| Themes | Sub themes | Categories |
| 1 Meaning of secure attachment | 1.1 Providing good care | 1) Giving the best care 2) Love 3) Caring for older adults |
| - | 1.2 Connection with older adults | 1) Attachment to parents 2) The responsibility of the youngest child |
| 2 Factors affecting the secure attachment of caregivers who care for older adults | 2.1Gender: being female affecting secure attachment | 1) Females providing better care and understanding of older adults 2) Females being more delicate 3) Females being more |
| - | - | females being more |
| - | - | inclined to touch |
| - | 2.2 Satisfaction affecting secure attachment | 1) Thinking that they are happy 2) Anticipating the future |
| - | 2.3 Empathy affecting | 1) Being afraid of |
| secure attachment | making older adults feel | |
| - | regret | |
| - | 2) Doing good without | |
| - | expecting anything in | |
| - | return | |
| - | 3) Being moral | |
| - | caregivers | |
| Themes | Sub themes | Categories |
| - | - | 4) Keeping a sense of humor |
| - | 2.4 Caregivers’ health status affecting secure attachment |
1) Caregivers staying healthy |