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The study aimed at assessing the effectiveness of Wellness Tutelage on knowledge, attitude and willingness to change healthy lifestyles among adolescents.Background: lifestyle diseases is the most common reason for today's death. Lifestyle and behaviors during adolescents have life-long consequences to the health and onset of lifestyle diseases in later life. Adolescents phase establish patterns of behavior lifestyle in healthy way. Aim and objective: To assess the effectiveness of Wellness Tutelage on knowledge, attitude and willingness to change among adolescents. Methodology: Quantitative approach, quasi experimental non- equivalent control group pretest, posttest research design was adopted to assess the effectiveness of Wellness Tutelage among 60adolescents at selected communities in Vellore. Probability convenient sampling technique was used to select the samples. Wellness Tutelage was administered and level of knowledge, attitude and willingness to change was assessed by using structured knowledge questionnaire, four point likert scale and structured rating scale for both the experimental and control group. Results: The findings of the study revealed that the calculated student paired "t" value for the post test level of knowledge among experimental group adolescents was t=7.86, for attitude t=10.84 and for willingness to change t=4.58 which showed that a very high statistical significance at p<0.001 level. Conclusion: The results revealed that Wellness Tutelage was effective in improving knowledge, attitude and willingness to change among adolescents which can enhance their healthy lifestyle in their day today life.