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Preterm birth can be stressful and traumatic for mothers and can have negative consequences for the natural establishment of the mother-infant relationship, affecting the mother's psychological state, bonding, and interactions with her baby. The NICU environment disrupts the mother's involvement in infant care and jeopardizes the attachment process between parents and baby. Mothers play an important role in infant care, and positive interactions between mother and preterm infant at an early age have been shown to be associated with better cognitive outcomes, and thus maternal involvement appears to have a very positive effect. The aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of kangaroo mother care on reduction of anxiety level among the postnatal mothers whose baby admitted in NICU. Methods : Pre-experimental one group pre-test post-test design was used to effect of structured teaching program on risk of post-natal anxiety on mothers of NICU baby at tertiary care hospital regarding kangaroo mother care. The sample size is 100 mothers of NICU babies at tertiary care hospital. The sampling technique used in this study was non probability - convenient sampling technique. The Hamilton's Anxiety Scale a standardized tool was used for data collection. The data collection was carried out in three phases and the data was analyzed by using the descriptive and inferential statistics. Result : The study result depicted that in pre test 97% of mothers had severe anxiety score and from post-test 85% of them had moderate anxiety scores and 15% of the respondents had mild anxiety scores. the pre test the mean of the anxiety score obtained by the sample was 34.89 and in the post test it reduced to 18.38. t value was calculated to analyze the difference in pre-test and post-test anxiety score of mothers of NICU baby before and after giving structured teaching programme. Highly significant difference was found between pre and post-test anxiety scores (t = 43.091). Conclusion : The present study concluded that the Structured teaching programme was effective in reducing post-natal anxiety among mothers of NICU baby at tertiary care hospital.