Availableonlineat https://ejournal.unisayogya.ac.id/ejournal/index.php/ijhst 48 International Journal of Health Science and Technology, 2 (3), 2021, 48-53 DOI: 10.31101/ijhst.v2i3.1959 This is an open access article under the CC–BY-SA license. Stress Triggers Dysmenorrhea In The Final Year Female Students Putri Yuliantie 1,* , Nidatul Khofiyah 2 , Luluk Rosida 3 1,2,3 Universitas ‘Aisyiyah Yogyakarta, Jalan Ringroad Barat No.63 Nogotirto Gamping Sleman, Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta 55592, Indonesia * corresponding author 1 putriyuliantie15@gmail.com*, 2 nidatulkhofiyah@unisayogya.ac.id, 3 lulurosida@unisayogya.ac.id Submission date: 26 November 2020, Receipt date: 12 Februari 2021, Publication date: 1 April 2021 Abstract The reproductive health of womenis an essential component, several problems that can occur in the reproductive health of women, one of which is menstrual pain, this complaint is affected by psychological conditions. As a result, if it is not addressed immediately, it emerges the disruption in the routine and depression. The purpose of this study was tofind out whether stress affects the occurrence of dysmenorrhea on the final year female students. The research method was the observational analytic with cross sectional approach. Sample consisted of 211 respondents, the analysis used was Kendal Tau. The result of the p-value was 0.000 and the contingency coefficient value was 0.378. It indicated that there was relationship between stress and dysmenorrhea in final year female students of Universitas ‘Aisyiyah Yogyakarta. Keywords: dysmenorrhea, pressure, pain, stress INTRODUCTION Dysmenorrhoea is a gynecological disorder that occurs in women of childbearing age. The prevalence of dysmenorrhea is reported from 43% to 90%. Approximately 10-15% of women undergo the dysmenorrhoea that accompanied by the disturbancesthat cannot carry out the activities, thus, it encourages them to stay on the bed which results the absence from school, loss of work time, and decreased quality of life (Wang et al. 2014). The prevalence of dysmenorrhea of 72.89% increases in developing countries. Dysmenorrhea occurs in women that aged 15-30 years, while in Yogyakarta the rate of dysmenorrhea is around 52%, some of the women deal with the dysmenorrhea by taking pain relievers (Sabaruddin 2017). The issue of menstrual pain can have a serious impact if it is ignored continuously, due to it can interfere with daily activities, it encourages women to be restless, and become more serious till depression. Issues that often occur are menstrual cycle irregularities, infertility, and infections caused by dysmenorrhea (Lianawati dan Anjarwati, 2011) . The occurrence of dysmenorrhea in adolescents is considered as natural thing for women so that this problem get less attention from women and society, some women are silent to acceptthis discomfort, women become lethargic, pale, lack of meditation, so that it can cause negative matterson the activity (Khotimah, Kirnantoro, dan Cahyawati, 2014).