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Primary dysmenorrhea is a common gynecological disorder among adolescents females without pathological abnormalities. Primary dysmenorrhea usually begins two days before menstruation or during menstruation and lasts up to 48-72 hours. This is due to high levels of prostaglandins that cause contraction in the myometrium. The incidence of dysmenorrhea in Indonesia is 64.25%, which 54.89% has primary dysmenorrhea while 9.36% has secondary dysmenorrhea. In principle there are two therapies for treatment of primary dysmenorrhea that is pharmacological and non-pharmacological. Cow milk is a food that containing high calcium and can be used as one of the non-pharmacological therapy to reduce pain intensity of primary dysmenorrhea. This study aims to determine the influence of cow milk consumption to decrease the pain intensity of primary dysmenorrhea in students of nursing department at SMKN 2 Malang. The research design used was true experiment with pre test-post test with control group design. The sample in this study were 21 people and divided into three groups taken by simple random sampling . The results showed that there was a difference of decrease pain intensity in three groups using One Way Anova test with p value 0.000 (p

Dysmenorrhea becomes on of the most common menstrual problems experienced by teenagers. Dysmenorrhea is divided into primary and secondary dysmenorrhea. Primary dysmenorrhea occurs without pelvic organ pathology. Physical Activity is one factor risk of primary dysmenorrhea. The aim of this study is to determine the association between physical activity with degree of primary dysmenorrhea in young women in The Undergraduate Midwifery Study Program of Medicine Faculty of Brawijaya University Malang. The design of this study is an observational analytical with prospective approach. The sample in this study amounted to 52 people selected by using purposive sampling. This study was conducted during two menstrual cycles. The test result by chi square analysis demonstrated an association between physical activity with the degree of primary dysmenorrhea with p value 0,000 (p