Review the frequency of ophthalmologists and optometrists opinions about treatment of amblyopia in Guilan province in 2018

Purpose: Review the frequency of ophthalmologists and optometrists opinions about treatment of amblyopia in Guilan province. Methods: The study was cross-sectional. 30 ophtalmologists and 20 optometrists of Guilan province were surveyed during the second quarter of 2018. A structured questionnaire, without name, including closed-endedquestions was the tool of data collection which was suggested by Amblyopia Treatment Studies and expert ophthalmologists and its validity and reliability was checked by (Content Validity Rate) CVR and (Content Validity Index)CVI. Results: The first treatment method in refractive amblyopia was chosen in appropriate to the patient. The firsttreatment step in strabismic amblyopia was patching and using glasses, the best age to start treatment was less than one year old, treatment of refractive amblyopia should be continued until 7-10 years old , mostly agreed to treat ambylopic patients over 10 years old and at least one hour near and distance activity during the day, patching of healthy eye 4-6 hours a day , for maintenance therapy both methods 0.5% atropine drop weekly and 1 hour per day patching are used, Drops are not used alone in treatment , Type of droplet that use in cycloplegic refraction is Cyclogel 1% , treatment with glasses alone was used in milde amblyopia and prescription of glasses in anesometropic and isometropic amblyopia at different ages is different with guidelines which are published in this regard. Conclusion: There was a differences of opinion regarding some aspects of treatment of amblyopia between ophthalmologists and optometrists and between members of each group separately. These disagreements are remarkable in some aspects. It is best to focus on newer therapies for retraining opportunities and congresses to better match the pattern of amblyopia treatment of ophthalmologists and optometrists with the results of Amblyopia Treatment Studies and clinical guidelines published in this regard.