upper respiratory tract infections are the major causes for mortality and morbidity under 3 years of children. in worldwide statistics when we take every year 3.9 million deaths of toddler due to upper respiratory tract infections where as in India 15-20% of toddler admission to the hospital is due to upper respiratory tract infection the aim of the present study is to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme for mothers of toddler on prevention of upper respiratory tract

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... ion. Objectives of the study is to assess the knowledge of the mothers in prevention of upper respiratory tract infection, to determine the effectiveness of structured teaching program regarding upper respiratory tract infection and to find out the association between selected demographic variable with knowledge regarding prevention of upper respiratory tract infection. Method: one group pretest posttest quasi experimental design was selected for the study. The participants were 60 mothers of toddler were included using simple random sampling from a selected hospital at Bangalore. Questionnaire is used to collect data from the subjects and the obtained data was analyzed using descriptive, inferential statistics and interpreted in terms of objectives of the study. The level of significance was set at 0.05 levels. Results: In the pre-test the subjects had inadequate knowledge with a mean of 29.25% and standard deviation of 2.26 where as in posttest there was a significant mean knowledge gain of 77.77% and standard deviation of 1.68. The chi-square test revealed that there was a significant association of knowledge with selected demographic variables such as occupation, family income and any previous exposure to the knowledge on URT infection. Conclusion: The present study proved that the structured teaching program was significantly effective in improving the knowledge of mothers of toddler on prevention of upper respiratory tract infection. Hence the study concluded that improve the knowledge on management of upper respiratory tract infection helps to provide care, to safeguard the children and to prevent further complication.