Objectives: The study investigated factors associated with attitude towards sex-role, self-image and marital satisfaction on psychological health status, perception of menopause and sexual satisfaction in climacteric women in Ibadan, Nigeria.


Subjects and methods: 45 female participants were randomly selected from Ibadan. The mean age was 51.42 + 8.05 years (range = 36 - 70 years). The mean age for the 13 non-menopausal women was 42.79 + 3. 91years (range = 42 - 47 years) while the mean age for the 32 menopausal women was 5.16 + 6.08 years (range = 47 - 70 years). The mean age of the children of the participants was 16.05 + 8.09 years (range = 1- 36 years). A questionnaire having several subsections (consisting of the psychological health status of women in the climacteric, attitude towards sex role, perception of menopause, social support, marital satisfaction, self-image and sexuality scales was used for the assessment.


Results: Post-Menopausal women reported better psychological health compared to the pre-menopausal women (t = 1.86, p