Objective: In this clinical trial, we examined whether or not expressive writing as a psychological intervention reduces psychological distress in vitiligo patients receiving phototherapy.  Method: A total of 139 adult vitiligo patients were asked to complete the GHQ-28 in order to identify their psychiatric disturbances. The GHQ-28 scores showed that 78 patients (56.5%) had psychiatric...

The importance of delivering culturally-appropriate health care to meet the unique health needs of Indigenous peoples in Canada has resulted in the emergence of various concepts to describe how care should be provided. However, there is lack of clarity regarding how these terms differ from one another and what they look like in practice. An extended literature search was performed to conceptual...

Overview Both the technologies and design concepts exist for a new generation of low-energy buildings that outperform today’s typical high-performance buildings. Cultural barriers, however, are a primary inhibitor of the widespread construction of these buildings. This paper first gives examples of existing technologies and design concepts exceeding today’s best practice, followed by successful...

in this article, we have intended to analyze the translation of cultural elements from persian into french by relying on a corpus that addresses directly the iranian culture: “guest of mom”, by houshang moradi kermani, translated by maribel bahia. we have chosen this corpus because we could find a lot of instances of humanitarian love and gentleness as reflected in the portrayal of iranian char...