The lifetime prevalence rate of schizophrenia in Taiwan is approximately 2.3–3/1,000 (Yeh, Hwu, &Chang, 1989). Among patients with schizophrenia,approximately 56.5% suffer from AHs (Ho, 1996). Thus far, few studies have explored the self-care management of AHs among inpatients with schizophrenia. Because these patients live in institutions, they need to follow regular daily activities. Such activities may limit the patients’ options to use strategies to deal with AHs as they wish. For patients in wards for those with chronic illness, limitations may be particularly severe. Because few health care providers are available in these units, understanding the patients’ self-management strategies is an important task. Such an understanding would enable health care providers to more effectively help these patients deal with their AHs. To the best of the research team’s knowledge, no study has focused on understanding the symptom management of AHs in Taiwanese inpatients with schizophrenia. Therefore, this study was designed to fill that gap in knowledge.