Relation of smoking status of students attending at Bitlis Eren University School of health and vocational school of health services with dependent personality scale

Role of the youth and especially healthcare staff on struggling with smoking, the most important health problem of the world, is important. The purpose of this study is to investigate relation of the youth receiving health education with smoking status and dependent personality feature. All of the students enrolled to and attending at Bitlis Eren University School of Health and Vocational School of Health Service in 2011-2012 academic year were chosen for sample group. Questionnaires were carried out by making under observation interviews with students between December 2011-January 2012.The mean age of 413 people who participated in the questionnaire was 20,8; 49,9% of them were male, and 50,1% were female. Rate of smoking in the group was 29,8% and this rate was 45,6% for male, and 14% for female.When those who were smoking and had quitted smoking were accepted as a group and compared with those who never started smoking, students who were still smoking or quitted smoking had higher dependent personality scores than those who never smoked(p<0.05).Consequently, it was seen that smoking frequency of university students having health education was similar to general population and smoking status was associated with dependent personality feature.Key words: Bitlis Eren University, smoking, dependent personality, university students.