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NAMI Montana is delighted that the first major research study that pre-deployment mental health screenings has a major positive impact on deploying servicemembers has just been released.

The results of the study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry show that more aggressive efforts to question and counsel GIs about their mental health reduce by nearly 80% the number who develop behavioral health illnesses during combat. The study also shows that 54% fewer soldiers contemplated suicide and that the number who needed to be sent home from Iraq with mental health problems dropped by nearly 70%. Read more about the study here.

NAMI Montana has been a long-time advocate for pre-deployment screenings and we want to thank President Obama, Senator Baucus, Senator Tester, Congressman Rehberg, and the late Senator Ted Kennedy for listening to NAMI and the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) on this critical issue even before the screenings were proven effective.

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