Abstract
Menstrual pain (dysmenorrhoea) is the term for pain during menstruation. As many as 16% of women who experience dysmenorrhoea cannot be treated with analgesic medicine and require work breaks. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between adolescent knowledge about reproductive health and attitudes towards dysmenorrhoea at SMA Negeri 1 Purbalingga. This research was a non-experimental descriptive survey with a cross-sectional design. The sample of this research was 68 female students of class X to XII SMA N 1 Purbalingga which were taken by a simple random sampling technique. The analysis technique used was univariate and bivariate analysis (product moment correlation test) with the help of the SPSS for windows release 11.0 program. Knowledge of teenage girl about reproductive health at SMA Negeri 1 Purbalingga in the good category 26 students (38.2%), 40 students (58.8%) quite good, 1 student (1.5%) not good, and 1 student very poor (1.5%). Attitude towards dysmenorrhoea was mostly in the unfavorable category of 39 female students (57.4%), 24 female students (35.3%) quite good, and 5 female students very poor (7.4%). There is a significant relationship (rcount > rtable) between adolescents' knowledge of reproductive health and attitudes towards dysmenorrhoea with an rcount of 0.408 and it is in the medium category. The conclusion that can be drawn is that there is a significant relationship between young women's knowledge of reproductive health and attitudes towards dysmenorrhea.
 
 
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