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Article: Possible gender differences in the relationships of self-efficacy and the internal locus of control with compliance in hemodialysis patients.
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- Behavioral Medicine
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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Compliance is defined as "the extent to which a person's behavior (taking medicines, following proper diets, or executing lifestyle changes) coincides with medical or health advice." (1) Compliance is essential for uremic patients on hemodialysis (HD) as it is associated with mortality. (2) There have been both objective and subjective measures used to determine compliance of uremic patients on hemodialysis. (1) Objective measures include (1) the blood urea nitrogen (BUN) level, which is thought to indicate protein intake; (2) the serum potassium (SK) level, which is thought to indicate potassium intake; (3) interdialytic weight gain (IWG), which is thought to indicate ...