Health Related Quality of Life in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients

Objective: To determine the health-related quality of life among patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Study Design: Cross sectional analytical study. Place and Duration of study: Medicine/pulmonology department of Pak Emirates Military Hospital, Rawalpindi Pakistan, from Jan 2019 to Jan 2020. Methodology: Two hundred and fifty patients of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease diagnosed for more than one year byv a consultant medical specialist or pulmonologist were included in the study. Health related quality of life was assessed by using the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Assessment Test (CAT). Socio-demographic factors in the study were correlated independently with the decline in quality of life by using the binary logistic regression. Results: Out of 250 patients of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 122(48.8%) had normal health related quality of life while 128(51.2%) had compromised quality of life. Mean age of the study participants was 50.71±2.26 years. Advancing age of the patients and long duration of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease had statistically significant association with compromised health related quality of life (p-value