“…Countless studies that deal with social support point to its importance as an effi cient factor in protecting and promoting health, involving physical aspects, emotional and psychoaffective in the lives of subjects, and is highlighted in the lives of those who suffer of chronic illness (Abreu- Rodrigues & Seidl, 2013;Rodrigues, Ferreira, & Caliri, 2013;Santos, 2015). This perception in support is referred to by Jussani, Serafi m, and Marcon (2007) as primordial for the maintenance of the subjective well-being of people facing the most diverse situations of psychic suffering and psychiatric disturbances such as suicide, depression, anxiety problems, insomnia, handling stressing situations, alcohol and other drugs abstinence, treating illnesses such as cancer, child school socialization, reactions to hospital emergencies, pregnancy, old age, among others.…”