Medication adherence, health outcomes, and perceived social performance in Black Americans receiving hemodialysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Social performance-the ability to successfully engage in social interactions-impacts outcomes in end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), including depressive symptoms and low self-efficacy, that are disproportionately experienced by Black Americans. However, the associations between social performance and health behaviors in ESKD are unknown. Social-emotional expertise (SEE) is a construct of individual differences in social performance that may be relevant to ESKD outcomes. Study goals are to establish the relation between SEE and health behaviors in Black American patients with ESKD by (a) examining the association of SEE with depressive symptoms, self-efficacy, and trust-in-physician and (b) the prediction of medication nonadherence and serum phosphorus by SEE.

Method

SUBMITTER: Wild MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12327809 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature