Adherence to medication: A nation-wide study from the Children’s Cancer Hospital, Egypt

Table 2 Parents’ report of the intention to attend the next chemotherapy treatment schedule n (%)

Characteristics	Non-adherent (n = 123)	Adherent(n = 58)	P-value1
Optimistic regarding the results so far	5 (4)	8 (14)	0.028
Hope treatment will prove to be effective	46 (38)	31 (53)	0.054
Believe the treatment is effective	2 (2)	2 (4)	0.593
Pursue for child’s life, although treatment is of no use	86 (70)	28 (48)	0.005
Scared that child will die if discontinued treatment	99 (81)	27 (47)	< 0.0001
Pursue according to religious beliefs, though treatment is of no use	69 (57)	30 (53)	0.632
Other	3 (2)	3 (5)	0.387

¹Using Fisher’s exact test to produce P-values.