Effect of Patient-centered Care to Revisit Intention and Role of Service Quality, Satisfaction and Trust as Transmitting Factors in Specialty Medical Clinic
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study the importance of patient- centered care, service quality, satisfaction, trust and revisit intention, the influence of patient-centered care to revisit intention, the influence of patient-centered care to revisit intention mediated service quality, satisfaction, trust of patients and to test the influence of patient-centered care which has associative variable on service quality, satisfaction and trust to revisit intention in Specialty medical clinic in Northern of Thailand which is exploratory sequential design mix-methods. The sample group consisted of 305 patients who visit the Specialty medical clinic in Northern of Thailand more than 1 time during 2 years. The data was analyse using descriptive statistic with Structural equation modeling of ADANCO and Sobels test program. For qualitative test using interview 16 patients and 8 OWNERS of Specialty medical clinic (Total 24 subjects). Research instrument using in depth interview.
The results of the research found all factor were at the high level of feedback ; trust factor had the highest level follow by satisfaction, patient-centered care, service quality and revisit intention. Patient-centered care had influence directly to revisit intention (Loading factor=0.725). After using mediator and associative variable, loading factor=0.038, non statistically significant (p=0.502). The result on indirectly influence of
chain (3 ways), we found patient-centered care mediate satisfaction to revisit intention