Effectiveness of the NAMI Homefront Program for Military and Veteran Families: In-Person and Online Benefits

What is it about?

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Homefront Program is a six-week peer-taught family education program for families or support persons of service members and of veterans with mental illness. The program is offered in-person or online. The authors surveyed participants of the program to see if it helped improve empowerment, burden, coping, psychological distress, family functioning, experience of caregiving and knowledge of mental illness. The program showed benefits in all categories and benefits were similar for both in-person and online students.

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