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Descriptive evaluative approach was used. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the hospital and the samples. The samples for present study consisted of male and female patients admitted for minor abdominal surgeries (60 patients). Tool consisted of two sections: Section A: - Demographic variables: - age in years, gender, marital status, educational qualification, occupation, dietary pattern, demographic area, type of surgery. Section B: - Observation checklist aimed at assessing the effectiveness of early ambulation of Daily Living, following ADL were assessed viz: feeding, dressing, grooming, bathing, elimination, Deep Breathing Exercises, communication and sleeping pattern. Activity on post operative abdominal surgery patients in selected hospitals. Content Validity was done by 12 experts, Reliability was done by using inter rater reliability method. Cohen's kappa was found to be 0. 85 The tool was retained as the tool was reliable. Dorothea Orem's Self-care theory was applied. Pilot study was conducted in Moriya Hospital Chinchwad. Informed consent was taken from Medical Superintendent of the Hospital and from each and every sample. from 9/2/2022 to 12/2/2022 on 6 samples of minor abdominal surgery. Final study was conducted at Dr D.Y.Patil Hospital and Research Centre from 17/3/2022 to 29/4/2022 on 60 post operative patients. Objective of the study was discussed and consent for participation in the study was taken from each and every sample. The subjects were assured about the confidentiality of the data. The investigators themself collected the data. Preoperatively Activities of Daily Living were taught each and every patient. Patients with minor surgeries (appendectomy, cholecystectomy, hernia or colon surgery) were selected. On Day 1 post operatively both Activities of Daily Living and ambulation was done twice a day for 10-15 minutes per patient. Activities of Daily Living included range of motion of shoulder joint, elbow, wrist joint, hip joint, knee joint and ankle joint. Early ambulation included walking around the bed, with or without assistive devices. ADL and early ambulation was done in consultation of surgeon. Per day per day 3-4 patients were selected. Data was analysed based on objectives of the study. Descriptive and inferential statistics was done. The mean score was 0.0% for patients who had a poor score (Score 0-5), 33.3% of them had an average ability in performing ADL (Score 6-10), and 66.7% of the patients had a good score (Score 11-16). Hence it can be concluded that early ambulation is highly effective with Activities of Daily Living (ADL) among patients after minor abdominal surgeries. The various findings of the study show that it can be concluded that early ambulation is proven to be effective in decreasing post-operative complications among patients following abdominal surgery.