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Background: Life is a precious gift by god and it should be handled with care. Nursing professions is one of the main professions responsible for the care, to care the life of people by providing preventive, curative, promotive, restorative and rehabilitative care. Children are major consumers of health care. They are not only large in number but also vulnerable to various health problems and considered as special risk group. Children always need that special care to live and succeed. 2 Of the distraction methods used during Preschool age, audio-visual distraction is the more effective it is a easy, labor saving and easy to provide therapy that relieves pain and distress in children during painful procedures as similarly as and efficiently as common psychological interventions.2 Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of audio visual distraction on pain among children undergoing venipuncture in pediatric ward of selected hospitals. Methodology: a quasi experimental post test only control group design was adopted for the study. It was conducted over 60 pediatric (pre schooler age) patients and was selected by using Non probability purposive sampling technique and quota sampling techniques. Audio visual distraction therapy provided to pre schooler child before 5 minutes and during procedure and after the procedures for 5 minutes. Result: The study reveals that, In Experimental group (Group I) the mean score is 3.70 and standard deviation is 2.15 whereas, in Control group (Group II) the mean score is 7.83 and standard deviation is 1.48. The tabulated value for n=60 degree of freedom is 2.00. The calculated chi square value is 31.29. The calculated x2 value is higher than tabulated value at 5% level of significance which is statistically acceptable level of significance. Hence the research hypothesis H1 is accepted and null hypothesis H0 is rejected. Thus, it is statistically interpreted that there is a significant difference between mean pain score of patients who receive Audio visual distraction. , it shows that Audio visual distraction is more effective for reducing intensity of pain among preschoolers receiving venipuncture. Conclusion: The significantly association was found on pain score with age (in years), none of the other demographic variables were associated with pain score.