A Pre Experimental Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Osteoporosis among Menopausal Women in Selected Community Areas of District Amritsar, Punjab

Menopause is a natural life phase. Menopause is as important to the female life cycle as menstruation and pregnancy, which has always been misunderstood in our culture. Just as menstruation begins to signify the transformation of a woman from a girl to a woman, menopause means the transfer of a woman from a wise woman to a wise elder. A womans body begins to prepare for menopause at the age of forty. As many smart women have found out, this is much more than the physical change from childhood to free childhood. AIM The aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding osteoporosis among menopausal women in selected community areas of District Amritsar, Punjab. METHODS A pre experimental study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding osteoporosis among menopausal women. A total of 60 menopausal were selected using convenient sampling technique. Data were collected through self structured questionnaire. The pre test was performed and structured teaching programme was executed following the post test. RESULTS The study results found that 48.3 had good knowledge, 45 had average knowledge, while just 6.7 had excellent knowledge regarding osteoporosis among menopausal women. Post test scores 41.7 women had good knowledge, while 36.7 had excellent knowledge, and 21.7 had average knowledge regarding osteoporosis among menopausal women. The mean distance is 7,583. The computed t value is 7,086, p value 0.001, highly significant at 1 . This shows that the structured teaching programme is effective in increasing the knowledge of menopause women about osteoporosis. In addition, association of socio demographic variables education status p=0.005 , and dietary patterns p=0.044 , were shown to be significant at 5 . CONCLUSIONS The study concluded that structured teaching programme had significant effect on knowledge of menopausal women in community regarding prevention of osteoporosis. Kaur Charanjit | Kaur Satinder | Kaur Harjinderpal "A Pre-Experimental Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Osteoporosis among Menopausal Women in Selected Community Areas of District Amritsar, Punjab" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-9 | Issue-5 , October 2025, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd97648.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/medicine/other/97648/a-preexperimental-study-to-assess-the-effectiveness-of-structured-teaching-programme-on-knowledge-regarding-osteoporosis-among-menopausal-women-in-selected-community-areas-of-district-amritsar-punjab/kaur-charanjit