The Perception of Inter-Professional Rivalry among Health Workers and Its Effect on Health Service Delivery in University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin Kwara State, Nigeria.

Mariam Dere, University of Ilorin

The healthcare system has been functioning sub-optimally due to recurring challenges within and external to it. The existence of Inter-professional rivalry among health workers in hospitals especially in Nigeria and its impact on healthcare service delivery cannot be overemphasized Descriptive statistics and a Chi-square test was used to identify the demographic information, causes, and effects of inter-professional rivalry. An unpaired t-test was used to determine any statistically significant differences in the perception and effects of inter-professional rivalry based on socio-demographic variables. The significance level (a) was set at 0.05. Also, logistic regression was used to determine the impact of inter-professional conflicts on healthcare delivery. Associations and Differences between variables were assessed by multivariate analyses and ANOVA. Over Ninety-seven percent (97%) of 413 respondents perceived the existence and non-existence, causes of rivalry among health workers. The conceptual framework proved to be strong explaining 30% of the variance (adjusted R square= 0.301)