Background and Objectives: Cardiovascular diseases caused 2.3million deaths in India in the year 1990; this is projected to double by theyear 2020. Hypertension is directly responsible for 57% of all stroke deathsand 24% of all coronary heart disease deaths in India. Nurses are faced

with a profound urgency to enhance public and professional educationtowards this end and to translate the results of search into improvedpractice. With this intention the present study attempts to assess the impactof health education related to prevention of stroke associated with

hypertension among the inpatients of district hospital, Chitradurga.

Methods: Evaluative research approach and pre–experimental designwas used. Non probability purposive sampling technique was used to selectthe sample that is 50 adults at government hospital chitradurga. The toolused is structured knowledge questionnaire.

Results: The Pre–test knowledge score obtained by the patients was17.1(58%) After administering health education post test mean knowledgescore increased to 25.3(84%) which evidenced that the developed healtheducation was effective in increasing the knowledge of hypertensivepatients. Hence the research hypothesis stated that there is significantdifference between the pre– and post–test knowledge scores of hypertensivepatients regarding stroke prevention was accepted.

Interpretation and Conclusion:The present study attempted toassess the effectiveness of health education on knowledge of hypertensivepatients regarding stroke prevention found that the developed healtheducation was effective in improving the knowledge of hypertensivepatients regarding stroke prevention associated with hypertension.