Table 4.

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

Subject of hope	Sociodemographic variables
	Age1	Gender2	Place of living3	Marital status4
Belief in the effectiveness of the treatment	p = 0.123 (R = −0.099)	p = 0.182	p = 0.137	p = 0.334
Belief in contemporary medicine	p = 0.742 (R = −0.02)	p = 0.042	p = 0.059	p = 0.905
Satisfaction with the treatment	p = 0.240 (R = −0.075)	p = 0.004	p = 0.980	p = 0.685
Hope of recovery with a recognition of the seriousness of the illness	p = 0.018 (R = −0.150)	p = 0.003	p = 0.078	p = 0.572
Belief in the effectiveness of an appropriate diet and lifestyle.	p = 0.579 (R = −0.036)	p = 0.211	p = 0.309	p = 0.281
Trust in the physicians in charge	p = 0.478 (R = −0.045)	p = 0.113	p = 0.016	p = 0.128
Intuition regarding recovery	p = 0.038 (R = −0.132)	p = 0.122	p = 0.433	p = 0.922
Belief in nonconventional treatment	p = 0.023 (R = −0.145)	p = 0.096	p = 0.328	p = 0.047
Hope of recovery	p = 0.070 (R = −0.116)	p = 0.009	p = 0.280	p = 0.887

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