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Background: Suicide is a type of deliberate self-harm (DSH) and is defined as a human act of self-intentioned and self - inflected cessation (death). Most often it ends with a fatal outcome. Removing suicide from the category of sin and crime, it was considered a psychiatric illness only from 19th century. Suicide was not discovered to be disease; it was declared to be one.1 Objectives: To assess the knowledge on suicidal prevention among parents of adolescents before and after structured teaching programme. To assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge of suicidal prevention among parents of adolescents. Methods: The data was generated by using structured questionnaire. Non probability convenient sampling was adopted to select 60 subjects. The data was obtained from the study subjects were analyzed and interpreted in terms of the objectives and hypothesis of the study. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for the data analysis and the P value set at 0.05 levels. RESULTS: The results from the study subjects from Jhalawar Rural community. Rajasthan was obtained. The mean post test score was 32.85 was higher than the mean pretest score 12.31. The compute 't' value is 16.86(P<=0.001), indicates that there was significant association between the pre-test knowledge scores and the selected demographic variable, (Age in years) (P<=0.05). CONCLUSION: This study revealed that the knowledge of parents of adolescents regarding suicidal prevention was inadequate and was increased after the administration of structured teaching programme. Thus, the hypothesis was accepted.