Fit for prison: Special population health and fitness programme evaluation

Cashin, Andrew; Potter, Emily; Stevens, Warren; Davidson, Kerri; Muldoon, Diane

doi:10.1080/17449200802473131

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“…The negative health behaviors documented in this paper can, if modified, reduce many future health risks. Our findings strengthen the argument for prisons to enable exercise as a public health intervention, with demonstrated benefits including improved physical and mental health [21,27,28,29,30,31,32], and reduced aggression [33], and inmate-identified benefits in one review including improved self-esteem, confidence, and the construction of a new identity [81]. Incarceration should be seen as an opportunity for positive behavior change, and it is encouraging that inmates with pre-incarceration harmful substance use seem particularly able to adopt such changes.…”

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confidence: 73%

“…Many of the barriers to exercise identified by substance users, such as a lack of time, transportation, or finances [8,26] can be easily removed in incarceration settings. Exercise interventions among inmates have increased fitness and functional cardiorespiratory capacity [27,28,29,30], improved psychological well-being [21,28,31,32], and reduced aggression [33]. Only two of these studies reported on inmates with some sort of harmful substance use: 105 inmates with “substance abuse problems” pre-incarceration, no diagnosis reported, self-reported improved physical fitness and alleviated anxiety, stress, and depression [28], and 19 inmates in methadone maintenance treatment improved strength and cardiorespiratory capacity [30].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Inmates with Harmful Substance Use Increase Both Exercise and Nicotine Use Under Incarceration

Muller

Havnes

Rognli

et al. 2018

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Exercise is increasingly understood as an important resource for people who engage in harmful substance use, including those in prison. Little is known about how inmates adopt various health behaviors during incarceration, without interventions. This cross-sectional study analyzed self-reports from 1464 inmates in Norwegian prisons in 2013–2014, compared them according to harmful substance use pre-incarceration, and explored changes in exercise and nicotine use during incarceration. Results were presented in accordance with the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) guidelines. Inmates with harmful substance use reported higher rates of smoking, smokeless tobacco, and physical inactivity pre-incarceration than inmates without harmful use. However, inmates with harmful use also exhibited more behavioral changes: they adopted exercise, ceased smoking, and adopted smokeless tobacco at higher rates during incarceration than the non-harmful group, to the extent that inmates with harmful use exercised during incarceration more. Exercise is being taken up by a significant proportion of inmates, and may in particular be a replacement behavior for substance use. However, unhealthy behaviors also begin or are maintained. If prisons were used as an arena to facilitate healthy behaviors, the public health benefits to a marginalized group such as substance-using inmates could be substantial.

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confidence: 73%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Inmates with Harmful Substance Use Increase Both Exercise and Nicotine Use Under Incarceration

Muller

Havnes

Rognli

et al. 2018

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“…Our rates of attendance (77%) and exercise dropout (48%) were similar to those reported in previous studies of combined exercise in prison, which ranged from 57% to 75% 8,10,24 and from 12% to 50%, 8–10,24 respectively. Interestingly, all of these studies were randomized controlled trials of group-based interventions in men.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…6 Given that prison inmates also do not undertake regular physical activities, 7 it is possible that the combination of being a prison inmate and having a psychiatric disorder may exacerbate the tendency towards physical inactivity. There are very few peer-review studies on increasing exercise in the prison population, [8][9][10] and none investigating exclusively prisoners with psychiatric disorders. Understanding the feasibility and effects of exercise-based interventions on the health of prison inmates with psychiatric disorders is both a challenge and an opportunity for the public health and scientific community.…”

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Feasibility and effects of an exercise-based intervention in prison inmates with psychiatric disorders: the PsychiActive project randomized controlled trial

