PWU Journal of Research, Innovation, and Transformation | Volume 1, Issue 1: 39-48, 2026 | DOI: 10.62762/JRIT.2025.170937
Abstract
Previous studies showed estimated prevalence of diet non-adherence among maintenance hemodialysis patients ranged from 10.6 to 60.2\%. Aside from the varying range of diet non-adherence worldwide, there is no gold-standard in defining diet non-adherence which emphasizes the need to look into various parameters of diet non-adherence such as medications, socioeconomic factors, depression, social support, etc. This cross-sectional study aimed to determine the following: 1. Correlation of depression with diet non-adherence of maintenance hemodialysis patients; 2. Correlation of social support with diet non-adherence of maintenance hemodialysis patients of 24 maintenance hemodialysis patients fro... More >
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