Army conducts largest mental health study

What good will another study do considering THEY NEVER DO ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT THEY HAVE ALREADY LEARNED? Redeployments increase the risk of PTSD but they keep doing it. Suicides and attempted suicides went up but they kept repeating the same programs that failed. More studies are not the answer. Learning for what they already discovered in the last 40 years is!

Army conducts largest mental health study
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Story by Sgt. Joshua Holt

CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait – The Army Study To Assess Risk and Resilience in Service members research team is currently conducting a study to better understand the risks and factors associated with mental health, stress and suicide.

The Army STARRS research study is a partnership between The National Institute of Mental Health and the U.S. Army to identify the factors that may pose risks to soldiers’ emotional well-being and overall mental health.

“It’s the largest study of mental health risk and resilience that the military has ever conducted,” said Dr. Kevin Quinn, medical psychologist, NIMH program officer, Army STARRS. “We want to understand what might put a soldier at risk or what might make a soldier resilient to things that can increase or decrease the potential for suicide.”

“What we need to do, and what the study is designed to do is to contact a lot of soldiers,” said Quinn. “We’re on track with all the studies to have interviewed or surveyed 100,000 soldiers.”
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