The menopause is a period of woman’s life when somatic and psychological changes on hormonal basis occur. As a result of it, social functioning may be disturbed, too.

The occurring set of disadvantageous symptoms reduces the quality of a woman’s life in a significant way.

Among a number of ways of coping with the menopause burdens the Hormone Replacement Therapy (HTR) is taken under consideration. The contemporary medicine accepts the widespread HRT in the treatment of acute symptoms of an early phase of the menopause as well as in the prophylactic treatment for women after the menopause.

The paper discusses the methodical assumptions of the authorial educational programme (N. Gozdek) devoted to HRT. The major aim of the programme was to prepare women for making conscious and right choices to counteract unfavorable effects of the menopause and long-term health consequences resulting from hormonal deficiency.

The programme was conducted with patients on an individual basis in 2002; the educators’ attitudes to HRT were neutral and they used the scientifically confirmed data.

The programme included 148 women up to 40 years of age.

The direct effectiveness of the programme was assessed on the basis of the comparative analysis of the attitudes of women to HRT before and after the programme. The positive attitudes to HRT significantly increased from 43.8% to 83.7%; the neutral attitudes decreased from 31.1% to 5.4% while the negative ones from 25.2% to 10.8%. Moreover, the relations between attitudes to HRT and age, education, marital status and financial conditions were examined.