ASSESSING THE LEVEL OF COLLABORATIVE CARE AMONG HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS OF OSUN STATE UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL

INTRODUCTION : It has been established in different studies that the absence of inter-professional collaboration in the health sector has negative impact on both the health workers and care outcome. This is a threat to provision of health care services. AIM : The objective of this study is to assess the level of collaborative care among healtheare providers in UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, Osun State. METHODOLOGY: The study adopted a descriptive cross-sectional study design that used stratified sampling technique to select 255 healthcare workers, to whom self-structured questionnaire were administered to obtain data on study objective. The data were analyzed using SPSS (version 25). RESULT : The result revealed that there was no practice of collaborative care among health professionals in UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital. About three-quarters of respondents, 72 (72%) strongly disagreed with the practice of collaborative care among themselves. Among all the six challenges investigated in the study, the narcissistic personalities of some healthcare workers hac the greatest hindrance to collaborative care. It was seconded by the narcissism of doctors and inability of medical staff to seek opinion CONCLUSION : The study concluded that there is no collaborative care practice amon respondents of different profession. Similarly, challenges is posed to information flow an hinders the performance of healthcare services and its outcome on the patient. The researche recommends that the hospital management should organise workshop and seminar on importance of collaborative care for all staff.