Background: Human scabies is a highly contagious and intensely pruritic skin infestation caused by Sarcoptes scabiei var hominis. It is commonly seen in individuals with close physical contact, such as children, mothers, young adults, and the elderly in nursing homes. Health education plays a crucial role in preventing and managing scabies by promoting awareness and personal protective measures.

Objective: This study to evaluate effectiveness of video assisted teaching program regarding the prevention and management of scabies among students of selected residential school at Kolar.

Methods: An evaluative approach was adopted for this study as it aimed to determine the experimental study to assess the effectiveness of video assisted teaching program regarding the prevention and management of scabies among students of selected residential school at Kolar. A quasi experimental one group pretest posttest design was adopted for the present study. A Structured Questionnaire was developed to collect the baseline data and to assess knowledge level. The validity of the tool was done by experts. School students in a selected residential school of Kolar were selected by using simple random sampling technique. Video assisted teaching was provided for a period of 30 mts. Pre-test and post-test knowledge scores were obtained. The data obtained were analyzed and interpreted using descriptive and inferential statistics.

Results: Analysis of the level of knowledge among school students shows that that 52(86.67%) students had inadequate knowledge in pre-test whereas none had inadequate knowledge in post-test. 8(13.33%) students had moderate knowledge in pre-test and 21(35%) had moderate knowledge in post-test. No one had adequate knowledge in pre-test whereas 39(65%) had adequate knowledge in post-test. In the pre-test mean + SD of the was 18.016+1.97 whereas in post-test it was 22.067+4.85 and the calculated paired‘t’ value was -24.123 and it was significant at less than 0.05 level. Hence it is concluded that there is significant gain in knowledge of students through video assisted teaching program regarding prevention and management of scabies. Analysis of association between the pretest knowledge scores and selected baseline variables was done by using Chi square test. No statistically significant association was found between pretest knowledge score and baseline variables.