播感染以及在北极国家解决这一问题的文化相关方式的认识; 4）促进社会科学研究，解决北极社区的健康问题; 5）记录和分享格陵兰的传统知识，以及它如何影响北极社区的性行为。

PROJECT ABSTRACTThe purpose of Innuluataarneq research project is to develop, implement, evaluate, and disseminate a public health intervention in Greenland that focuses on Greenlandic ways of understanding and knowing about healthy behavior and sexually transmitted infections (STI). The target population for Innuluataarneq is 15 to 19 year old adolescents and their parents. Innuluataarneq will be conducted as an interdisciplinary international, collaborative community based participatory research (CBPR) study involving researchers and students from the United States, Canada, Denmark and Greenland. Innuluataarneq will be implemented in three communities in Greenland: Nuuk, Sisimut, and Tasiilaq. There are two components to Innulataarneq: 1) Component 1 will build capacity within Greenland to conduct CBPR projects that enhance community ownership in reducing STIs and empower communities in Greenland to partner with academic institutions to conduct research that resonates with Greenlandic knowledge and social and cultural practices; and 2) Component 2 will provide a socially and culturally relevant health education intervention to adolescents 15 to 19 years old and their parents in order to enhance awareness of STIs and their long term consequences There are several elements to the intellectual merit of Innulataarneq. First, little is known about how cultural practices affect the transmission of STIs in the Arctic. Innulataarneq builds on our current STI research in Greenland, The Greenland Sexual Health Study, which is gathering information on the individual behaviors, social determinants, and cultural, historical, and political factors influencing the country?s high STI rates. Second, CBPR has not been practiced in Greenland to address any social science or health question. Innulataarneq?s CBPR approach advances our knowledge and understanding of the practical application of CBPR methodologies in a socially and culturally diverse Arctic community such as Greenland. Third, the reproductive future of Greenland is in jeopardy due to the countries high STI rates and low birth rates. Innulataarneq will explore Greenlandic ways of promoting educational efforts to prevent STI?s in order to secure Greenland?s reproductive future. The relevance and importance of Innulataarneq to broader impacts in the field of social sciences and health related fields include the following: 1) Provide experience and training for students from indigenous populations in the United States, Canada and Greenland in the skills, techniques and knowledge needed to carry out community based participatory research on sexual health in Arctic communities; 2) Create a dialogue and build connections between institutions in the United States, Canada, and Greenland to foster a greater understanding of the importance of this health research in the Arctic; 3) Raise awareness about CBPR methods in Greenland, STIs, and culturally relevant ways of addressing this problem in an Arctic country; 4) Promote social science research that addresses health issues in Arctic communities; and 5) Documents and shares Greenlandic traditional knowledge and how it influences sexual behavior in an Arctic community.