Abstract:
In this research, the researcher are interested to investigate factors that affect respondent's
assessment on the quality of the patient meal such as food quality, environment at
hospitals setting, and patient factors. Besides that, the researcher also interested to
determine the most respondents' food preferences towards hospitals meal such as intrinsic
factors and personal factors. Furthermore, the researcher also would like to identify if
exist relationship between quality of hospitals meal, environment in hospitals setting and
patient factors with their food preferences. Therefore, a questionnaire was developed to
collect the data. A 7-point Likert scale allowed subjects to rate their answers from
strongly disagree to strongly agree. The questionnaire then was answered by 4 7
respondents; 17 were self-administered and 30 were using online survey. To assess the
factor that may affect patients assessment on meal served and patients' food preference,
mean score was used. T -test was used to compared self-administered and online survey
answered.
