Abstract

SANCHEZ HERNANDEZ, Cristina del Rocio; RIVADENEYRA-ESPINOZA, Liliana  and  GONZALEZ PEREZ, Álvaro. Visual acuity in students of medicine at a private university of Puebla, Mexico. Revista médica Risaralda [online]. 2016, vol.22, n.2, pp.79-82. ISSN 0122-0667.

Introduction. The visual acuity is considered as a parameter visual routine that is used to evaluate the ocular health and serves to detect alterations at low cost and reduce the preventable blindness or curable. Objective. Identify the changes in visual acuity normal, moderate or severe disability and blindness in the medical students who are at the half of the race through the taking of visual acuity. Method. Design was a non-experimental, descriptive, observational, prospective cross-sectional. The sample was composed of 308 students of the Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla of the medical career that fulfilled the inclusion criteria. A questionnaire was administered which included personal history ophthalmologic and symptomatology ophthalmic and conducted the test of visual acuity with Snellen’s test. Results. The 88.31 % of the patients had a visual acuity normal, 11.68 % of the students presented deficit of the visual acuity of which the visual disability moderate was presented in a 10.71 % in the right eye and a 11.03 % in the left eye, the category of severe disability the percentage was less than 1% in both eyes. Conclusion. In this university the majority of students are visually normal, but there is a need to establish ongoing programs that allow for identifying those students that have decreased their visual acuity to avoid that you do not reduce the learning and development of skills of the medical career.

Keywords : Visual acuity; Medical students; Blindness.

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