Wen Luo

By Wen Luo, Xiuli Zhang and Kaijing Ren

Despite the effective pharmacological management of the disease over the last two decades, many individuals with RA continue to have psychological distress, and this is associated with poor outcomes. Addressing psychological issues hand in hand with pharmacological treatment will help to maximize outcomes for people with RA. Self-management (SM) is of utmost importance for people with rheumatoid arthritis to minimize their complaints, reduce clinic visits, and reduce disability. Considering the continuous update on the guidelines for disease management, non-pharmacological management remains a poorly addressed need of importance. In this chapter, we will introduce the current and progress of self-management in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Part of the book: Rheumatoid Arthritis

By Shuang Yang, Huiwen Zhao and Wen Luo

The arrival of the artificial intelligence era has changed the style of unimodal cultural communication and integrated multimodal communication technology, which helps understand social development and people’s lives from a new, all-round perspective. Cross-cultural communication can make full use of artificial intelligence and digital virtual simulation technology to achieve in-depth experience and in-depth perception of culture, and ultimately realize people’s in-depth recognition of each other’s national culture. The multimodal way of transforming language into a way of expression that the other party can understand and accept, thus generating identity, can greatly enhance the power of cross-cultural communication so that the content of the communication will first act on the emotional field of each other, and then transition from emotional identity to rational identity.

Part of the book: Understanding Multiculturalism and Interculturalism in Cross Cultures [Working title]