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Scope: The study was conducted as a identifying and contact seeking to determine the patient’s conformity to antihypertensive drug treatment and the factors affecting those living in rural areas. Method: The research was a sample of the study, if 183 patients with hypertension who were treated in a study-applicated hospital and were treated with an antihypertensive drug, which meets the universe and the inclusion criteria. In the data collection; the patient’s diagnosis form and the scale of conformity to antihypertensive medication treatment were used. For the evaluation of the data, the Student t test, the One Way Anova test and the Pearson Correlation Analysis were conducted for the study of the relationship between scales. Results: The median score of antihypertensive drug treatment in hypertensive patients is 4.87+1.85. It was found that patients with readers’ level of training had a low adjustment to drug therapy compared to other groups and the difference between them was statistically meaningful (p<0.05). There was no statistically meaningful relationship between the age of patients, the number of medications they used and the year of the disease and the adaptation to antihypertensive medication (p>0.05). The result: Patients have been found to be low in conformity with medication. In this regard, it is recommended that nurses working in institutions that serve patients be informed about the assessment of their conformity to medication treatments, that patients should be regularly trained and provided awareness, taking into account the level of training and individual characteristics of patients. This descriptive and relative study was carried out to determine the adherence and influencing factors to antihypertensive medical therapy of patients living in rural area. Materials and method: Patients hospitalized in a research-application hospital who were at least one antihypertensive medicine constituted the universe and 183 patients with hypertension who met the inclusion criteria constituted the sample of the study. Patient Diagnostic Form and Antihypertensive Drug Compliance Scale were used for data collection. Student t test, One Way ANOVA test and Pearson Correlation Analysis to examine the relationship between the scale were performed for statistical data analysis. Findings: Mean Antihypertensive Drug Compliance Scale score of the patients with hypertension was 4.87+1.85. Literate patients had lower adherence to medical therapy compared to the other groups, being statistically significant (p<0.05). The age, the number of medicines used, years of disease were not significantly related with adherence to Antihypertensive Drug Compliance (p>0.05). Conclusion: It was determined that adherence to the medical therapy to hypertension of patients was low. In this direction, it was recommended to inform the nurses about evaluating adherence to the medical therapy of patients, to regularly educate patients considering their education levels and individual characteristics and to raise awareness. Key words: Hypertension; Drug; Adharence; Nursing