Canadian residential schools & diabetes: a correlational study

dc.contributor.authorBellegarde, Sherrie L.
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-04T21:56:57Z
dc.date.available2023-07-04T21:56:57Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.descriptionA Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Psychology, University of Regina. 39 p.en_US
dc.description.abstractResidential schools were once utilized as a means of assimilation for First Nation and Indigenous people across North America. With that goal in mind, it has become accepted common and documented knowledge that the environment, treatment, facilities, and nutrition were sub-par and below both historical and modern standards for the healthy development of children. Numerous physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual abuses occurred to attendees resulting in historic, intergenerational trauma. In addition to this, there is an epidemic of diabetes sweeping across Canada with rates of diabetes among Indigenous people being twice as high than those among other Canadians. A previous study showed that cultural continuity in the form of language fluency was a protective factor against diabetes and suicidal ideation in on-reserve Indigenous people. In the present study, we used data from the Aboriginal Peoples Survey 2017, which surveyed Canadian Aboriginal people living off-reserve. The data was used to explore the relationship between diabetes and attendance at former residential schools, as well as cultural continuity as a protective factor against diabetes and suicidal ideation among survivors and intergenerational survivors. Intergenerational attendance at residential schools was tracked back to the time of the parents (2nd generation) and grandparents (3rd generation) of those that responded to the survey. To explore the relationships between the binary variables involved, cross-tabulations, logistic regression models, Pearson correlations and chi square tests of independence were used. The findings of the research is discussed and disclosed.en_US
dc.description.authorstatusStudenten_US
dc.description.peerreviewnoen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10294/16001
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherFaculty of Arts, University of Reginaen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous peoples--Health and hygiene.en_US
dc.subjectDiabetes.en_US
dc.subjectAboriginal Canadians.en_US
dc.subjectOff-reservation boarding schools.en_US
dc.subjectIntergenerational relations.en_US
dc.subjectResidential schools.en_US
dc.titleCanadian residential schools & diabetes: a correlational studyen_US
dc.title.alternativeCanadian residential schools & diabetesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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