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"A study to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme regarding knowledge & home management in reduction of premenopausal symptoms among the women in selected rural areas of Indore M.P". Methods: One group pretest-post test pre-experimental design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of STP regarding menopausal problems and its home manegement of primenopusal symptoms among middle aged women who were selected by puposive sampling method. A structured interview schedule was used to collect data from the study subjects. The tool for the study was validated by7 experts. Reliability was obtained by split half method with y=0.9777. Result: The result fulfill the objective, the result was positive pre-test score mean was 9.32, and post-test mean score was 21.92 and their mean difference was - The SD of pre-test score was 5.36, post test score SD 4.42. Pre-test and post test score was statistically tested by applying t-test at the level of significance 0.05%, calculated t value, thus obtained was 12.80, so the t <0.05%, this indicate that the structured teaching programme was effective regarding home management of primenopausal symptoms in woman's. The association between pre-test knowledge of women regarding knowledge home management of premenopausal symptoms with demographic variables is statistically tested by applying chi-square test. That the computed chi-square value between pre-test knowledge score and the demographic variables i.e. age, educational status, occupation, religion, monthly income of the family, , types of family, age of marriage, age of menarche, previous history of menopausal problem in family and source of prior information, , are indicates that they is no significant for 1 degree of freedom association between pre-test knowledge and demographic variable (p>0.05)