Abstract:
The research aimed 1) to study the quality level of the service, marketing components and committed use of the clinical service in Pakxe of Champasak, 2) to examine the service quality and marketing mixture of 7P affecting the customers' committed use of the service, and 3) to compare the factors that affected the customers' loyalty in using the clinical service in Pakxe as classified by sex, age, educational levels, martial status and monthly incomes. The samples used in the study were those who used the clinical service in Pakxe. A sample of 317 individuals were derived by a simple random sampling. The research instrument was a five-rating scale questionnaire having a confidence value equivalent to .97. Statistics used were percentage, mean, standard deviation, multiple regression analysis, t-test and F-test.
The research findings were as follows.
The service quality, marketing mixture or components of 7P, and loyalty in using the clinical service in Pakxe of Champasak were overall high. Individual aspects of the service quality could be arranged in a descending order as follows: assurance, responsiveness, and empathy. Concerning the marketing components, the aspects could be shown in the following: personnel or staff, products, and prices. Commitment to the clinical service considered, the aspects of this issue could be as follows: a word of mouth, followed by repeated use, sensitivity to price, and complaint-related behavior. There were five variables that could predict the loyalty in using the clinical service. They were reliability, assurance, empathy, price and process, accounting for 59.40%. Another 40.60% accounted for other variables not included in the study. As classified by the personal factors, it was found that the service users different in sex held different views on the commitment to the clinical service at a statistical significance of .05. The service users having different educational levels held different views on loyalty in using the service, reliability, and empathy at a statistical significance of 01. The service users with different monthly incomes held different views on the issue at a statistical significance of .01