Abstract
This research has been conducted to investigate the menopausal period women’s marital adjustments and the factors affecting this situation. The sample of this descriptive study is composed of women, who; applied to a family health center in the Eastern Anatolia Region, had been in menopause for at least one year and were married, (n = 204). The data were collected with Personal Information Form and the Marital Adjustment Test. The scores obtained from the Marital Adjustment Test increases from disagreement to agreement and the cut-off score is 43.5. Data were analyzed by number and percentage distribution, independent samples t test and one-way analysis of variance. p<0.05 has been accepted as significant. The mean age of women is 56.23±7.79. The mean score of the Marital Adjustment Test is 36.16±7.38, the mean score of the agreement-disagreement subscale is 28.56±6.11, and the mean of the relationship style score is 7.59±2.56. 84.3% of the women's Marital Adjustment Test scores are below the cut-off point of the scale. It has been detected that, 38.7% of the participants were rarely unhappy and only 28.6% were happy. The Marital Adjustment Test total scores, agreement-disagreement and relationship style scores of women who were aged between 51-60 years, perceived their income status as poor, perceived their communication with their spouse as moderate level, had been married for 31 years and more are statistically significantly lower (p<0.05). In general, marital adjustments of women have been obtained to be low and almost half of them stated that they were unhappy. Age, income status, communication with spouse and duration of marriage affect the marital adjustment in menopause.