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Abstract Background: Traumatic brain injury usually results from a violent blow or jolt to the head or body. An object that goes through brain tissue, such as a bullet or shattered piece of skull, also can cause traumatic brain injury. Mild traumatic brain injury may affect your brain cells temporarily. More-serious traumatic brain injury can result in bruising, torn tissues, bleeding and other physical damage to the brain. These injuries can result in long-term complications or death. Traumatic brain injury can have wide-ranging physical and psychological effects. Some signs or symptoms may appear immediately after the traumatic event, while others may appear days or weeks later. Objectives : 1) To assess the pre test knowledge level of staff nurses regarding Traumatic brain injury and its management. 2) To assess the post test knowledge level of staff nurses regarding Traumatic brain injury and its management. 3) To assess the effectiveness of information booklet on knowledge of staff nurses regarding Traumatic brain injury and its management. 4) To determine the association between pre test knowledge of staff nurses regarding Traumatic brain injury and its management and selected demographic variables Hypothesis: H1- There is a significant difference in the pre test and post testknowledge scores of staff nurses regarding Traumatic brain injury and its management. H2- There is a significant association between the pre test knowledge of staff nurses regarding Traumatic brain injury and its management and selected demographic variables at the significance level of 0.05. Methodology: The research design consisted of pre experimental research design of one group pretest and post-test design. The population selected for the study was staff nurses of selected hospitals at Bangalore. The study samples were 60 staff nurses and were selected by using purposive sampling technique. The development of the tool involved steps of test construction i.e. preparing the blue print, selection of items, content validation and establishment of reliability. The content validity of the questionnaire was done and modifications were done according to the suggestions given by the experts. Pre testing and reliability of the tools were done. The reliability co efficient of the knowledge questionnaire was found to be 0.893. The tool was found to be reliable. Results: In the Pre test of knowledge regarding Traumatic brain injury and its management among Staff nurses that the level of knowledge of Staff nurses before providing information booklet. In that Majority 57(95.0%) of the staff nurses. had Inadequate knowledge and 3(5.0%) of the staff nurses had moderately adequate knowledge and there were no staff nurses having adequate knowledge regarding Traumatic brain injury and its management. Where as in post test 47(78.3%) of staff nurses were have adequate knowledge, 7(11.7%) of them have inadequate knowledge and 6(10%) of staff nurses have inadequate knowledge. The mean paired difference in knowledge score was -18.8 with t-value=-22.7 with p-value less than 0.0001. The mean pretest knowledge score was 6.12 and mean post score was 24.8 and the difference in knowledge score was 18.8 with percentage improvement in knowledge was 75.8. Hence information booklet on knowledge regarding Traumatic brain injury and its management among Staff nurses was effective in enhancing their knowledge. The study was concluded that there was a significant improvement obtained following information booklet on Knowledge regarding Traumatic brain injury and its management. This study was recommended that there is an immense need for educational programme to improve the knowledge regarding Traumatic brain injury and its management among staff nurses.