For the efficacy of SST in schizophrenia, the litera-ture in other core psychiatric disciplines (i.e. psycholo-gy, psychiatry, etc) indicates some conflicting evidenc-es and a limited quality of evidence in psychiatric nurs-ing. With the exemption of a few individual nursing studies, no systematic review is available to date in psychiatric nursing literature. This systematic review of literature was undertaken to answer, whether the SST an effective intervention for adult patients with schizo-phrenia.