فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Background: Appropriate understanding of women that certain physical, mental, social andpsychological changes occur during menopause helps them with greater readiness to cope withthese changes. In all training programs to identify and analyze perceptions of the subjects is a keycomponent. The purpose of this study was to investigate the knowledge and attitude of womentoward the menopause phenomenon. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study wasconducted on 400 healthy and non-menopaused women aged 40–45 years. The stratified samplingmethod was used and participation in this study was based on obtaining informed consent. Thedata collection instrument was a questionnaire consisting of three parts: demographic information,questions to assess knowledge and attitude investigation questions. Findings: The results showedthat the average knowledge score of subjects was 63.57 ± 10.79, and their average attitude scorewas 61.21 ± 12.73. In this study, 8% of the subjects had poor knowledge, 68% had moderateknowledge and 38.5% had good knowledge. Meanwhile, 81.5% of the women had a positive attitudetoward menopause. The correlation test showed that knowledge and attitude are meaningfullyrelated to economic status and education level. But, the relationship between knowledge andattitudes of women under study was not significant. Conclusion: Identifying the quality of women’ssubjective perception of menopause has an essential role in the development of accurate andappropriate programs to promote women’s health during menopausal years.