The Effect of Service Quality on the Revisiting Willingness - A Case Study of Health Care Workers Under the COVID-19 Epidemic
Ya-Ting Chen12*, Shu-Chen Yang3
1Master of International Business Administration, National Kaohsiung University, 2Ph.D. student, Graduate Institute of Sexuality, Shu-Te University of Science and Technology 3Director, Center for Social Network Innovation, National Kaohsiung University *Correspondence: Ya-Ting Chen cyt0602@gmail.com
Abstract
The COVID-19 epidemic has caused a supply shortage in nursing labor force. However, the public did not expect less service quality from nurse. In addition, medical institutions hope they could increase patients’ perceived value and their willingness to hospital revisits for generating greater revenue and maintain operations. The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of the service quality at the hospital on patients' perceived value and their revisit willingness under the period of COVID-19 epidemic. A total of 453 valid samples were collected. Statistical analysis was performed including descriptive statistics, analysis of variance, and correlation analysis. The study found that (a) service quality had a significant positive effect on perceived value; (b) service quality had a significant positive effect on willingness of hospital revisits; (c) perceived value had a significant positive effect on willingness of hospital revisits; (d) there were significant differences among ages in terms of service quality, perceived value, and willingness of hospital revisits. The results indicated that if people feel that hospitals and nursing staff were professional, they would be more willing to revisit the hospitals. The public gives high level of recognition to health care work forces showed a good understanding and tolerance for them. However, people had high expectations of caregiving, such as things to be solved before happening, or prompt services. In conclude, health care is often understaffed or delayed by demand, therefore, it takes mutual understanding between caregivers and the public to encourage and grow the patient-care relationship.
Key words: Service quality; Perceived value; Willingness to reaccept service