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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics 1,410 Medicine, School of Medicine 822 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology 641 Pediatrics, School of Medicine 485 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 444 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry 407 Paus, Christoph M. E. 404 Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo 402 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory 390 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering 361 Goncharov, Maxim 352 Busza, Wit 321 Stephans, George S. F. 319 Cali, Ivan Amos 312 Klute, Markus 312 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences 306 Wyslouch, Boleslaw 287 Department of Medicine, IU School of Medicine 286 MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research 268 Wang, J. 264 Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology 262 Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru 247 Zhang, L. 243 Vorobyev, A. 242 Sun, L. 240 Popov, A. 238 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 227 Li, W. 223 Zhang, Y. 218 Xu, Z. 217 see all ...

en_US 11,066 English 5,910 en_ZA 1,748 spa 164 Afrikaans 65 Spanish / Castilian 50 Turkish 30 eng 25 af_ZA 23 French 15 Italian 5 German 2 Background: Spiritual care is a key component of palliative care, but it has been overlooked and understudied in low- and middle-income country contexts, especially in Africa. In this study we sought to establish what the current spiritual care practices are in hospice palliative care settings in South Africa with a focused view on what spiritual care training is currently offered and what training needs still remain unmet. Methods: We explored spiritual care practices, and training needs, through a national quantitative online study of palliative care organisations in South Africa registered with the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa. A survey was sent to representatives of all member organisations listed on the national database of Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa. Viable data from 41% (n = 40) member organisations were analysed through the use of simple statistics. Results: An expressed need (75%; n = 30) was recorded for the development of a national spiritual care curriculum. Although 48% (n = 20) of the member organisations were willing to participate in the development of a spiritual care curriculum, 37% (n = 14) could not participate, citing financial (n = 27), time (n = 31) and expertise constraints (n = 22). A set of hard and soft skills were suggested to suit the diverse South African context. Conclusions: Spiritual care was seen by participants as a key component of palliative care. International curricula in spiritual care, while useful, do not offer easy adaptation to the diversities of South Africa. A bespoke spiritual care curriculum was called for, for diverse South Africa. 1 Español 1 en-ZA 1 other 1 see all ...