Objective To explore the effectiveness of mental rehabilitation group management on the survival skills of community patients with schizophrenia.Methods Totally 106 community patients with mental disorder registered at a sub-district health service center in Hangzhou between January 2014 and August 2016 were equally divided into an intervention group and a control group according to the random number table. The patients in both groups received original drug treatment and regular rehabilitation training, while the patients in the intervention group, on this basis, received mental rehabilitation group management activities for 4 weeks. The effectiveness of this intervention was measured and compared with survival skills training scale (SST) and Social Disability Screening Schedule (SDSS) before and after the intervention.Results Four weeks later, the SST score of the patients in the intervention group increased from (33.11±1.88) to (70.03±2.15), and their SDSS score decreased from (16.68±0.38) to (8.92±0.32), showing that they had better rehabilitation effects than the patients in the control group (t=-12.952, -14.760;P<0.01).Conclusions The model of mental rehabilitation group management can effectively improve the survival skills and interpersonal skills of community patients with schizophrenia, thereby helping them to return to the society successfully.