• Turikumwenamungu Jean Bosco
• Ernest Safari
• Monica Mochama

Inter-professionals collaboration is necessary from varying disciplines to ensure that clinicians teams are efficient and able to provide collaboration, and joint decision making between the clinicians and counselors or psychologists in all areas of treatment planning and caring clients with highest quality of care ,in order to reach a determined outcomes ,regardless of the areas of specialization of hospital staff, nurse ,midwife, physician should remove any related factors which can hinder inter-professional collaboration in daily basis activity. Therefore, the study sought to establish factors influencing inter-professional collaboration among the clinicians in use of counseling services in selected two hospitals of Kigali City. The specific objectives were to establish professional attitude related, organizational related factors and level of inter-professional collaboration among clinicians in use of counseling services in Nyarugenge and Muhima District Hospital. The study employed a cross Sectional Survey Research Design and Self-Administered Questionnaire to collect data from 249 clinicians. Purposive sampling was used to choose the research site due the high number of health care workers and accessibility of the site. A simple random sampling technique was used to sample the nurses, midwives and physicians respectively. Data was analyzed using SPSS and relationships between variables were tested using correlation analysis and multiple regression. The study established that Professional attitude related factors (β=0,054, p=.606≥ p=0.05), Organizational related factors (β=0.072, p=0.491≥ p=0.05). The study concludes that professional attitude related factors determined an important influence on inter-professional collaboration such as the clinicians were not prepared in their pre-service training the concept of interprofessional collaboration with counselors or psychologists and the regulatory bodies did not instruct them to collaborate with the counselors or psychologists. The study, therefore, recommended that the hospital administration should strengthen inter-professional collaboration among clinicians and counselors or psychologists through adequate sensitization and provision of more resources in terms of financing. The study also recommends that the Hospital administration should include the Continuous Professional Development on Inter-professional Collaboration. Moreover, the study recommends that Hospital administration should organize team building sessions among the health care professionals to enable good working relations.

Interprofessional collaboration, Clinicians, Counseling services, associated factors

"Inter-Professional Collaboration among Clinicians in Use of Counseling Services and Associated Factors at Selected District Hospitals in Kigali", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 1, page no.f151-f166, January-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2401520.pdf

"Inter-Professional Collaboration among Clinicians in Use of Counseling Services and Associated Factors at Selected District Hospitals in Kigali", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 1, page no. ppf151-f166, January-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2401520.pdf