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The most important causes of non-adherence in patients on dialysis
Renal failure is commonly and chronic disease. Dialysis is routine treatment for these
patients. Adherence to treatment status is one of the problems of patient on dialysis. The
aim at this study is determining of most important causes of non-adherence in patients
on dialysis according to previous studies in Iran.At first all of the studies related to our
title by using some keywords(dialysis, hemodialysis, adherence, and non-adherence)
searched for Iranian databases; iranmedex, magiran, SID, Iran doc, google, google
scholar. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were: 1. Publish articles related to adherence or
non-adherence in Iran. 2. Articles were Persian (published in Iran). 3. Types of articles
were original. 4. All the articles were free full text and downloadable. As a result,
related to inclusion and exclusion criteria 13 articles were found and analysises. The
most important reasons for non-adherence to treatment were: psychological reasons
(often depression), Lack of awareness and attitude of dialysis patients and lack of social
support. Treatment for adherence is so important and can very significant role in health
improvement in patients on dialysis