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Patients with hemodialysis therapy will undergo lifelong therapy to maintain their health while undergoing therapy the patient will experience burnout, stress, and feel the side effects of therapy. Coping mechanisms that occur in hemodialysis patients are not always adaptive, they also tend to maladaptive coping mechanisms such as denial, denial, and even avoidance. Social support is needed to change the mechanism of maladaptive coping into adaptive. The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship of social support to the ability of coping mechanisms of hemodialysis patients. The study was conducted on 30 HD patients and analyzed using Chi-Square. The result is a significance value of less than alpha of 0.050 which means that there is a relationship between social support and coping mechanisms at an error rate of 5 percent.