“…Patients on hemodialysis (HD), the most common treatment modality, are required to adhere strictly to treatment regimen namely diet, fluids, medications (phosphate binder), and dialysis therapy [ 6 ]. The most common dialysis prescriptions, however, do not provide adequate phosphate removal [ 7 ], with hyperphosphataemia frequently reported among HD patients [ 8 , 9 , 10 ]. Precise reasons for this gap remain unclear and various factors have been linked to poor phosphate compliance among HD patients including socio-demographic factors [ 11 , 12 ], depression [ 13 , 14 ], social support [ 15 , 16 ], medication adherence [ 11 , 17 , 18 ], nutritional knowledge on phosphorus [ 11 , 19 ], and sleep quality [ 20 , 21 ] with inconsistencies existing [ 22 , 23 , 24 ].…”