of pregnancy in Erzurum.
Methods: The study was conducted as a descriptive field survey between 1 December 2016 and 31 January 2017. The universe of the research is composed of 226 pregnant women in Erzurum city center. SPSS for data recording and analysis. Ver.22.0 package program is used. Descriptive statistics are presented as mean ± standard deviation, percent and frequency distributions. The Mann Whitney-U test was used to assess the quality of life and p <0.05 was considered statistically significant.

Results: All pregnant women in this study are at least 28 weeks in pregnancy. The mean age of the women participating in the survey is 28.2±5.8 (18- 44) and 4% of them are 19 years old or younger. Of pregnant women, 39.3% were primary school graduates. Pregnant women’s mean duration of marriage is 6.5±4.9 years. Unintended pregnancy rate is 21.7%. The mean number of pregnancies is 2.6±1.5. Pregnant women who give birth by caesarean section rate is 27%. Additionally, 15% of the pregnant have a chronic disease and 6.6 of them are smoker. According to SF-36 quality of life form scales; there was a significant difference between those who are educated on primary education, those who have regular income, those who are willingly pregnant in vitality, mental health, social functioning areas; spousal primary school education and the presence of social security in mental health, vitality and pain scores. In addition, scores of physical function, physical and emotional role, mental health and social functioning were significantly lower in smokers.

Conclusion: In our study it has been observed that the level of education affects many measures of quality of life. Regular income and social security have significantly affected the quality of life. In addition, a healthy pregnancy process is possible in women who have intended pregnancy. Keywords: pregnancy, SF-36, third trimester, quality of life