Open Access Maced J Med Sci. 2021 Oct 28; 9(E):999-1004. 999 Scientifc Foundation SPIROSKI, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences. 2021 Oct 28; 9(E):999-1004. https://doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2021.5740 eISSN: 1857-9655 Category: E - Public Health Section: Public Health Education and Training Relationship of Eating Behavior, Knowledge, Attitudes, Physical Activities, and Parent Support with Obesity Events in Adolescents in Padang City Deswita Deswita 1,2 * , Nurindrawaty Lipoeto 2 , Mudjiran Mudjiran 3 , Khatijah Binti Abdullah 4 1 Doctoral Program of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Andalas, Padang, Indonesia; 2 Department of Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Andalas, Padang, Indonesia; 3 Department of Biomedic, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Andalas, Padang, Indonesia, 4 Department of Guidance and Counseling, Faculty of Education, University of State, Sunway University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Abstract BACKGROUND: A report from the West Sumatra Provincial Health Ofce in December 2017 showed increase in the percentage of overweight and obese children in the city of Padang. In 2014, overweight children amounted to 4.86% and an increase in 2016 to 6.44%. AIM: This study aimed to determine the most dominant risk factors afecting the incidence of obesity in adolescents in Padang City. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was conducted on 484 respondents from 4 (four) schools, namely SMPN 26, SMPIT Adzkia, SMAN 3, and SMA Adabiah Padang in December 2019-February 2020. Data analysis used the Chi-square test and multiple logistic regression tests. RESULTS: The multivariate analysis results showed that adolescents’ eating behavior variable was the most dominant factor afecting adolescents’ incidence of obesity with a signifcance value of p < 0.05 and Exp (B) 14.11. These results showed that adolescents who behave eat poorly at 14.11 times, have the risk of obesity more than adolescents who eat well. CONCLUSIONS: Adolescent eating behavior variables can predict the incidence of obesity in adolescents together with adolescent physical activity variables, adolescent attitudes, and adolescent knowledge. Edited by: Sasho Stoleski Citation: Deswita D, Lipoeto N, Mudjiran M, Abdullah KB. Relationship of Eating Behavior, Knowledge, Attitudes, Physical Activities, and Parent Support with Obesity Events in Adolescents in Padang City. Open Access Maced J Med Sci. 2021 Oct 28; 9(E):999-1004. https://doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2021.5740 Keywords: Adolescent obesity; Attitude; Eating behavior; Knowledge; Physical activity *Correspondence: Deswita Deswita, Department of Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Andalas, Padang, Indonesia. E-mail: deswita@nrs.unand.ac.id Received: 02-Feb-2021 Revised: 01-Mar-2021 Accepted: 18-Oct-2021 Copyright: © 2021 Deswita Deswita, Nurindrawaty Lipoeto, Mudjiran Mudjiran, Khatijah Binti Abdullah Funding: This research did not receive any fnancial support Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist Open Access: This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) Introduction Child obesity is currently a severe problem that is being considered to improve public health status. In the world, the number of children who are obese has increased 10-fold in the last four decades. If this trend continues, there will be more children and adolescents with obesity in 2022, according to a study conducted by Imperial College London and the World Health Organization [1]. Various data showed that obesity prevalence tends to increase every year in both developed and developing countries, particularly obesity which occurs in adolescents. More than 340 million children and adolescents aged 5–19 years were overweight and obese in 2016. Increased the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents had increased dramatically from 4% in 1975 to more than 18% in 2016 (WHO, 2018) [2]. According to Pengpid and Peltzer research, in 2016, the data was collected on overweight and obesity in several ASEAN countries: Malaysia 23.7%, Philippines 10.2%, Thailand 8.9%, and Indonesia 7.0% [3]. This prevalence associated with several factors: developed and developed countries, consumption of healthy foods and nutrients such as vegetables, and physical activity such as cycling [3]. A report from the West Sumatra Provincial Health Ofce in December 2017 showed that an increase in the percentage of children who are overweight and obese in the city of Padang. In 2014, overweight children amounted to 4.86% and an increase in 2016 to 6.44%. Based on data from student enrollment in West Sumatra Province in 2016 revealed that overweight and obese children occurred mostly in junior high school children about 9.93% compare than primary school children 5.94% and high school children 3.84% (Report from the West Sumatra Provincial Health Ofce, 2017 [4]). Obesity preventive action will reduce government funding for catastrophic diseases as a result of obesity. Obese adolescents will form noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes and