26 ISSN 2721-1215 (Print), ISSN 2721-1231 (Online) Copyright © 2020, Journal La Medihealtico, Under the license CC BY-SA 4.0 JOURNAL LA MEDIHEALTICO VOL. 01, ISSUE 02 (026-031), 2020 DOI: 10.37899/journallamedihealtico.v1i2.118 Screening of Eating Disorders Risk with Scoff Tool on Adolescents in Samarinda City Sitti Badrah 1 , Reny Noviasty 2 , Rahmi Susanti 3 1 Specialization in Environmental Health, Faculty of Public Health, Mulawarman University, Indonesia 2 Specialization in Community Nutrition, Faculty of Public Health, Mulawarman University, Indonesia 3 Specialization in Biostatistics, Faculty of Public Health, Mulawarman University, Samarinda, Indonesia Corresponding Author: Sitti Badrah Article Info Article history: Received 20 July 2020 Received in revised form 25 July 2020 Accepted 27 July 2020 Keywords: Screening Eating Disorders Scoof Tool Adolescent Abstract Adolescents’s Eating behavior that generally expects slim body increases the risk of eating disorders which causes poor nutritional needs. The objective was to identify the risk of eating disorder with SCOFF Tools for students in SMAN/S in Samarinda. The design was quantitative descriptive with SCOFF Screening instrument consisting 5 questions namely makin yourself (sick); Worry having lost (Control); Lost more than 6,35kg (One Stone); Believing Yourself (Fat); (Food) dominated your life. The random sampling technique use to selection that located in Samarinda consisting of 10 districts with a total of 39 SMAN/S high schools by measuring changes in eating disorders. The analysis using Pearson correlation test and simple linear regression. The research was obtained by 812 respondents from 19 SMAN/S in Samarinda. The data collection based on age there are 273 students aged 16 years, 25 students aged 14 years and 82 students aged over 17. There are 468 students who have a normal BMI, 35 students are mildly obese and 60 students are mild having overweight status and BMI under 17 as many as 124 students who are underweight. Eating disorder risk screening results with the SCOFF Tool found 57.4% of high school children are at risk of eating disorders. It can be concluded that adolescents in Samarinda tend to be at risk of eating disorders so that early intervention is needed to prevent prolonged malnutrition. Introduction The nutritional value and health aspects are no longer a concern to adults due to maintaining social status which can refer to eating disorders or disordered eating. Growth and development in adolescents have a negative impact due to an eating disorder (Rolfes et al., 1998). For women, teens, slim body is craving (Kjelsås et al., 2004).). Thus, they limit their intake erroneously that can cause not meet nutrient needs. Based on the study of Ho et al (2006) found that the tendency of the increasingly widespread incidence of eating disorders and began to be found in Asian countries, but is still dominated by the West. 140 cases of eating disorders have been reported every year in the State of Singapore and Singapore 7.4% of young women at risk of eating disorders. Eating disorders are also suffered by teenagers in Indonesia based on research Putra (2008) to get the result that SMAN 70 in South Jakarta is more than 80% of respondents had an eating disorder, while the students of Madrasah Aliyah Development UIN CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by Newinera Publisher (Scientific Journal)