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Objective: The purpose of this study is to determine the social support and anxiety levels of patients receiving chemotherapy, and conducted as a cross-sectional study. Materials and Methods: The study is conducted at the Ministry of Health Provincial Health Directorate X Hospital ambulatory chemotherapy unit completed with 104 patient. Cancer Patient Social Support Scale (CSSS), The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), and the Personal Information Form are used as data collection tools. The number, percentage, Mann Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis, All Pairwise tests and Spearman correlation are used for data evaluation. Results: It is identified that 30.8% of the patients are in 40-49 age group, 54.8% are female, and 64.4% are elementary school graduates. CSSS total mean score average of the patients participating in the study is identified as 141.38±20.82, trust support mean score as 56.50±8.16, emotional support mean score as 48.59±7.66 and information support mean score as 36.28±7.28 from the CSSS subscales. The patients participating in the study is identified state anxiety mean score as 40.40±3.89 and trait anxiety mean score as 46.67±6.33 from the STAI scales. A statistically significant relationship is found between the persons accompanying the treatment, capability to ask for help in case of need, the treatment’s impact on the relationship with the family and CSSS total and subscales, as well as between chronic disease and state anxiety scale (p<0.05). Conclusion: While a positive poor relationship is identified between the CSSS total and emotional support subscale and state anxiety scale, a positive moderate relationship is identified between the trust support subscale and the STAI scale. In this context, it can be said that the level of anxiety increases as the social support levels of the patients increase.

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