en Health Promotion Health Promotion پژوهشي Original Article <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Background:</strong> The present study was conducted to investigate the beliefs of girl students in Pakdasht city about obese people and the factors related to it.<br> <strong>Methods: </strong>This cross sectional study was conducted on 350 grade-seven students in Pakdasht city. The data collection tool was a BAOP questionnaire, including demographic information and eight five-choice questions on the beliefs about obesity and obese people. To analyze the data, the SPSS 16 software as well as Chi-Square test and one-way ANOVA were used.<br> <strong>Results:</strong> The result reported, 141 (40.3%) students disagreed with the sentence &quot;Obesity often occurs as a result of an illness.&quot; and 74 ones (21.1%) totally disagreed. Or, asking a question about the eating habits of obese people (&quot;The majority of obese people have bad eating habits that lead to their obesity.&quot;) indicated that 73 students (20.9%) totally agreed and 128 ones (36.6%) agreed with the idea. In addition, 15 students (4.2%) totally agreed with the sentence &ldquo;<em>Obesity rarely occurs due to the person&#39;s lack of will</em>.&rdquo;<br> <strong>Conclusion: </strong>The findings of this study showed that high school female students had little knowledge about the causes of obesity.</span></span></div> Beliefs, Obesity, Related factors, Female students 40 44 http://jhehp.zums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-142-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Mohtasham Ghaffari Ghaffari930@gmail.com 10031947532846009547 10031947532846009547 No Department of Public Health, School of Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Sakineh Rakhshandehroo Rakhshandehroo930@gmail.com 10031947532846009548 10031947532846009548 No Department of Public Health, School of Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Yadollah Mehrabi Mehrabi 930@gmail.com 10031947532846009549 10031947532846009549 No Department of Public Health, School of Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Samaneh Besharati Far besharatisamaneh930@gmail.com 10031947532846009550 10031947532846009550 Yes Department of Public Health, School of Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.