Table 3.

Main subcategories, categories, theme, and emerged from data analysis

Subcategories	Categories	Theme
Asking God for help	Spirituality in caregiving	Effort to maintain well-being
Trusting in God’s will
Relief caused by spirituality
Accepting of the child’s conditions	Acceptance and adjustment
Adjusting to the life condition
Optimistic attitude towards care and life	Optimism and hopefulness
Hopeful about future
Comforting as a source of hope
Trying to be self-controlled in caregiving	Self-control and patience
Being patient in hard conditions of caregiving
Seeking support	Management of psychological needs
Releasing emotions
Ability to meet one’s own and family members’ psychological needs