A husband's good role in caring for his wife's reproductive health can reduce complaints about family reproductive function during menopause

Abstract

During menopause, women will experience feelings of anxiety, irritability, tension, restlessness, feelings of depression, laziness, sadness, feeling helpless, crying easily, forgetting easily, and emotional outbursts. Most women feel anxious when facing menopause, so many simple problems become big things and can even make women despair when facing menopause. The severity of psychological changes experienced by women during menopause is caused by poor experiences in dealing with menopause. Apart from that, poor husband support influences psychological changes. The husband does not help deal with all the problems that occur during menopause, the husband does not help the mother to always look after herself, her health and pay attention to her health condition.

The research design is analytical observation with a cross-sectional approach. The population and sample in this study were 102 menopausal women who had husbands in Jambangan District, Surabaya. The sampling technique was total sampling.  The measuring instrument used for these two variables was a questionnaire with open questions about the husband's role in reproductive health maintenance behavior which had gone through validity and reliability tests, then the results of the research were statistically tested using the Rank Spearmen test.

The results of statistical analysis using the rank spearmen test showed a p-value: 0.000, meaning there was a relationship between the husband's role and reproductive health care behavior during menopause in terms of the family's reproductive function.