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ABSTRACT: Introduction: Cardiovascular diseases are creating the major health burden worldwide. Among them coronary heart disease is the major cause of mortality. The changing lifestyle is a contributing to the CHD which could be prevented by modifying the diet such as antioxidant diet. Aim: To study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding antioxidant diet among cardiac patients in the Selected hospitals of Jalandhar, Punjab. Methods: A Quantitative research approach with quasi-experimental non randomized pre-test post-test control group design was used for the study. Total 60 cardiac patients were selected for study 30 were taken as experimental group and 30 as control group using non-probability purposive sampling technique. The self-structured knowledge questionnaire was used to assess pre-test knowledge and after providing structured teaching programme the post-test was conducted on 7th day using same tool for assessing knowledge regarding Antioxidant diet. Results: Finding revealed that the comparison of pretest and post-test knowledge score of cardiac patients among experimental and control group. In the control group, there was no significant (tcal 12.914 at p<0.05) difference between pretest and post-test knowledge score of cardiac patients. There was significant (tcal 12.914 at p<0.05) difference between pretest and post test knowledge score of cardiac patients in the experimental group significance. Conclusion: The study concluded that structured teaching programme had significant influence on improving knowledge of cardiac patients regarding antioxidant diet.