Knowledge and awareness about emergency eye diseases in students of medical faculties at the Syrian Private University

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Abstract Background Several recent studies have shown a relationship between the degree of awareness of emergency eye diseases according to a set of variables. Research objective to study the degree of awareness about emergency eye diseases among students of medical colleges at the Syrian Private University and to find out the differences about the degree of their knowledge of emergency eye diseases according to the variables (sex - specialization - academic year).Methods A cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical study was conducted on (516) students from medical colleges at the Syrian Private University. A questionnaire prepared by the researcher consisting of (18) items was distributed, in addition to some personal information (gender / specialization / academic year). Informed consent was taken from all participants, and the answers of the sample members were compared after dividing them according to the variables. The data was analyzed using the statistical analysis program (SPSS) version No. (24) and considering the variable as statistically significant when the value of the significance level (P-Value) is smaller than (0.05).Results The degree of awareness about emergency eye diseases among students of medical colleges at the Syrian Private University was medium, and the disease (glaucoma, which is one of the emergency eye diseases) came in the first place with a high degree, followed by the disease (closed-angle artery occlusion) in the second place and with a moderate degree, then came Disease (retinal detachment) in third place. There are no statistically significant differences in the degree of awareness about emergency eye diseases among medical college students at the Syrian Private University due to the gender variable (male / female). There are statistically significant differences between the estimates of the study sample in the degree of medical students' knowledge of separation disease, according to the variable of specialization, in favor of the students of the Faculty of Human Medicine, followed by pharmacy, and finally dentistry. There are statistically significant differences at the level (05.0 ≤ α) between the estimates of the study sample in the degree of awareness about emergency eye diseases among students of medical colleges at the Syrian Private University due to the variable of the academic year, in favor of both the sixth and fifth years.