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    Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Associated Factors of Menopausal Women (aged 40 years and above) toward Menopause in Bole and Lugo sub City of Adama town, Oromia Regional State, Central Ethiopia, april to may 2018.
    (Addis Ababa University, 2018-06) Abdela Mujib; Aseffa Yeshi (MSc)
    Background: Appropriate understanding of the menopausal phenomenon regarding physical,mental, social and psychological changes that occur during menopause will help women to cop up with menopausal changes and highly influence the outcomes. In Ethiopia, health policies and programs provide much concern on women's health promotion but less emphasized on post reproductive health of women and no studies conducted on assessing women's knowledge, attitude and associated factors of women towards menopause on selected study area. Objective: Assessment of knowledge, attitude and associated factors of menopausal women (aged 40 and above) toward menopause in Bole and Lugo sub city of Adama town, oromia regional state, central Ethiopia, April to May 2018. Methods: Cross-sectional community based study was used on sample of 278 women aged 40 years and above in Bole and Lugo sub city of Adama town Using systematic random sampling method. The Data was collected using interviewer-administered questionnaires and analysis of the data made using SPSS version 24. Result. Complete information from 278 out of 290 study participants was collected with response rate of 96%. The mean age for menopause was 46±2.185 years. Only 20.9% had good knowledge on menopause, Educational status and menopausal stage found significantly associated with the knowledge level of the women (p < 0.021 & 0.015 at 95% CI (0.76-0.158, 1.992-3.064 respectively)). Only 6.1% of them heard about menopause from health care provider. More than half, 65.8% had positive attitude toward menopause and 34.2% had negative attitude. Conclusions and recommendations: knowledge of women towards menopause was found moderate, but not good. Majority of them had positive attitude, menopausal stage and age at menarche significantly associated with the attitude of the women. The number of women received information about menopause from health care provider was very few (6%). Federal Ministry of health, Oromia regional state health berau and the mass media should disseminate appropriate information concerning menopause symptoms to improve the knowledge and perception of the women regarding menopause.