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Abstract: Pressure ulcers are the most common condition among palliative care patients at home care facilities and imposes significant Burdon on patients, relatives and caregivers. When the caregivers are knowledgeable about preventing pressure ulcers it will helps to avoid lot of discomforts for the patients. They place a vital role in preventing pressure ulcers. The Objectives of the present study was to evaluate the effect of planned health teaching programme on knowledge regarding care of pressure sore among caregivers of home-based palliative care patients. Quantitative research approach, pre experimental one group pre-test post-test design was adopted for the study. 30 caregivers are selected from different wards of Chalakudy Municipality by Purposive sampling technique. Analysis done by descriptive and inferential statistics. The result shows that mean posttest knowledge score (19.62) was highlysignificant than pretest knowledge score (13.65). The calculated t value (t=9.622) was higher than the table value (t=2.05) at 0.05 level of significance. Hence the findings of the study revealed that the planned health teaching programme was effective in improving the knowledge of caregivers of home-based palliative care patients