The purpose of this study was to explain the meaning and experience of mothers caring for persons with schizophrenia. A qualitative research method utilizing Husserlian phenomenology was applied. A purposive sample of fifteen mothers who took care of child with schizophrenia. Data were collected using in-depth interviews ad field notes. Audio-tape interviews were transcribed verbatim. Data were analyzed utilizing Colaizzi{7f2019}s method. Findings demonstrated that mothers defined caring for their children with schizophrenia as activities that would cure them from their illness, and the maternal loving, bonding and tender feeling to their children. Caring experiences of mothers that emerged from the data consisted of three major themes :1) perceptions of illness that included stress due to over thinking leads to neurosis and the results of supernatural believes 2) caring behavior included the care during early onset of illness/ having psychotic symptoms and the care curing the period of non active psychoticsymptoms / prevent the relapse and 3) experiences of feelings and emotions as a result of caring for child with schizophrenia. Findings from This study provided better understandings of the meaning and experience of mothers caring for child with schizophrenia. Enhancement our knowledge generated from this study could further guide to improve nursing education, nursing practices, and nursing research related to caring of mothers for sons or daughters with schizophrenia.
