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Abstract Background of study:-"a study to assess the effectiveness of health education on knowledge regarding menopausal managment among womens in selected area."Purpose:-the purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of health education on knowledge regarding menopausal managment among womens in selected area. Methodology:a qualitative was used with one group pre-test post-test design to evaluate the effectiveness of the health teaching on menopausal management among women. the study was conducted in selected area (phule nagar, pimpri). the sample composed of 100 women's of selected area. the sampling technique used in this study was non probability purposive method of sampling. a structured knowledge questionnaire on menopausal management used for data collection.health teaching on menopausal management was developed by the investigator. the content validity of the tool and health teaching was established by nine experts against the criteria checklist based on suggestions of the experts the final draft of tool and health teaching was prepared. reliability of the tool was tested by using test-retest method. the questionnaire was found to be reliable. a pilot study was conducted on a small sample of ten women's.in the data gathering process, a pretest was administered first to assess knowledge of the samples. on first day health teaching was administered. on the seventh day post-test was administered using the same questionnaire to assess knowledge after health teaching.the data collected was analyzed in terms of frequency, percentages, chi-square test was done, and presented in the form of table and graph. Findings of the study:section i: description of samples based on their personal characteristics description of samples based on their personal characteristics in terms of frequency and percentage.section-ii: analysis of data related to knowledge of women regarding menopausal management.table 2: knowledge of women regarding menopausal management.20% of women's had adequate knowledge (score 12-19), and 30% of women had moderatelyadequate knowledge (score 6-12),50% of women had inadequate knowledge (score 0-6)regarding menopausal management.section-iii: analysis of data related to the effectiveness of health teaching on menopausal management.table 3: effectiveness of health teaching on menopausal management.in pre-test, 20% of women's had adequate knowledge (score 12-19), and 30% of women had moderately adequate knowledge (score 6-12),50% of women had inadequate knowledge (score 0-6) regarding menopausal management. in post-test, 60% of women's have adequate knowledge (score 12-19), and 30% of women had moderately adequate knowledge (score 6-12),10% of women had inadequate knowledge (score 0-6) regarding menopausal management. this indicates that the knowledge among women regarding menopausal management had improved remarkably after health teaching.section-iv: analysis related to association of the knowledge of women's regarding menopausal management with selected demographic variable.table 4: chi square test for the association of the knowledge among women's regarding menopausal management with selected demographic variables.chi-square test for association of menopausal management among women's with selected demographic variables.since all the p-values are larger (greater than 0.05), none of the demographic variables was found to have significant association with the menopausal management among women.