“…In the CKD literature, there have been 14 studies informed by SCT. These studies have been conducted in the U.S. (Curtin et al, 2008;Patterson, Umstattd Meyer, Beaujean, & Bowden, 2014;Wells & Anderson, 2011), Netherlands (Wierdsma et al, 2011), U.K. (Boothby & Salmon, 2013;Byrne et al, 2011;Clarke et al, 2015), Philippines (Balaga, 2012), Japan (Joboshi & Oka, 2016;Kazawa & Moriyama, 2013), Taiwan (Tsay & Healstead, 2002;Tsay, 2003;Weng et al, 2010), andIran (Moattari, Ebrahimi, Sharifi, &Rouzbeh, 2012). Six studies involved an intervention and the remaining studies were descriptive studies.…”