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FACTORS RELATED TO THE INCIDENCE OF MENOPAUSE Meidriana Savitri Madyananda, Dewi Puspita*) Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta Email: dpuspita499@gmail.com *)coresponding author Abstract Background: A woman who gets older then will normally experience menopause. Menopause is affected by several factors and it is related to the global phenomenon which shows that the average age of menopausal women in various parts of the world lately becomes faster. Research Purposes: This study aimed to investigate the correlation between age of menarche, the last delivery age, and parity number with the occurrence of menopause. Research Methods: This study used a quantitative method with cross sectional. The sample in this study amounted to 40 women aged 45-55 years old who had stopped menstruating for 1 year. Results: The result of this study shows that the correlation between menopause with the age of menarche is obtained p value = 0,288 (p> 0,05), menopause with the last delivery age is obtained p value = 0,246 (p> 0,05), and menopause with parity number is obtained p value = 0,025 (p <0.05). Conclusion: There are no correlation between the age of menarche, the last delivery age to the incidence of menopause. There is a positive correlation between the number of parity and the occurrence of menopause.