OBJECTIVES: The survey was meant to find out how much importance males attribute to various factors including patients’ compliance, faith and financial resources, physicians’ expertise and personality, nurses’ attitudes, relatives’ and God’s help and the appropriate medication. Another major aim was to reveal any possible differences between males’ and females’ attitudes to the factors listed and any gender specific differences in the evaluation of individual factors and their relationship with background variables such as health as a value, past major disease or operation, subjective health status, age, education. METHODS: In the non-randomised research quantitative approach was used to investigate males’ personal opinions concerning recovery. The cross-sectional examination included a survey administered in three workplaces. The target population included employees 18-65 years of age. There were 188 questionnaires distributed of which n=147 were assessable, which included n=73 completed by males. RESULTS: There was a significant difference concerning the importance attributed to relatives’ (p= 0.000,), faith (p=0.005) and God’s help (p=0.005). Males considered the role of these factors as less important. Those judging their own health status very bad or quite bad thought that financial resources would have a great impact on recovery. This opinion was significantly characteristic among males with lower levels of education. Physicians’ personality was regarded as less important by males than by females. CONCLUSIONS: There was no significant difference detected between the two genders with regard to the priority order of the examined factors including patients’ compliance, physicians’ expertise and patients’ financial resources. Age proved to have a strong influence on evaluating the different factors.