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ArticleJournal of correctional health care : the official journal of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care2021

Weight Gain and Mental Health in the Canadian Prison Population.

Claire Johnson, Jean-Philippe Chaput, Amélie Blanchard, Lise Dubois

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Article in Journal of correctional health care : the official journal of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. The State of Mental Health Services for Incarcerated Adults in Ontario: A Scoping Review.International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Claire JohnsonPopulation Health Department, Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Jean-Philippe ChaputHealthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Amélie BlanchardÉcole des hautes études publique, Université de Moncton, Moncton, New-Brunswick, Canada.
Lise DuboisSchool of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
University of Ottawa · CAInstitute of Population and Public Health · CAUniversité de Moncton · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most inmates gain excessive bodyweight during incarceration in Canadian federal penitentiaries. It is currently unknown if the weight gain is related to participants' higher prevalence of mental illness and/or psychotropic medication use. This study examined how weight change (kg) and body mass index (BMI) change (kg/m

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Mental HealthPrisonsBody Mass IndexCanadaHumansWeight Gaininmatesmental illnessobesitypsychotropic medicationweight gain

Identifiers

PMID34232764
PMCPMC9041388
OpenAlexW3138426398

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Registered trials

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