The purpose of this study was to find if any correlation exists between quality of life (QOL) as self-reported by schizophrenic patients living in community, and their level of satisfaction regarding the home-visit psychiatric nursing care they receive. The subjects were 30 schizophrenic patients living in Prefecture "A" with a history of less than 5 years of home-visit nursing care. In addition, the subjects have had repeated readmissions, yet the length of their community living is at least two years in total. Subjects' responses were obtained through interview surveys. Clinical features were extracted from medical records and Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) records were requested from their primary doctors. Results of descriptive statistics, variance analysis, and correlated fhnction indicated that subjective QOL was lower than that of healthy subjects shown in previous studies, and clinical features and psychological symptoms were not in correlation with subjective QOL. It is difficult to recognize a correlation between home-visit psychiatric nursing care satisfaction and self-reported QOL. It is suggested that although their need for home-visit psychiatric nursing care is satisfied, the patients' subjective QOL may be lowered because of having to compromise with reality in order to adapt to community living. Thus, the psychiatric patients' satisfaction with home-visit psychiatric nursing should be understood as separate from and on a different level from their subjective QOL.