Grant: Knowledge Translation Supplement - PA: First Nations Inuit or Métis

The TAIMA TB awareness campaign, aimed to expand and increase awareness of TB in the community of Iqaluit through a multifaceted awareness campaign to empower community members with TB knowledge in both Inuktitut and English to improve uptake in preventative efforts and to reduce stigma. The resulting awareness campaign produced key Inuktitut TB messages that focused on the Inuit oral tradition, the historical TB Canadian Inuit context, as well as the need for special attention to TB terms in the Inuktitut language. The TAIMA TB awareness campaign was derived using input from the target group and all of the stakeholders and consisted of 5 key messages that increased TB awareness and preventative efforts in Iqaluit, Nunavut. Effective dissemination strategies included a YouTube video challenge, a Facebook page and a TAIMA TB celebration night. Multi-faceted interventions have been shown to be an effective approach to KT strategies as is the importance of tailoring to local contexts. We have chosen to maintain this strategy for the proposed dissemination activities in the present KT Supplement proposal. As shown, TAIMA TB has used several vehicles to disseminate knowledge. However, we have chosen only the most effective for this proposal based on evidence generated by TAIMA TB. There will be six target communities, three with direct participation which will be visited by the team (Cape Dorset, Pangnirtung and Ottawa) and three from a distance via teleconference in one community in each of the three regions outside of Nunavut - Inuvialut, Nunavik and Nunatsiavut. Each of these communities has a different context and therefore, the location of the dissemination activities will need to be reflective of these differences. The high school setting will be the main context however the clinic context will also be part of the dissemination efforts. Improved knowledge among the Inuit in regards to TB will empower the community and lead to improved preventative efforts.