Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Abstract menopause is a physiologic period in women life especially in aged 40-65. women in menopause period will have certain exchanges such as hormonal exchange which causing disturbance of menstrual cycle come to full stop, arise of physical sigh (vasomotor), psychical/emotional sigh, sigh on reproduction organ and another organ which have dangerous long time effect if it is not prevent early. the purpose of this research was to know the differences knowledge between woman in fertile age and women in menopause age and also described of act and behavior of women in menopause age to menopause in darussalam sub district, aceh besar regency. the type of this research was descriptive analytic method with cross sectional survey device. sample intake was conducted by simple random (simple random sampling) and got 50 persons of women in fertile age respondent and 50 women in menopause age respondent to check. collecting data was conducted by direct interview based on questioner which had validity and reliability test. data analyzed use table of frequency, cross tabulation, chi-square and mann-whitney test. the result of this research was there were differences between women in fertile age and women in menopause age in darussalam sub district where 26 respondent (56%) of women in fertile age had very well knowledge while most women in menopause age had enough knowledge as much 18 persons (36%). the act of women in menopause age to menopause was bad that is 33 persons (66%). nevertheless, every woman remains to have counseling about menopause flatly. it will form good act and behavior in face of their menopause period. keywords : menopause, knowledge, act, behavior.