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Chapter 6 Consumer Behavior

Chapter 6 Consumer Behavior. Chapter 6 slides for Marketing for Pharmacists, 2nd Edition. Learning Objectives. Describe the steps associated with consumer decision-making. Delineate how each step influences the choices consumers make.

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Chapter 6 Consumer Behavior

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  1. Chapter 6Consumer Behavior Chapter 6 slides for Marketingfor Pharmacists, 2nd Edition

  2. Learning Objectives • Describe the steps associated with consumer decision-making. • Delineate how each step influences the choices consumers make. • Discuss how risk, involvement, control, and expectations affect consumers’ decision-making. • Give a general description of the following models of health behavior: health belief model, theory of reasoned action, theory of planned behavior, transtheoretical model.

  3. Consumer (Patient) Behavior • Understanding consumer behavior is necessary in pricing, merchandising, advertising, personal selling, designing services, and so on. • It helps in knowing who, what, when, where, and how to market. • e.g., diabetes management clinic

  4. The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself. Peter F. Drucker

  5. Frameworks for Understanding Consumer Behavior • Economic man • Social influences • Personal influences

  6. Consumer Purchase Situations

  7. Problem Solving • Extended problem solving • New, high-risk, complex • Limited problem solving • Routine, low-risk • Determines attention and receptivity to information

  8. Need Recognition Consumer Decision Process Information Search Alternative Evaluation Choice Evaluation

  9. Consumer Decision Process Need Recognition Prepurchase Stage Information Search Alternative Evaluation Consumption Stage Choice Postpurchase Evaluation Stage Evaluation

  10. Consumer Decision Process • Need recognition (arousal, interest, desire) • Commercial • Social • Physical • Information search • Internal • External

  11. Consumer Decision Process • Alternative evaluation • Cognitive versus emotional • Salient (important) versus determinant criteria • Consumption • Choice of vendor, channel of distribution, product • Decision rules: cutoffs, overall utility • Postpurchase • Satisfaction versus cognitive dissonance

  12. How might pharmacists influence the decision process for seeking treatment for diabetes? Need Recognition Prepurchase Stage Information Search Alternative Evaluation Consumption Stage Choice Postpurchase Evaluation Stage Evaluation

  13. Variables Affecting Consumer Decisions

  14. Risk (e.g., diabetes) • Financial • Performance • Physical • Social • Psychological Dimensions: severity and likelihood

  15. Involvement (i.e., perceived importance) • Affects information search and processing and ability to be persuaded • Necessary for thoughtful behavior (extended problem solving) • Influenced by • Personal relevance • Object considered • Situation

  16. Customizing services to patient involvement (e.g., diabetes) • Assess patient involvement • For highly involved, greater information can be provided. • For less highly involved, provide simple, short, repetitive messages. • Enhance involvement through education and reducing distractions. Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I'll remember. Involve me and I'll understand. • Confucius (famous Chinese marketer)

  17. Perception of control • Lack of perceived control leads to stress and frustration. • Enhance feelings of control • Provide information about what is going on. • Give control through self-service and choice. • Make service experiences as consistent and predictable as possible.

  18. Health Behavior Models For counseling and intervention strategies commonly used in pharmacy practice

  19. Health belief model • Patient health behaviors are determined by • The degree to which a patient perceives a particular health threat • Whether the patient believes the particular behavior will reduce the threat. Kehoe WA, Katz RC. Health Behaviors and Pharmacotherapy. Ann Pharmacotherapy 1998;32:1076-1085. Ried LD, Christensen DB. A Psychosocial Perspective in the Explanation of Patients’ Drug-Taking Behavior. Soc Sci Med 1988; 27(3): 277-285.

  20. Health belief model • Actions are directly related to • A patient’s feelings of susceptibility to a disease • Concern about worsening of the disease • A belief that the disease will get better with treatment • The patient’s assessment of risks versus benefits • Stimulus that motivates the patient • Internal: signs and symptoms of disease • External: personal pressure from family or medical professionals Nagy VT, Wolfe GR. Cognitive Predictors of Compliance in Chronic Disease Patients. Med Care 1984; 22:912-921. Kehoe WA, KatzRC. Health Behaviors and Pharmacotherapy. Ann Pharmaco 1998;32:1076-1085.

  21. Health belief model Age, Sex, Ethnicity Personality, Knowledge Socioeconomics Perceived Susceptibility or Seriousness Likelihood of Taking Action Perceived Threat • Cues to Action • Education • Symptoms • Media

  22. Theory of reasoned action Beliefs, Importance Attitude Intentions To Act Actual Behavior Subjective Norm Expectations, Importance

  23. Transtheoretical model • States that people progress through five stages when changing a behavior. • These stages identify one’s motivational and behavioral readiness for change. • The success of behavior-changing strategies depends on what stage a person is in.

  24. Stages of change • Stage 1: Precontemplation • No intention of changing in foreseeable future • Efforts to get person to make immediate change will likely meet resistance • Stage 2: Contemplation • Intention to change in foreseeable future but unwilling to act yet

  25. Stages of change • Stage 3: Preparation • Have begun to take small steps toward change in very near future • Stage 4: Action • Have successfully made change in past 6 months • Stage 5: Maintenance • Change more than 6 months ago

  26. Decisional balance Pros (Benefits of change) Cons (Negatives of change) Pre-contemplators and Contemplators

  27. Decisional balance Cons (Negatives of change) Pros (Benefits of change) , Action, Maintenance Preparation

  28. Important points • On average, 40-60% of people in the process of change are in stage 1 or 2. • Many change efforts attempt to change behavior of people who are not ready to take action (stage 1 or 2). The result is resistance and relapse.

  29. Making a change • In stages 1 and 2, focus is on negatives of change. Increasing the likelihood of change requires • Increasing the perceived benefits of change • Increasing people’s confidence that they are able to change. • Stages 3 to 5 consist primarily of managing temptations to slide back into previous undesirable behavior.

  30. Summary • Understanding patient behavior is essential to influencing them. • Models of consumer behavior can help pharmacists increase medication adherence, change smoking behavior, communicate health messages, design services, and influence physician prescribing.

  31. Questions?

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