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Material and methods: The study included 148 chronically ill patients under home nursing care. The study used the diagnostic survey method; the research technique was a questionnaire containing basic data about the respondent and the Social Support Scale (SWS) by Krystyna Kmiecik-Baran. Results: The need to continue the causal treatment at home means that the main source of support for care beneficiaries are nurses who provide medical services at the patient\u2019s home, supported by doctors and family members of the patient. According to patients\u2019 subjective assessment of the support they received from nurses, patients rated the informational support provided by nurses highest at 14.3 points and emotional support at 13.3 points (SD 1.776). on a scale where the maximum score was 16 points. In the opinion of the surveyed patients, the value-added support provided was the lowest-rated category by patients, 9.74 points (SD 2.505). Instrumental support was also rated very poorly by the respondents (10.17 points (SD 2.069). In each category, there was no statistically significant difference at the p &lt; 0.05 level in the respondents\u2019 evaluation, which means that the expressed opinion on each type of support from the highest to the lowest evaluation: informational, emotional, instrumental, and evaluative\u2014overlapped in the patient group and the family group. Conclusions: Patients under home care highly appreciated the support provided to them by the nursing staff. Social support for a chronically ill person who requires constant care and care by the nursing staff is a form of direct impact that relieves stress and tension, minimizes the effects of the disease, directly affects the course of treatment and care, and prevents stigmatization.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph22071060","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,2]],"date-time":"2025-07-02T06:46:12Z","timestamp":1751438772000},"page":"1060","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Impact of Social Support on the Functioning of Patients Receiving Home Nursing Care"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9953-6718","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bo\u017cena Ewa","family":"Kopcych","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Lomza, 18-400 Lomza, Poland"},{"name":"Public Palliative Care Facility in Suwa\u0142ki, Home Mechanical Ventilation Team, 16-400 Suwa\u0142ki, Poland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0005-4610-4328","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pawe\u0142","family":"Falkowski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of Bialystok, 15-089 Bialystok, Poland"},{"name":"Polish Dermatoscopy Group, 60-355 Poznan, Poland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0002-9570-2445","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Daniela Patricia Santos","family":"Costa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Home Health Care, Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs, Riyadh 11426, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"83","DOI":"10.20883\/pielpol.2017.11","article-title":"Pr\u00f3ba por\u00f3wnania jako\u015bci opieki zdrowotnej w wojew\u00f3dztwach mazowieckim i podlaskim- badania pilota\u017cowe","volume":"1","author":"Krukiel","year":"2017","journal-title":"Piel\u0119gniarstwo Pol."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"132","DOI":"10.5604\/20834543.1152908","article-title":"Poziom satysfakcji pacjenta jako jeden z aspekt\u00f3w jako\u015bci opieki medycznej","volume":"21","author":"Szpringer","year":"2015","journal-title":"Med. 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