“…Patients may have a poor understanding of the perceived risk, severity, susceptibility, and lack of motivation of complications related to poor compliance towards clinicians’ counseling [ 29 , 33 ]. Physician or clinician lifestyle and patient-clinician relations also influenced the type of counseling towards their patients, this leads to improper utilization of counseling [ 34 , 35 ]. Therefore, the clinician should consider tailored, patient-centered, and comprehensive counseling for hypertensive patients for modifiable behavioral risk factors.…”