objectives: Schizophrenia is a chronic mental illness which requires consistent and long-term support from carers. The objective of this study was to assess the association between caregiving experience and social support towards the outcome of patients with schizophrenia Methods: Sixty patients with schizophrenia and their respective caregivers were selected from a Psychiatric Clinic using non-probability random sampling. The caregivers and patients were assessed with the self-rating questionnaire of the ECI (Experience of Caregiving Inventory) and Multidimensional scale of Perceived social support (MSPss), respectively. The out- comes were assessed using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) and the Personal and Social Performance Scale (PSP) Results: Sixty six per cent of the caregivers were parents and about half (47%) of them had more than 10 years of caregiving experience. The negative caregiving experience was higher than the positive caregiving experience with mean scores of 62.4 and 32.4, respectively. The negative symptoms of ECI had a significant negative correlation with perceived social support on both family and friends subscale with p values of 0.042 and 0.046. respectively. Regarding the factors associated with the outcome of the patients, certain positive (positive personal experience) and negative (need to back up, stigma, negative symptom, effect on family) domains of the ECI were significantly correlated to the scores of PANSS and PSP. Conclusions: Poor or negative caregiving experiences could lead to lower perceived social support by patients. This negative caregiving experience might impair social support and subsequently worsens the patient's prognosis. Good or positive caregiving experiences could improve the prognosis of patients with schizophrenia.