The present study was conducted to compare quality of life of patients with Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), bronchial asthma and healthy controls in different domains namely, physical health and mental health components, in addition overall quality of life and general health hence, a sample of 90 patients was used, in which 30 were COPD patients, 30 were bronchial asthma patients and 30 were healthy controls. Data was analyzed by using T-test, Chi-square test, Analysis of variance

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... (ANOVA), and Bonferroni multiple comparisons. The findings revealed that adult male patients with COPD have poor quality of life as compared to bronchial asthmatics patients and healthy controls. The results were exhaustively discussed in the light of existing findings and other possible explanations of the findings were also offered.