ABSTRACT
The menopause research literature has come under considerable criticism. Three of Voda and George’s suggestions for improving menopausal research include: critical examination of instruments used to study the totality of the menopausal experience; specificity in definition of temporal aspects of the premenopause, perimenopause, and postmenopause; and studies designed so research on menopause does not continue to promote human reductionism based on the assumption that menopause is a disease. Two major problems with the dyadic adjustment scale were that the scaling of items is different throughout and highly weighted on the disagree end of the continuum. A major problem with the attitudes toward menopause is the interchanging of the terms menopause and change of life. Rating a life event as having “no effect” versus some effect confused the subjects, since they were also asked to rate the event as positive or negative.
