IRCT2016052425713N1 IRCT 2016-08-08 Mashhad University of Medical Sciences The Effect of Spirituality on caregiver's stress and quality of life of children with leukemia The Effect of Spiritual Support on caregiver's stress and quality of life of children aged 8 to12 with leukemia 2016-05-21 anticipated 60 Complete https://irct.ir/trial/21456 interventional Randomization: Randomized, Blinding: Not blinded, Placebo: Not used, Assignment: Parallel, Purpose: Supportive, Other design features: By randomized table. 2-3 Leukemia. Intervention 1: No intervention is made for control group. Intervention 2: Intervention group: will participate in 5 sessions of sixty minutes each day based on Richards and Bergin pattern focusing on the Islamic rituals and including psycho-spiritual components such as: prayer, trust and appeal, patience, gratitude and forgiveness. In the first session, participants will be asked to put forward their supportive needs in terms of personal experience. During the second session caregivers will be familiar with the role of trust and appeal in getting along with psychological stress caused by child disease and will be trained to know the theoretical bases of trust and appeal, trust as a contrastive strategy to deal with stress, ways to achieve the trust and appeal and How one can use trust and appeal as effective contrastive strategy to convert inappropriate negative excitements to negative excitements. In the third session the role of prayer in solving their problems and the impact of prayer on the process of problem solving is discussed. Also some instructions will be given about the value and importance of prayer, its philosophy, familiarity with the correct practical way of praying, And familiarity with the effects of prayer on the relationship of the individual with God, oneself and others. In the fourth session they will be familiar with the concept of thanksgiving and its effect on reducing negative excitements and effective beliefs will be taught about thanksgiving´s effect to decrease caregivers ´negative excitements and in the last session they will be familiar with the steps of patience and they will be taught about the value of patience, kinds of patience, steps of patience and patience as a strategy to deal with the pressures caused by the child´s illness.