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Does a Primary Health Clinic for Formerly Incarcerated Women Increase Linkage to Care?
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- Peer support services for individuals with health-related needs reentering the community after incarceration: a scoping review of program elements and outcomes.Health & justice · 2025Pooled it
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- Influence of gender discrimination on the mental health of females inmates: a systematic review.Revista espanola de sanidad penitenciariaPooled it
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- Overall and substance use-specific healthcare utilization among individuals with and without criminal justice involvement in Ontario, Canada.International journal of prison health · 2025Article
- Impact of Changes in Criminal-Legal Practices During the COVID-19 Pandemic on the HIV Risk Behaviors of Women Who Use Drugs: Protocol for a Multimethods Qualitative Study.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Determinants of access to primary healthcare for formerly incarcerated women transitioning into the community: a systematic review of the literature.BMJ public health · 2024Article
- Care Transitions for Incarcerated Pregnant People: A Needs Assessment.Journal of correctional health care : the official journal of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care · 2024Article
- Community-based substance use treatment programs for reentering justice-involved adults: A scoping review.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2024Article
- Pre-exposure prophylaxis implementation during incarceration: Perspectives of formerly incarcerated men and women.PloS one · 2024Article
- HIV/STI/HCV Risk Clusters and Hierarchies Experienced by Women Recently Released from Incarceration.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Enhancing community integration after incarceration: findings from a prospective study of an intensive peer support intervention for veterans with an historical comparison group.Health & justice · 2022Article
- Female Opioid Court Participants' Narratives of Siloed Medical, Legal, and Social Service Sector Interactions to Inform Future Integrated Interventions.Journal of correctional health care : the official journal of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care · 2022Article
- Cost savings of a primary care program for individuals recently released from prison: a propensity-matched study.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Trauma, Mental Health Distress, and Infectious Disease Prevention Among Women Recently Released From Incarceration.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Health and Health Service Needs: Comparison of Older and Younger Women with Criminal-Legal Involvement in Three Cities.Journal of aging and health · 2022Article
- The Transitions Clinic Network: Post Incarceration Addiction Treatment, Healthcare, and Social Support (TCN-PATHS): A hybrid type-1 effectiveness trial of enhanced primary care to improve opioid use disorder treatment outcomes following release from jail.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2021Article
- Healthcare-induced trauma in correctional facilities: a qualitative exploration.Health & justice · 2021Article
- Healthcare beliefs, health information seeking, and healthcare setting preferences among women who inject drugs by community supervision status.Health & justice · 2021Article
- Influence of social determinants of health and substance use characteristics on persons who use drugs pursuit of care for hepatitis C virus infection.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis study examined a primary care-based program to address the health needs of women recently released from incarceration by facilitating access to primary medical, mental health, and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment. STUDY
designPeer community health workers recruited women released from incarceration within the past 9 months into the Women's Initiative Supporting Health Transitions Clinic (WISH-TC). Located within an urban academic medical center, WISH-TC uses cultural, gender, and trauma-specific strategies grounded in the self-determination theory of motivation. Data abstracted from intake forms and medical charts were examined using bivariate and multivariable regression analyses.
resultsOf the 200 women recruited, 100 attended the program at least once. Most (83.0%) did not have a primary care provider before enrollment. Conditions more prevalent than in the general population included psychiatric disorders (94.0%), substance use (90.0%), intimate partner violence (66.0%), chronic pain (66.0%), and hepatitis C infection (12.0%). Patients received screening and vaccinations (65.9%-87.0%), mental health treatment (91.5%), and SUD treatment (64.0%). Logistic regression revealed that receipt of mental health treatment was associated with number of psychiatric (adjusted odds ratio [AOR], = 4.09; p < .01), and social/behavioral problems (AOR, 2.67; p = .04), and higher median income (AOR, 1.07; p = .05); African American race predicted lower receipt of SUD treatment (AOR, 0.08; p < .01).
conclusionsAn innovative primary care transitions program successfully helped women recently released from incarceration to receive medical, mental health, and SUD treatment. Primary care settings with specialty programs, including community health workers, may provide a venue to screen, assess, and help recently incarcerated women access needed care.
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