AbstractThe present study has been designed to enhance the knowledge of postmenopausal women about lifestyle modifications. An evaluative research approach and quasi experimental one group pre test post test design was adopted to conduct this study. The study was conducted in selecte drural areas, Tirupati. Stratified probability proportionate sampling method was used to select the sample. Questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge following which structured teaching programme was carried out with the help of flexies prepared by the investigator. The results revealed that there was a significant difference between pre and post test knowledge scores of postmenopausal women on Lifestyle modifications. The pre test mean 13 and the post test mean is 20.8. Paired ‘t’ test values shows that it was found to be invariably significant at p <0.01 level in all areas of knowledge including overall knowledge on Lifestyle modifications. It was found effective in improving the knowledge. A significant association was present between the knowledge and demographic variables such as age with the c2 value 7.04, which is significant at the level of 0.05 and education with the c2 value 30.96, which is significant at the level of 0.001 in pre test, where as in post test knowledge scores and demographic variables such as education with the c2 value of 36.9, which is significant at the level of 0.001 and religion with the c2 value of 3.5, which is significant at 0.005.
Keywords: Effectiveness; Postmenopausal women; Lifestyle modifications.