PROFESSIONAL HEALTH JOURNAL
Vol 6 No 1 (2024): In Progress issue

Assessing Patient Satisfaction in Public Healthcare: The Impact of Professional Relationships, Skills, and Facility Amenities

Nusrah Samat (Unknown)
Hemarubini R Paramasivam (Unknown)
Fatimah, Siti (Unknown)
Noor Fzlinda Fabeil (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
07 Oct 2024

Abstract

Introduction: Public healthcare services play an essential role in providing health facilities or services for citizens who seek fundamental medical services. Patients’ satisfaction with healthcare services is mainstream as they are the service consumers. Therefore, it reflects how effective the services that have been given by the health care provider are. Objectives: to investigate the influence of relationships and interaction with healthcare professionals, perception of healthcare professional skills, amenities, and registration and administrative procedures towards patient satisfaction. Methods: A total of 160 sets of questionnaires received from the respondent of purposive sampling through the online survey that was analyzed with descriptive and inferential technique of correlation, and regression.Results: The relationship and interaction with healthcare professionals (β = 0.281, p < 0.01), perception of healthcare professionals' skills (β = 0.396, p < 0.01), registration and administration process (β = 0.117, p < 0.01), and evaluation of amenities, accessibility, and facilities (β = 0.164, p < 0.01) were all significant predictors of patient satisfaction. Conclusions: By prioritizing the development of strong professional relationships, improving perceived skills of healthcare providers, optimizing administrative processes, and upgrading facility amenities, healthcare providers and policymakers can foster environments where patient satisfaction and overall healthcare quality thrive.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

PHJ

Publisher

Subject

Medicine & Pharmacology Nursing

Description

Professional health journal is an open access journal with a wide range (Scope) of fields of nursing including basic research in nursing, management nursing, emergencies, and critical nursing, medical-surgical nursing, mental health nursing, maternity nursing, maternity nursing, child nursing, ...