ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2017
Assessing needs for psychiatric treatment in prisoners: 1. Prevalence of disorder.
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- What matters to magistrates when considering diversion into mental health treatment?Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2024Article
- Exploring the relationship between depression and delinquency: a sibling comparison design using the NLSY.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Who gets diverted into treatment? a study of defendants with psychosis.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2024Article
- Understanding the mental health needs of Scotland's prison population: a health needs assessment.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- The power of negative and positive episodic memories.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2022Review
- Prison inmates with court-ordered treatments: are they really different?Annals of general psychiatry · 2022Article
- Arrest history and psychopathology among veterans at risk for suicide.Psychological services · 2022Article
- Psychiatric disorders and comorbidity in a Spanish sample of prisoners at the end of their sentence: Prevalence rates and associations with criminal history.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundHigh levels of psychiatric morbidity in prisoners have important implications for services. Assessing Needs for Psychiatric Treatment in Prisoners is an evaluation of representative samples of prisoners in a male and a female prison in London. This paper reports on the prevalence of mental disorders. In a companion paper, we describe how this translates into mental health treatment needs and the extent to which they have been met.
methodsPrisoners were randomly sampled in a sequential procedure based on the Local Inmate Data System. We interviewed roughly equal numbers from the following groups: male remand; male sentenced prisoners (Pentonville prison); and female remand; female sentenced prisoners (Holloway prison). Structured assessments were made of psychosis, common mental disorders, PTSD, personality disorder and substance abuse.
resultsWe interviewed 197 male and 171 female prisoners. Psychiatric morbidity in male and female, sentenced and remand prisoners far exceeded in prevalence and severity than in equivalent general population surveys. In particular, 12% met criteria for psychosis; 53.8% for depressive disorders; 26.8% for anxiety disorders; 33.1% were dependent on alcohol and 57.1% on illegal drugs; 34.2% had some form of personality disorder; and 69.1% had two disorders or more. Moreover, in the year before imprisonment, 25.3% had used mental health services.
conclusionsThese rates of mental ill-health and their similarity in remand and sentenced prisoners indicate that diversion of people with mental health problems from the prison arm of the criminal justice system remains inadequate, with serious consequences for well-being and recidivism.
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