Hope of Recovery in Patients in the Terminal Phase of Cancer under Palliative and Hospice Care in Poland

Table 4

Sociodemographic variables which show statistically significant codependencies regarding hope in the context of health.

Subject of hope	Sociodemographic variables
	Age^1	Gender^2	Place of living^3	Marital status^4
Belief in the effectiveness of the treatment	()
Belief in contemporary medicine	()
Satisfaction with the treatment	()
Hope of recovery with a recognition of the seriousness of the illness	()
Belief in the effectiveness of an appropriate diet and lifestyle.	()
Trust in the physicians in charge	()
Intuition regarding recovery	()
Belief in nonconventional treatment	()
Hope of recovery	()

Analysis based on ¹Spearman’s coefficient, ²Mann-Whitney test, ³Median test, and ⁴Kruskal-Wallis test.