A Study of Brand Image, Perceived Service Quality, Patient Satisfaction and Behavioral Intention among the Medical Tourists

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-43
Author(s):  
Cham Tat Huei ◽  
Lim Yet Mee ◽  
Aik Nai Chiek
Keyword(s):  
Patient Satisfaction ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Brand Image ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Behavioural Intention ◽  
Perceived Service Quality ◽  
Quota Sampling

Objective- –This paper aims to examine the importance of brand image, and its impact on hospital service quality as perceived by the medical tourists. Moreover, this paper also evaluates the interrelationships among perceived service quality, patient satisfaction, and behavioural intention. Methodology/Technique – Based on quota sampling method, a questionnaire survey was used to collect data from 400 medical tourists to test the hypothesized relationships in this study. This paper contributes to the understanding about the importance of food allergy awareness among public. Findings – The findings from this study indicate that brand image has a significant positive influence on perceived service quality; and brand image is significantly and positively related to medical tourists' behavioural intention (i.e., their revisit intention). The findings also show that level of satisfaction partially mediates the relationship between service quality and behavioural intention among medical tourists. Novelty – This study is one of the very few empirical studies that examine the importance of brand image in the context of medical tourism. Moreover, this study is also one of the few studies that addressed patient satisfaction as a mediator in the healthcare context. Type of Paper Empirical Keywords: Brand Image, Service Quality, Patient Satisfaction, Behavioral Intention, Medical Tourism

Antecedents of hospital brand image and the relationships with medical tourists’ behavioral intention

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 412-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tat Huei Cham ◽  
Yet Mee Lim ◽  
Nai Chiek Aik ◽  
Alexander Guan Meng Tay
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Brand Image ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Measurement Scales ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Perceived Service Quality

Purpose Medical tourism is growing rapidly in the recent years in various Asian countries. The success of the hospitals engaged in medical tourism largely depends on their abilities in maintaining the repeating customers and to attract new customers. Hence, the purpose of this study is to examine the impacts of word-of-mouth and social media on hospital brand image. It also attempts to examine the relationships between brand image, perceived service quality, patient satisfaction and behavioral intention. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire survey was used to collect data from 386 medical tourists to test the proposed model. All the measurement scales adopted in this study were adapted from the existing literature. The data collected in this study were analyzed using both SPSS and structural equation modeling approach via AMOS. Findings The findings from the structural analysis indicated that both word-of-mouth and hospital-generated social media have a significant impact on brand image. Hospital brand image positively influences medical tourists’ perception of service quality, and their perceived service quality is significantly related to their satisfaction, which in turn, leads to their behavioral intention. Originality/value This study is one of the few studies that considers the importance of hospital’s brand image in influencing medical tourists’ perceptions on the quality of healthcare services that they experienced during their medical trips. This research study also raises the significance of word-of-mouth communication and social media that influence hospitals’ brand image, which has been neglected by many studies.

Brand image to loyalty through perceived service quality and patient satisfaction: A conceptual framework

2020 ◽  
pp. 095148482096230
Author(s):  
Udita Taneja
Keyword(s):  
Patient Satisfaction ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Brand Image ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Perceived Service Quality ◽  
Patient Loyalty ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Impact

Brand image (BI) is a relatively new concept in the healthcare sector and its value is important for healthcare organizations to survive in this competitive era. Extant research in academics shows the diversity in determinants of patient satisfaction (PS), perceived service quality (PSQ), loyalty and brand image (BI) in the healthcare sector. The large numbers of existing studies mainly emphasize constructs such as PS, PSQ or the relationship between these two, taking into consideration other factors like cost and loyalty. The purpose of this study is to systematically review and summarize current research as well as propose a conceptual model of hospital brand image and its impact on patient loyalty through PSQ and PS. We provide a research framework for future theoretical and empirical studies on the impact of BI on patient loyalty.

scholarly journals Brand image as the competitive edge for hospitals in medical tourism

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tat Huei Cham ◽  
Boon Liat Cheng ◽  
Mei Peng Low ◽  
Jason Boon Chuan Cheok
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Brand Image ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Perceived Service Quality ◽  
The Impact

Purpose Following promising growth of the international medical tourism industry, competitions within the global market have escalated tremendously with increased involvement by numerous healthcare providers to acquire a share of its disposable income. The brand reputation would hereby play a determining role as a competitive strategy. Specifically, this paper aims to investigate the impact of social and marketing aspects on the brand image of medical tourism-based hospitals, alongside its relationship toward service quality. In turn, the influence of perceived service quality on satisfaction and the perceived value was examined, in view of further potential behavioral intention among medical tourists on healthcare providers in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach The data were collected through a survey questionnaire among medical tourists, with 596 successful cases collected via 6 major private hospitals at 3 popular Malaysian medical tourism locations. Data analysis was then performed using both SPSS and Smart PLS software. Findings The findings from the present study acknowledged the importance of both social (e.g. social media and word-of-mouth communications) and marketing (e.g. hospital advertisement and price perception) aspects toward establishing brand image among medical tourism-based hospitals. Consequently, the brand image would influence perceived service quality among medical tourists; further entail positive impact on behavioral intention, with satisfaction and perceived value as mediators between both factors. Following PLS predict analysis confirming this model’s high predictive capability, it demonstrated close representation to actual medical tourism scenario in Malaysia. Originality/value This study is one of the very few studies that explored the minimally investigated territory on the consequential importance of hospital branding within the medical tourism industry; specifically through extending the literature on the influence of social and marketing efforts toward the formation of brand image.

