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Purposeis research aimed to classify the service delivery pattern by home-visiting nurses for people with schizophrenia living in Japan.Method Nursing care delivered to schizophrenic patients n 422 from 322 Japanese home visiting nursing stations and patients characteristics were examined. e care scores of the 22 psychiatric nursing care categories were classi ed by cluster analysis. One-way analysis of variance and 2 test were used to examine the characteristics of patients and the care category clusters they received.Result Four characteristic clusters emerged: care for living alone; family support for patients who had severe conditions; monitoring for who had other support and support for patients with severe conditions. e ratio of who had a housemate p 0.001 , support from non-nurse home help, p 0.05 , and social functioning GAF: Global Assessment of Functioning, P 0.01 showed signicant di erences between the clusters.Conclusions Characteristics of home visiting nurse users who had schizophrenia and their care delivery patterns were classi ed. Four signi cant care areas emerged, care for living alone, family and the patients support for severe conditions, and monitoring.