Effectiveness of self care intervention on medication adherence among hypertensive adults residing in Palam area of Delhi.

The self-care package is a structured intervention designed to empower hypertensive patients to actively participate in the management of their illness. It is based on the WHO Package of Essential Noncommunicable (PEN) Disease framework and tailored to the local context. Although several national and international studies have evaluated educational or counseling-based interventions to improve medication adherence among hypertensive patients, there is still a paucity of research that integrates structured self-care interventions combining health education, motivational interviewing, and self-monitoring skills tailored to local sociocultural contexts. Most available studies in India have been conducted in tertiary care or hospital-based settings, with limited community-based evidence. Furthermore, there is a dearth of studies from Delhi, particularly in urban field practice areas like Palam, assessing the effectiveness of such comprehensive self-care interventions on medication adherence. This highlights the need for the present study.