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The mother with selected warning sings during pregnancy, the selected warning signs during pregnancy affects the health of the expectant mother as well as development of the fetus. In order to educate and encourage the antenatal mothers a study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of Structured Teaching Program on knowledge regarding. Objective: i) To assess the knowledge of warning signs among prim gravida women. ii) To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching program on selected warning signs among primigravida women. iii) To find the association between the posttest knowledge score with selected demographic variables. Methodology: The research design used in the study was pre-experimental one group pre- test and post-test design. Purposive sampling technique was used to draw sample. The data was collected from 60 primigravida women using the structured knowledge questionnaire. Pre-test was conducted followed by implementation of structured Teaching Programme (STP) and post-test was administered after 7 days using the same questionnaire to find out the effectiveness of STP. Results: In the present study 10 demographic variables were taken into consideration. The study result shows that, 75% of the Respondents were in the age groups of 21 - 30 years. Based on Religion Majority (65%) of the Respondents belongs to Hindu religion. Most (72%) of the Respondents were attained PUC.73% of Respondents were Housewife.53% of respondents were having Annual income of Rs. 5001- 20,000. Majority (38%) Respondents dietary pattern were mixed. Majority 62% of subject's do mild physical activity. Majority (78%) of respondents belongs to nuclear family. Majority73% of the Respondents were from rural area. All the Respondents (100%) had not received any health information on selected warning signs on primigravida mother. On comparison of pre-test and post-test knowledge scores, the mean percent of pre-test knowledge score was 40.7 percent and posttest knowledge score was 51.3 percent with 17.6 percent knowledge enhancement score. The statistical paired - 't' test indicates enhancement in the mean percentage knowledge score was found significant at 0.05level for all aspects under study. With regard to association of demographic variables with pre-test knowledge demographic variables i.e. type of family, education, family income, Age group, and there is no significant association with selected demographic variables i.e. age group, residence, religion, Source of information at 0.056 level(P<0.05). Conclusion: The overall findings of the study clearly showed that the structured Teaching programme was significantly effective in improving the knowledge regarding selected warning signs in pregnancy among primigravida women