RESUMO
Menopause complications lead to a reduction in women's life quality, so knowledge about menopause as a natural process in women's life is important on effective control of women's problem in these periods. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate effectiveness of health education on knowledge and attitude toward menopause among health volunteer women in the northern health centers of Tehran. In this quasi-experimental study [Before and After] randomized sampling method was employed, and 90 health volunteers participated from 9 health centers in the northern health centres of Tehran. The data were gathered using a questionnaire [including: demographic information, some questions related to knowledge and attitude]. They were assessed before and also one month after implementation of the educational program. Collected data were analyzed by SPSS [11.5]. The results indicated that 20% of the population had poor knowledge, whereas 62.2% had average level knowledge. Only 17.8% of the health volunteers had acceptable level of knowledge about menopause [symptoms, desired nutrition and regular exercise]. Their attitude toward menopause was undesired too. After the educational program 94.4% of the health volunteers had high knowledge and 88.9% of the sample had positive attitude about menopause. The findings suggest that it is necessary to perform such educational programs for health volunteers in health centers