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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is common, preventable and treatable disease is characterized by persistent respiratory symptoms like dyspnea and airflow limitations. There are many objective and subjective scales which are used to assess different factors affected due to COPD like quality of life, well-being of patients, dyspnea, endurance, etc. GOLD is diagnostic criteria for diagnosis as well as for assessment of COPD. Barthel Index based on dyspnea, COPD assessment test and BODE are used to assess the dyspnea, wellbeing of patients, endurance and mortality of patients respectively in patients. To study the Correlation between Barthel Index based on dyspnea (BI-d), COPD assessment test (CAT), BODE and GOLD classification as staging systems of COPD was the aim of this study. Methodology- With the help of convenient sampling 23 COPD patients were taken as a sample. PFT was performed for all the samples and according to PFT results their disease staging was determined. All the patients were given validated BI-d and CAT scales in their preferred language. BI-d measures level of dyspnea perceived in performing Activities of Daily living and rate from 0-4 for per activity and total score is from 0-100. CAT examines well-being of patients and scoring of scale is from 0-40. For BODE index, BMI, obstruction i.e. FEV1 obtained from PFT, dyspnea from mMRC scale and Endurance from 6-minute walk test was performed and value of BODE index score from 0-10 was given. Through SPSS software all the results were analyzed and spearman�s correlation coefficient test was used. Results- At significance level of 0.05, correlation done between GOLD and BI-d had strength of correlation of 0.52 which was moderate positive correlation. Rho values was 0.01 hence GOLD and BI-d positively correlates and statistically significant. Correlation done between GOLD and CAT had strength of correlation of 0.13 which was weak positive correlation while rho value was 0.51 at same significance level. This was statistically not significant. Correlation between GOLD and BODE had strength of correlation of 0.91 which was strong positive correlation and p value was 0.00001. GOLD and BODE had statistically significant positive correlation. Conclusion- BODE, BI-d, CAT all these positively correlates with GOLD but CAT doesn�t show significant positive correlation.