Background: It is essential to evaluate and update the knowledge, education and awareness of the diabetes among university students, especially among medical students because in future they are going to tackle this major public health problem. Materials and Methods: This was a descriptive, cross-sectional Questionnaire based observational study conducted among Albaha university students in Al-Aqiq, Saudi Arabia. assessing their knowledge of diabetes, its risk factors and complications The participants consist of both medical students studying at preclinical and clinical years of MBBS at Faculty of Medicine and non-medical students studying at other different faculties at Albaha University Results: A total of three hundred eight (308) questionnaires were completed by the participants, with a response rate of 83.7%, of these 49.4% and 50.6% were medical and nonmedical students respectively. Most of the respondents were below 24 years of age (70.1%). The overall knowledge about diabetes among the participant was found to be about 69.2% and their awareness regarding diabetes risk factors was found to be 61.2 %. Almost all (100%) of the medical students were agreed on diabetic complications; while only 50% of nonmedical students were aware of theses complications Conclusion: From this study we can concluded that Albaha University students knowledge about diabetes was fair, the knowledge is more among medical students as compared to the nonmedical students. Health education efforts should be directed towards enhancing knowledge and awareness of Albaha University students about diabetes mellitus, its risk factors and complications.
