To identify the prevalence of risk behaviors to eating disorders in teenagers from
Palmas-TO and its relation to body dissatisfaction and sociodemographic
characteristics. It’s a quantitative descriptive research performed with student
teenagers from high school. The data collect happened remote. The Eating Attitudes
Test (EAT-26) was used for eating behavior evaluation and the Body Shape
Questionnaire (BSQ) to evaluate body self-realization. The sample was constituted
by 58 participants, majorly females with ages between 15 and 17 years, studying in
second year. We found that 17,2% of the sample had a positive score on EAT-26,
while 8,6% showed some level of body dissatisfaction according to BSQ. There were
no associations between sex, age, height and BMI with the scores on EAT-26 and
BSQ. A positive association between body dissatisfaction and overweight or obesity
was observed (p=0,007). Furthermore, it was found that adolescents with some level
of body dissatisfaction had higher median score on EAT-26 (p=0,03).
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