Introduction: Long and burdening therapeutic treatments of patients with cancers require social support in order to encourage patient’s medical compliance. Family support helps patients remain positive during their treatments so that they can develop physical and psychological fulfillment. This research identifies the correlation between family’s support and the rate of compliance of medical control of patients with cancer.Methods: The design was cross-sectional. The population was 60 patients with cancers who were undertaking treatment and 36 respondents were drawn by using a consecutive sampling technique. The independent variable is family support, while the dependent variable is the rate of compliance of patients with cancers in maintaining their medical control. The data was collected using questionnaires adopted from MMAS-8 (Medication Morisky Adherence Scale) and analyzed by using Chi Square with a significance rate of α ≤ 0.05.Results: The results indicated that the correlation between family’s support and the rate of medical compliance resulted in p=0.006.Conclusion: Supportive family support is very important in the successful treatment of cancer patients, because the family is closest to the patient, they live together, and also they have the opportunity to meet the needs of cancer patients.

COVID-19 has become a global health emergency and has a complex impact on every aspect of people's lives. One of the vulnerable groups is pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers. Psychological well-being needs to be achieved by pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers to be able to get through conditions of uncertainty and threats during the pandemic. The purpose of this study was to analyze the factors that affect psychological well being in pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers during the COVID-19 in Surabaya. This research was an analytic correlational study with a cross sectional approach. The population of this study were all pregnant women and mothers who were breastfeeding with babies aged less than 6 months at the time of data collection, domiciled or resided in Surabaya. The sampling technique in this study was simple random sampling with a total sample of 198 respondents consisting of 130 pregnant women and 68 breastfeeding mothers. The results of the spearman rho test showed that income, history of pregnancy/birth history, history of COVID-19, and family support had an effect on the psychological well being of pregnant and lactating women. The COVID-19 history variable has the largest coefficient value which indicates that this variable has a strong influence on the psychological well being of pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers during the COVID-19 in Surabaya.