Aminu et al., J Biomed & App Sci FUD (2025) 4:1
Keywords: Maternal health, socio-economic status, quality of life, disease.
2025-09-29 DOI: JOBASFUD_2024_3_2_025
Background: Maternal health issues haves been one of the cornerstone challenges over decades in developing countries like Nigeria. Factors like socio-economic status and quality of life have been correlated with maternal health. Conditions like anemia, preeclampsia, and birth related complications are all associated with low income and inability to live qualitative life, therefore, the focus of the paper is on maternal health related distresses resulted from low socio-economic status and poor quality of life. This study aimed to assess the impact of socio-economic status and the effect of quality of life maternal health problems. Methods: A descriptive study design was employed and 125 women were selected using purposive sampling technique, data was collected using adopted and modified quality of life scale, Socio economic status scale and dietary analysis/diversity. Data was analyzed using statistical package for social science (SPSS) version 23.0. Results: Result shown that out of 87 women that are below poverty benchmark 38 (43.68%) have anemia, 16.09% experienced birth related complications while 32.18 present with disease. While the Quality of life results shown that 83 (66.4%) of the respondents have live lower quality of life and 42 (50.60%) of them present with anemia, 43.38% presented with birth complication 4.82 presented with other diseases. Conclusion: This correlated low socioeconomic status and poor quality of life with health challenges. Therefore, there is need for effective health policy formulation and resource intervention to curtail these issues to prevent the cases from escalating.