Table 6.

The most common reasons to forgone care

Number	Causes	Frequency	Percent
1	The financial burden due to the cost of treatment	222	41.5
2	Despair and dissatisfaction with the outcome of treatment	50	9.3
3	Lack of feeling the urge to medication and prescribed treatment	45	8.4
4	Long distances from the health care centers	43	8.0
5	Long waiting time and a long process of treatment	34	6.4
6	Dissatisfaction with the quality of provided care	25	4.7
7	Unwillingness to take medication	25	4.7
8	A lot of family and working activities	22	4.1
9	Use of alternative therapies such as herbal medicines and traditional therapists	16	3.0
10	Inadequate awareness and knowledge of the consequences of forgone treatment	16	3.0
11	The lack of family support for following the treatment process	14	2.6
12	Lack of trust in skills and scientific competence of the medical practitioner or the provider of the service	12	2.2
13	poor physician-patient relationship	7	1.3
14	Inappropriate behavior of health care providers (discriminatory behavior, violence and disrespectful behaviour)	4	.7
Total		535	100.0