Ayuba, Iya Haruna2023-12-132023-12-132020-06-07Alan, H. D.; Murphy, T. G.; Lauren, N. & Neri, L. (2007). Current diagnoses and treatment obstetrics and gynecology. Tenth edition. Mcgraw-Hill pg: 1015-16 American Psychological Association (APA, 2007). Task Force on socioeconomic status. (2007). Report of the A PA Task Force on Socioeconomic Status. Washington. DC:.Author. Anderson. N. B. &. Armstead. C. A. ■ 1995). Toward understanding the association of Socio-economic status and health: a new challenge for the bio-psychosocial approach. Psychotics Medical Journal, 57,213-225. Baum, A.; Garofalo, J.. P. & Yali, A. (1999). Socioeconomic status and chronic stress: does stress account for SES effects on health? Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 896,131-44. Braveman, P. A.; Cubbin, C.; Egerter. S.; Chideva. S.; Marchi. K. S.; Metzler, M. & Posner. S. (2005). Socioeconomic status in health research: One size does not fit all .JAMA, 294,2879-2888 Christopher. G. H. (2005). Socioeconomic status and mental illness: tests of the Social causation and selection hypotheses. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 75(1 ),3-18 Fotso J. C. & Kuale-Defo, B. (2005). “Measuring socioeconomic status in health research in developing countries: should we be focusing on households, communities or both?" Social Indicators Research, 72(2), 189-237.https://keffi.nsuk.edu.ng/handle/20.500.14448/4427The study determined the relationship between socioeconomic status and anxiety among pregnant women in North Central Nigeria The choice of pregnant women as a target group is justified by the fact that women are important agents of change in the society whose physical, psychological and social wellbeing need to be safeguarded. Correlational research design was adopted. A questionnaire on Socio-economic Status and Anxiety among Pregnant Women tOSSAPIV) was adapted for data collection. The instrument was validated and an index of 0.S3 (83%) was obtained. Cronbach alpha method of testing reliability was used in establishing a reliability coefficient of at = 0.S0. Data were analyzed using chi-square statistics. The population of the study was 7,058, from which 979 pregnant women were randomly selected as sample. 810 Questionnaire were rightly completed and used for analysis. Findings revealed that while education level showed a significant relationship with anxiety among pregnant women, occupation status and income levels show no relationship with anxiety level. It is recommended that anxiety screening needs to oc rctuit'reti in counsellors to pregnant women regardless o’du .r <. din alia1'.CamsenAnxiet\>, Socio-economic status. Women, pregnancy. CounsellingRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS AND ANXIETY AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN IN NORTH CENTRAL NIGERIA.Article