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  • Menopause is natural occurrence to the women. It is also accomplished fact. However, some women still understand yet with the menopause one. It includes physiological change or psychological change which happens after menopause. This research paper aims at knowing the influence of health education toward the women’s knowledge and attitude facing menopause. This research method is pre experiment with pre test design and post test one group design. This research sampling amount to 41 mothers who be more than 35years old at Posyandu Aisiyah Pucangan and Posyandu Mawar Pabelan Kartasura which is determined by technique sampling - total sampling. The treatment is giving health education by using lecture method. Measuring of knowledge and attitude is done before and after treatment. The instrument which is used in this research is questioner. Technique of analyzing data is paired sample t-test. The research finding shows the average value of knowledge’s pre-test is 10.27 and knowledge’s post-test is 11.73. Besides, the average value of attitude’s pre-test is 57.02 and attitude’s post-test is 60.29. Scoring knowledge and attitude of analyzing data shows p value 0.000 where p < 0.05, Ho is rejected. The conclusion of this research is having influence between health education toward the women’s knowledge and attitude facing menopause at Posyandu Aisiyah Pucangan and Posyandu Mawar Indah Pabelan Kartasura. Keywords : Health education, Knowledge, Attitude, Menopause