Knowledge about primary open angle glaucoma among medical students

Martins, Saulo Costa; Mendes, Marcos Henrique; Guedes, Ricardo Augusto Paletta; Guedes, Vanessa Maria Paletta; Chaoubah, Alfredo

doi:10.5935/0034-7280.20140064

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“…The health care giver should therefore be equipped with necessary information to motivate glaucoma relatives to avail themselves for screening. In this present study about 30% were not aware that glaucoma is a hereditary disease, but this number is better than reported by Martins et al (2014). Future health care personnel should understand the hereditary nature of glaucoma for early detection.…”

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confidence: 69%

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Knowledge of Glaucoma amongst Medical and Nursing Final Year Students in Southern Nigeria

Ezenwa¹,

Jagun²,

Uzozie³

2021

theijst

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The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge and understanding of glaucoma amongst final year medical and nursing students and to subjectively assess their perception of basic eye examination skills. This was a cross sectional survey using a self-administered pre-tested questionnaire. A total of 238 students with a mean age of 23.2 years, comprising of 102 (42.9%) medical and 136 (57.1%) nursing students took the survey. Almost all the participants had heard about glaucoma with four out of five participants knowing there is treatment for glaucoma. One hundred and sixty-five (69.3%) felt their exposure to basic eye examination was inadequate and this affected their overall confidence in carrying out eye examinations. In conclusion, the soon to be medical professionals had a good knowledge and understanding of glaucoma, however there was a poor level of confidence towards carrying out basic eye examination which needs to be addressed in the current teaching curriculum.

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confidence: 69%

“…Future health care personnel should understand the hereditary nature of glaucoma for early detection. Martins et al (2014) and Shetty (2019) also observed as seen in this study that one in three students did not know that blindness from glaucoma was irreversible.…”

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confidence: 64%

Knowledge of Glaucoma amongst Medical and Nursing Final Year Students in Southern Nigeria

Ezenwa¹,

Jagun²,

Uzozie³

2021

theijst

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“…The questionnaire used in the study was designed based on previously published questionnaires with some modifications [ 10 , 11 ]. The chosen items from published questionnaires were translated into the Croatian language and after that back translated into the English language by a native English speaker, in order to ensure a validated questionnaire.…”

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“…Similar findings were observed in a study by Boadi-Kusi et al, which included pharmacy, dental and medical students. Interestingly, these results also revealed that the media had a major role in students’ glaucoma awareness but a limited role in students’ knowledge [ 10 , 11 , 12 ].…”

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Investigation of Biomedical Students’ Knowledge on Glaucoma Reveals a Need for Education: A Cross-Sectional Study

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Background: Glaucoma has been recognized as one of the leading global causes of irreversible blindness. Patients with primary open-angle glaucoma rarely present with visual symptoms, at least early in the course of the disease. It is important to recognize and treat the disease before there are irreversible changes. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted at the University of Split School of Medicine from October to November 2021. Participants were biomedical students who completed a questionnaire. Results: In total, 312 students participated in this study. Interestingly, only 12.2% of students identified that primary open-angle glaucoma was asymptomatic. Only 42.6% of all students recognized glaucoma as being the main cause of irreversible blindness. Pharmacy students less frequently recognized high blood pressure and diabetes mellitus as risk factors for glaucoma. Students who completed an ophthalmology course more frequently recognized that successful glaucoma treatment prevents blindness, compared to students who did not complete the course, 79.1% vs. 48.7%, p < 0.001. Conclusion: The results showed that students’ knowledge on the subject is low, even after they passed their ophthalmology course. However, knowledge of glaucoma is crucial for early disease identification and the prevention of blindness. Therefore, it is important that all future health care professionals acquire adequate education.

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“…We applied a scientifically validated and already published questionnaire, which was also validated for this specific target population -medical students with Portuguese as native language (Martins et al, 2014). This questionnaire consisted in 11 questions about epidemiology, risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and consequences of glaucoma, all topics covered during class.…”

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Pilot study on the impact of lectures and introduction of digital technologies in the knowledge acquisition in medical students

Teles¹,

Leal²,

Sousa³

et al. 2019

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Introduction: Academic teaching has been present in society for centuries. However, its methodology has not significantly changed. Though various articles were published analysing students´ satisfaction with the teaching method, there is still scarce data on the knowledge improvement associated with different methodologies. Therefore, the endpoints of this research were: 1) analyse the impact of Sophistic lectures in knowledge acquisition in medical students and 2) examine knowledge assessment using new digital technologies, compared with a more traditional paper-based method.Methods: A repeated measures design was implemented in four classes of 4 th year medical students, lectured by the same teacher on the same subject. A scientifically validated questionnaire was applied before and after each class, in paper and web-based tool Sli.do to two classes each. Results were compared by means of descriptive statistics.Results: 55 answers were obtained in paper and 34 in Sli.do. Paper method questionnaires had mildly lower scores before and after class (46% and 74,2%, respectively) when compared with Sli.do (52,4% and 82,9%, respectively). Although basal scores were different among methods, both revealed a similar relative knowledge improvement, comparatively to the respective baseline (61,3% vs. 58,2%, respectively). Discussion & Conclusions:The results showed that Sophistic classes are effective in learning, independent of evaluation method, which reassure that the task of the teacher is important and effective. This study supports the use of digital-based tools to assess learning in classes since they are more time-efficient, more ecological and logistically easier. Finally, assess the information that is being effectively taught to the students has several benefits for the teachers, the university and ultimately the students. Since a digital storage of the collected data makes it possible to carry out more effective internal audits over time, allowing the improvement of areas with lower results, benefitting Teles S, Leal I, Sousa D, Marques-Neves C, Abegão Pinto L MedEdPublish

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Knowledge about primary open angle glaucoma among medical students

Cited by 5 publications

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Knowledge of Glaucoma amongst Medical and Nursing Final Year Students in Southern Nigeria

Knowledge of Glaucoma amongst Medical and Nursing Final Year Students in Southern Nigeria

Investigation of Biomedical Students’ Knowledge on Glaucoma Reveals a Need for Education: A Cross-Sectional Study

Pilot study on the impact of lectures and introduction of digital technologies in the knowledge acquisition in medical students

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