A Study to Identify the Prevalence of Co-Morbidity among Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients Seeking Treatment in Outpatient Department of Bhopal Memorial Hospital & Research Centre, Bhopal

"A study to identify the prevalence of co-morbidity among Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease patients seeking treatment in outpatient department of Bhopal Memorial Hospital & Research Centre, Bhopal. Objectives:

Research approach was quantitative approach and a retrospective and descriptive research design was used in this study. Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre (ICMR, Under Dept. Of Health, Ministry of Health &Family welfare, and Govt. of India) a 350-bedded multi-specialty tertiary care centre situated at Bhopal, India. Sample sizes were 150 patients with COPD. The data collection instrument had two parts. Part I- Demographic variables and part-II general assessment of co-morbidity with COPD.

Out of 150, COPD patients 73.3% were male, and 26.6% were females who had co-morbidity along with COPD. Among 150 COPD patients, 35.33% had hypertension 28% had tuberculosis, cardiac diseases is 26.7%, respiratory tract infection had 20%, diabetes mellitus had 18.67%, & others were 20%. Chi-square test was computed in order to find the relationship between co-morbidity and demographic variables like age, gender, income, living condition, BMI, education, history of illness, occupation and history of smoking were found significant at 0.05 level of significance. conclusion of this study were the hypertension was associated with age, diabetes mellitus was associated with occupation, Cardiac disease associated with age, gender and occupation, tuberculosis associated with age, gender and occupation, respiratory tract infection associated with history of smoking. Hence there was significant relationship between co-morbidity of COPD and demographic variables.