A study to assess the knowledge on shaken baby syndrome among health workers and care givers of under 2 year’s children in the selected hospital of Uttara Kannada with view to impart health education

Shaken baby syndrome is a serious brain injury, resulting from forcefully shaking an infant or toddler. It’s also known as abusive head trauma, shaken impact syndrome, inflicted injury whiplash syndrome. A descriptive design was used for this study. 100 samples were selected by purposive sampling method. Data collected the structured questionnaire which designed to assess knowledge regarding The data analyzed using statistics. findings revealed that mean score of health workers 13.92 and care givers 12.28 in Ankola.Result: This study reveals 14% had good knowledge, 64% average 22% poor 28% 8% on Conclusion: overall there among Ankola.