Publications by authors named "H Gauvin"
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- Access to cultural activities and culturally relevant healthcare is crucial for the holistic health of Indigenous individuals and communities, impacting their overall wellbeing.
- A qualitative study in Thunder Bay, involving 22 Indigenous women, explored their health views and the importance of cultural practices in their care, revealing four major themes: 'independence and self-care', 'external barriers to accessing services', 'finding comfort in the familiar', and 'sense of community'.
- The study highlights the need for healthcare to incorporate cultural practices and consider socio-environmental factors, aiming to establish an Indigenous healing program tailored to these women's needs and preferences.
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- - The study assessed a 26-week intervention's impact on stress biomarkers and mental health symptoms in 53 Indigenous women in Ontario, finding significant reductions in cortisol levels (a stress biomarker) and perceived stress post-intervention.
- - Statistical analysis demonstrated that younger women, those with higher education, and those without disabilities showed more pronounced benefits from the intervention.
- - The findings suggest that while the intervention was effective overall, future programs should be tailored to address the specific needs of different sub-groups within Indigenous populations.
As all human activities, verbal communication is fraught with errors. It is estimated that humans produce around 16,000 words per day, but the word that is selected for production is not always correct and neither is the articulation always flawless. However, to facilitate communication, it is important to limit the number of errors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAntiretroviral medications are expensive, and people living with HIV often experience challenges accessing and paying for medication due to various obstacles. We used concept mapping to explore the challenges people living with HIV in Ontario, Canada, face when accessing medication. In brainstorming, 68 participants generated 447 statements in response to the focus prompt "Some people living with HIV have trouble getting and paying for prescription drugs because … ".
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStudies of context effects in speech production have shown that semantic feature overlap produces interference in naming of categorically related objects. In neuroimaging studies, this semantic interference effect is consistently associated with involvement of left superior and middle temporal gyri. However, at least part of this effect has recently been shown to be attributable to visual form similarity, as categorically related objects typically share visual features.
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