Guidelines to Integrate Spirituality and Spiritual Care in Occupational Therapy Education: A Modified Delphi Study

ABSTRACT

This modified Delphi study aimed to develop educational guidelines for integrating spirituality and spiritual care into occupational therapy education. The first round comprised a self-administered questionnaire, the second round used a face-to-face workshop, and last round reviewed the developed educational guidelines, which reached the highest agreement and median values greater than 3.25. A panel of 18 comprised occupational therapy educators, clinicians, and nursing experts were recruited. A total of 126 out of 142 items reached the highest agreements from the panel participants, categorized based on the content knowledge-based, importance, skills, ethics, pedagogical approaches, teaching and learning strategies, and assessment of student learning.

KEYWORDS:

• Education
• modified Delphi
• occupational therapy
• spiritual care
• spirituality

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the University of the Western Cape for granting permission to conduct the study. We are grateful for all the participants for their participation in the study.

Declaration of conflicting interests

Any opinion, finding, and conclusion or recommendation expressed in this material is that of the author(s), and the National Research Foundation (NRF) does not accept any liability in this regard.

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Funding

This work is based on the research supported in part by the NRF of South Africa for the grant, Unique Grant No. 93992.