Hypertension is a chronic disease and requires continued compliance to medication for its control. Health education has been used in many health-illness interventions. This strategy is meant to help improve positive attitude towards compliance to medications but in a community where BP apparatus is not commonly available, or accessible, perhaps providing this resources while encouraging their visit to the health center and be checked on compliance as well might prove as an effective platform to ensure compliance of patients to medication. This research study aimed to determine the effect of lecture-based intervention on the compliance of hypertensive clients to the recommended BP monitoring schedule based on the British Hypertension Society (BHS) Guidelines in selected barangays of Alicia, Zamboanga Sibugay Province. A total of 50 respondents were divided into 2 grades of hypertension based on the BHS classification. There were 34 with Grade 1 and 16 with Grade 2 hypertension. Compliance was assessed through the hypertensive client s attendance to the recommended BP monitoring schedule depending on their BP levels. Based on the recommendation of the BHS, Grade 1 hypertensive clients must have monthly BP monitoring while Grade 2 hypertensives will have it weekly. In this study, Grade 1 hypertensives are more compliant than Grade 2. The increase in awareness, strengthening of positive attitudes, and putting these into active practices regarding hypertension through practical ways may have influenced the compliance of hypertensive clients on their given BP monitoring.

Keyword: lecture-based intervention monitoring hypertension blood pressure alicia zamboanga Sibugay Province