Hospital service quality as antecedent of patient satisfaction – a conceptual framework

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Swapnarag Swain ◽  
Nirmal Chandra Kar
Keyword(s):  
Patient Satisfaction ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Behavioural Intention ◽  
Hospital Service ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Perceived Service Quality ◽  
Quality Of Outcome

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore dimensions of perceived service quality in hospitals and to develop a conceptual framework showing relationship between hospital service quality, patient satisfaction and their behavioural intention. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on extensive review of existing literature on hospital service quality, patient satisfaction and behavioural intention. Critical analysis of these literature studies has resulted in determining and defining the dimensions of perceived service quality and establishing relationship between hospital service quality, patient satisfaction and behavioural intention. Findings This study has identified six major areas through which patients perceive quality of service in hospitals. These six areas are technical quality, procedural quality, infrastructural quality, interactional quality, personnel quality, social support quality. Further 20 dimensions of hospital service quality are identified under these 6 major areas. These are clinical procedure, quality of outcome, admission, discharge, waiting time, patient safety, billing and price, follow-up, ambience, availability of resources, accessibility, food, staff attitude, personalised attention, information availability, staff competency, trustworthiness, staff diversity, hospital image and social responsibility. The conceptual framework proposes direct relationship between service quality, patient satisfaction and behavioural intention. Originality/value Though many studies have been conducted on hospital service quality, none of them has been able to project all the possible dimensions to measure the same. The “6-Q framework” developed by this study explores all the possible dimensions of perceived service quality in hospitals.

scholarly journals The Structural Relationship among Perceived Service Quality, Perceived Value, and Customer Satisfaction-Focused on Starbucks Reserve Coffee Shops in Shanghai, China

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8633
Author(s):  
Yuhan Ge ◽  
Qing Yuan ◽  
Yaxi Wang ◽  
Keunsoo Park
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Significant Positive Effect ◽  
Coffee Shop ◽  
Perceived Service Quality ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Coffee Shops ◽  
Positive Effect

In today’s increasingly competitive coffee industry, the point of running a good coffee shop is no longer to run a coffee and beverage shop simply, but to focus on the quality of service and the value that customers feel as a result. Previous studies have mainly discussed the customer satisfaction and behavioral intention of restaurants, while few studies have explored the influencing factors of customer satisfaction and behavioral intention of chain coffee shops. Given that the perceived service quality theory and DINESERV model can effectively predict customer satisfaction and behavioral intention, this study took 385 consumers in the first Starbucks Reserve flagship store in China as survey objects. SmartPLS 3.0 software was used to explore the relationship among respondents’ perceived service quality, customer perceived value, satisfaction, and behavioral intention. The results show that service quality has a partially significant positive effect on perceived value. Perceived service quality and customers’ perceived value both have significant positive effects on satisfaction. Customers’ satisfaction has a significant positive effect on their behavioral intention. These results indicate that enterprises should strengthen the emotional bond between consumers and enterprises and improve the reliability, assurance, and empathy of perceived service quality to create a better emotional resonance between consumers and the Starbucks brand to improve customer satisfaction. At the same time, it should also promote the symbolic perceived value of Chinese consumers to Starbucks to realize the sustainable development of coffee-shop operation and consumer repurchase. This study expands the research on the service quality, perceived value, and behavioral intention of coffee chain enterprises in the context of non-habitual coffee-drinking countries. Moreover, it provides case support for the operation and research of regional cultural consumption habits of international catering chain enterprises.

scholarly journals The Effect of Service Quality, Price Perception, and Brand Image on Feeling Value, and Customer Satisfaction at Dian Husada Mojokerto Hospital

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-80
Author(s):  
Indarwati ◽  
Ida Bagus Cempena ◽  
Ida Bagus Udayana Putra
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Brand Image ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
T Test ◽  
Test Reliability ◽  
F Test ◽  
Perceived Service Quality ◽  
Price Perception

This study aims to determine the effect of service quality, perceived brand image price and perceived value on consumer satisfaction at Dian Husada Hospital, Mojokerto. The hypothesis in this study is that there is a partial effect of service quality on price perceptions on perceived value and service quality. And there is a significant effect of perceived service quality, price, brand image and perceived value simultaneously affect customer satisfaction at Dian Husada Hospital in Mojokerto. The population used in this study were 100 consumers at Dian Husada Hospital Mojokerto. The data analysis technique used is validity test, reliability test, classical assumption test, descriptive analysis, multiple linear regression analysis, multiple determination analysis, correlation coefficient analysis. The hypothesis test used is the F test and t test. Based on the t test results of Path Sub-Structure 1, service quality, price perception and brand image has a partial effect on perceived value. Based on the results of the t test Sub-Structure 2, the perceived service quality of price and value has a partial effect on service quality and brand image has no partial effect on customer satisfaction; Based on the results of the study of the F-Test Sub-Structure 1, the Sig. <0.05 is 0.000 <0.005, so the variables of Service Quality, Price Perception, and Brand Image have a significant influence on the Perceived Value. And based on the results of the study of the F-Test Sub-Structure Path 2, the value of Sig. <0.05 is 0.000 <0.005, so that the variables of Service Quality, Price Perception, Brand Image.

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