A study of the Nursing Service Quality and Satisfaction that Admitted Patients Perceived: being used SERVQUAL.
10.4040/jkan.2002.32.4.506
- Author:
Mi Aie LEE
1
Author Information
1. Department of Nursing,College of Medicine,Dongguk University, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Hospital Nursing Service;
Healthcare Quality;
Access;
Evaluation
- MeSH:
Demography;
Hospitals, General;
Humans;
Korea;
Nursing Service, Hospital;
Nursing Services*;
Nursing*;
Quality of Health Care;
Surveys and Questionnaires;
Statistics as Topic
- From:
Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
2002;32(4):506-518
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
PURPOSE: This study was performed to measure the nursing service quality being used SERVQUAL model and satisfaction that the admitted patients perceived. METHOD: The questionnaire founded on the SERVQUAL was developed and distributed to 300 patients at the three general hospitals in three provincial city, Korea. For data analysis, Cronbach's alpha frequencies, percentages, paired t-test, Pearson Correlation Coefficient were used. RESULT: In expectation, patients most highly perceived the assurance factor that was one among the 5 factors being constituted nursing service. In performance, patients most highly perceived the responsiveness factor. The performance degrees of the 5 factors and 20 attributes being constituted nursing service did not exceed the expectation degree of those. So the calculated figures for nursing service quality of the three subjected hospitals were all minus. In relation of the patients' demographics and nursing service characteristics to their general satisfaction, patients' sex, age, income and the all factors and attributes of nursing service had relation to their general satisfaction. CONCLUSION: It could be concluded that the nursing service quality of the three subjected hospitals was poor and the patients' demographic and nursing service characteristics had relation to their general satisfaction.
