Correlation of Global Body Examination (GBE) and St. George’s Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder (COPD)

Dr. Nazia Kulsum, Dr. Mohammad Anamul Haque, Dr. Tajwar Yasmeen, Dr. Prabhpreet Bachittar Singh

Background and purpose: Chronic Obstructive pulmonary Disease (COPD), a common preventable and treatable disease, is characterized by persistent airflow limitation that is usually progressive and associated with an enhanced chronic inflammatory response in the airways and the lung to noxious particles or gases. A new comprehensive instrument the Global Body Examination (GBE) is developed. It is an improved evaluation tool for respiration extracting from CBE and GPE-52 the respiration items with best ability to assess a patient with respiratory disorders. It has been earlier documented that GBE have good internal consistency and is excellent in discriminating healthy individual and patient with respiratory disorder. The new scales provide a sound basis for physiotherapeutic examination of patients with long-lasting Respiratory problems. Finding relationship of GBE with other measures of respiratory functions still remains unexplored. The present study aims towards finding out the relationship of GBE with SGRQ in COPD patients. Methodology: It was a correlational study design which includes 22 COPD male Subjects of age between 40-65 years already diagnosed with COPD patients in the study. . The subjects were randomly divided into two groups of (Group I, n=11, Group II, n=11), measurements of SGRQ and GBE were documented. Results: There was a good correlation found between the Global Body Examination and St. George’s Respiratory Questionnaire (r = 0.910, p = .0001).