COVID-19 pandemic crisis has been devastating all over the world. Many countries including India has developed the vaccine against this dreaded infectious disease to gain the immunity against corona virus disease. However there is non-acceptance of this drive among the population. There are multiple reason for this non acceptance. The researcher explored the knowledge and practices among the ante-natal and post-natal mothers as this population was found more in number for non-acceptance. Objectives: to assess the knowledge and attitude of antenatal and post-natal mothers about COVID-19 vaccine and evaluate the progress after planned teaching programme and its association. Methodology: Researcher adopted the purposive sampling technique to select the sample and sample size was kept 60, and study conducted in community setup in urban area of Pune city and used Preexperimental one group pretest and posttest design was used. Resultthe study shows marked improvement in the knowledge and attitude of the group after the teaching programme. Improvement in the knowledge level was showing good differences in the mean from 5.6 to 13.4. The effectiveness in attitude was showing 81.7% to 100% improvement. Conclusion: The study result show planned teaching programme has a positive effect on knowledge and Attitude of antenatal and postnatal mothers.

Planned teaching programme, Effectiveness, Knowledge, Attitude, COVID 19 vaccine.