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This study aimed to determine the relationships between the quality of life, health condition, and caring in terms of health practice behaviors of parents of children with developmental disabilities. Two hundred for-ty-three parents of children with developmental disabilities participated. We examined the quality of life; the health practice behavior question-naire comprised details of health condition, caring behavior, and diet, and it used a 10-point scale for scoring. The data were analyzed using a one-way analysis of variance; linear regression was conducted using IBM SPSS Statistics ver. 23.0. The results indicated that there were as-sociations between quality of life, relations with family members, rela-tions with neighbors, living standards, physical condition, and function among the subfactors. There were significant differences between ex-ercise practice behavior, quality of life, relations with family, relations with neighbors, living standards, physical condition and functioning, emotional state, and self-esteem among subfactors. It was found that there were significant differences between diet behavior and quality of life, and physical condition and function, emotional state in sub factor of quality of life. Based on the results of this study, if a health promotion behavior program is developed and applied systematically, it will con-tribute to improving the quality of life for parents’ children with develop-mental disabilities.