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Dysmenorrhea is a painful menstruation that is characterized by pain that occurs shortly before the onset or during the menstrual flow persisting for one to several days during the menstruation. Dysmenorrhea (period pain) affects around three-quarters of adolescent girls under the age of 25 worldwide. An evaluate approach with pre experimental one group pretest posttest design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of self-instructional module on knowledge regarding management of dysmenorrhea among the adolescent girls in selected colleges. The objectives of the study were to assess the knowledge regarding the management of dysmenorrhea among adolescent girls, to evaluate the effectiveness of a self-instructional module on knowledge regarding the management of dysmenorrhea among adolescent girls and to determine the association between pre-test knowledge scores regarding the management of dysmenorrhea among adolescent girls and selected demographic variables. . Total 60 adolescent girls were selected by purposive sampling technique. The data was collected by using structured knowledge questionnaire on management of dysmenorrhea and was analysed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. . The result of the study reveals that during the pretest majority, 54 (90%) adolescent girls had poor knowledge levels and 6 (10%) had moderate knowledge of management of dysmenorrhea. During the post-test majority of 38 (63%) gained excellent knowledge and 22 (37%) got good knowledge. Area-wise analysis of pretest and posttest knowledge of adolescent girls regarding management of dysmenorrhea shows that the overall pretest knowledge mean was 9.33 with a mean percentage of 31% and the posttest knowledge mean was 28 with a mean percentage of 85%. The variables such as age, gender, religion, educational qualification, occupation, marital status, place of residence, type of diet, family history, duration of illness and source of information does not show any significant association.