Abstract

India has a huge population of children. It is the truth to say that children are our future and if that is true, more time and energy should be put into the beginning stages of each child’life. To evaluate effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge of acute respiratory infection among mothers of under five children

Study is conducted using one group pretest post test design on 60 mothers of under five children in the age group of 20 - 45 years.

Results show that the post test knowledge of the mothers of under-five children is greater on comparison to the pre-test results.

Key words: Respiratory Infections, Under-five children.