Siblings of persons with schizophrenia are important in providing long-term social support to
the patients. Interventions addressing their needs are very sparse. Hence, this study aimed
at testing the short-term effects of brief need based psychoeducation on knowledge, self-
stigma, and burden among siblings of persons with schizophrenia. In this prospective
controlled open label trial, 80 siblings of persons with schizophrenia were allocated in equal
numbers to the brief need based psychoeducation group and the treatment-as-usual group …