Background: Schizophrenia-related violent behavior is a social stigma borne by schizophrenic patients and a highlypainful burden faced by caregivers.Purpose: This study focused on how primary caregivers deal with schizophrenic patient violent behavior and factorsthat affect this burden.Methods: Researchers recruited a purposive sample from the acute wards of a psychiatric hospital in Taipei city.This cross-sectional study studied 100 primary caregivers of schizophrenic patients with a history of violent behavior.Socio-demographic data were collected using structured questionnaires on coping methods and caregiver burden.Results: Results found an average primary caregiver burden score of 30.8 points, indicating a moderate degree of burden.Factors contributing to the total care burden were: patient occupation, caregiver level of education, emotional copingmethod, negative cognitive coping method and violent behavior type. After multiple regression analysis, the twosignificant factors affecting caregiver burden were identified as: Emotional coping method and violent behavior type.Conclusions / Implications for Practice: This study highlighted a higher burden in violent schizophrenic patientcaregivers who use emotional coping methods. Researchers recommended that clinical staff voluntarily assess caregiverburdens and methods of coping with patients' violent behavior in order to help caregivers develop specific andefficient coping strategies to reduce care burden.