Bueno‐Antequera

Oviedo‐Caro

2019

Clin Rehabil

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Objective: To evaluate the feasibility and effects of a 12-week intervention combining aerobic and strength exercises in prison inmates with psychiatric disorders. Design: Two parallel-group, randomized controlled trials. Setting: A psychiatric prison hospital. Subjects: Forty-one men prison inmates (mean age ± SD = 38.2 ± 9.2 years, mean prison duration ± SD = 2.6 ± 2.5 years) with psychiatric disorders (primarily personality disorder, n = 27; mean illness duration ± SD = 12.0 ± 10.5 years). Interventions: Participants were randomly allocated to intervention group consisted of exercise plus usual care ( n = 21) or control group which received usual care ( n = 20) for 12 weeks. The exercise programme included three weekly sessions of group-based moderate-to-high intensity combined exercises designed and supervised by exercise professionals. Main measures: Fitness and anthropometric measures were assessed using field-based tests (6-minute walk, Incremental Shuttle Walk, Arm-Curl, and Chair-Stand), handgrip dynamometry, bioelectrical impedance, and waist and hip circumferences. Results: There were no adverse events, and 10 intervention participants withdrew. The remaining 11 participants attended a mean of 28 sessions, of which nine met the compliance criteria. Between-group change differences substantially favoured the compliance intervention group for the 6-minute walk (+21.2%), Incremental Shuttle Walk (+33.9%), Arm-Curl (+13.8%), waist (−3.5%), waist/height0.5 (−1.7%) (−2.7%), waist/hip (−3.4%), and Body Shape Index (−3.3%) (−3.5%). Additional analysis showed beneficial effects of exercise participation on handgrip strength. Conclusion: The intervention was safe, had a high dropout rate, and seemed to be effective for improving fitness and anthropometric measures in men prison inmates with psychiatric disorders who attended and participated in the exercise sessions.

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“…In conclusion, CRT allows to reach better aerobic capacity, which promotes and maintains health, and an optimal caloric expenditure [37]. This training protocol guarantees a strength level sufficient to sustain daily living that is made up of mostly sub-maximal-strength tasks and a good level of flexibility and agility that could help this special population to reduce injuries and consequent chronic diseases [38].…”

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Benefits of Selected Physical Exercise Programs in Detention: A Randomized Controlled Study

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Cagno

Fiorilli

et al. 2013

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The aim of the study was to determine which kind of physical activity could be useful to inmate populations to improve their health status and fitness levels. A repeated measure design was used to evaluate the effects of two different training protocols on subjects in a state of detention, tested pre- and post-experimental protocol.Seventy-five male subjects were enrolled in the studyand randomly allocated to three groups: the cardiovascular plus resistance training protocol group (CRT) (n = 25; mean age 30.9 ± 8.9 years),the high-intensity strength training protocol group (HIST) (n = 25; mean age 33.9 ± 6.8 years), and a control group (C) (n = 25; mean age 32.9 ± 8.9 years) receiving no treatment. All subjects underwent a clinical assessmentandfitness tests. MANOVA revealed significant multivariate effects on group (p < 0.01) and group-training interaction (p < 0.05). CRT protocol resulted the most effective protocol to reach the best outcome in fitness tests. Both CRT and HIST protocols produced significant gains in the functional capacity (cardio-respiratory capacity and cardiovascular disease risk decrease) of incarcerated males. The significant gains obtained in functional capacity reflect the great potential of supervised exercise interventions for improving the health status of incarcerated people.

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Fit for prison: Special population health and fitness programme evaluation

Abstract: The health and fitness programme positively impacts on the health of inmates with a chronic illness. A further study with a larger sample size would be productive.

Cited by 21 publications

References 16 publications

Inmates with Harmful Substance Use Increase Both Exercise and Nicotine Use Under Incarceration

Inmates with Harmful Substance Use Increase Both Exercise and Nicotine Use Under Incarceration

Feasibility and effects of an exercise-based intervention in prison inmates with psychiatric disorders: the PsychiActive project randomized controlled trial

Benefits of Selected Physical Exercise Programs in Detention: A Randomized Controlled Study

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