Health Services Use Among Jailed Women with Alcohol Use Disorders

Timko, Christine; Johnson, Jennifer E.; Kurth, Megan E.; Schonbrun, Yael Chatav; Anderson, Bradley J.; Stein, Michael D.

doi:10.1007/s11414-018-9634-7

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“…In the criminal justice system, vulnerable populations, such as women (Binswanger et al, 2010; Timko et al, 2019), older adults (Skarupski, Gross, Schrack, Deal, & Eber, 2018), and people with HIV or hepatitis C (Spaulding, Anderson, Khan, Taborda-Vidarte, & Phillips, 2017), are at risk of poor health outcomes. Although these groups have been the focus of numerous research studies, another vulnerable group – military veterans in the criminal justice system – only recently gained attention.…”

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A scoping review of military veterans involved in the criminal justice system and their health and healthcare

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Background In the criminal justice system, special populations, such as older adults or patients with infectious diseases, have been identified as particularly vulnerable to poor health outcomes. Military veterans involved in the criminal justice system are also a vulnerable population warranting attention because of their unique healthcare needs. This review aims to provide an overview of existing literature on justice-involved veterans’ health and healthcare to identify research gaps and inform policy and practice. Methods A systematic search was conducted to identify research articles related to justice-involved veterans’ health and healthcare that were published prior to December 2017. Study characteristics including healthcare category, study design, sample size, and funding source were extracted and summarized with the aim of providing an overview of extant literature. Results The search strategy initially identified 1830 unique abstracts with 1387 abstracts then excluded. Full-text review of 443 articles was conducted with 252 excluded. There were 191 articles included, most related to veterans’ mental health (130/191, 68%) or homelessness (24/191, 13%). Most studies used an observational design (173/191, 91%). Conclusions Knowledge gaps identified from the review provide guidance on future areas of research. Studies on different sociodemographic groups, medical conditions, and the management of multiple conditions and psychosocial challenges are needed. Developing and testing interventions, especially randomized trials, to address justice-involved veterans care needs will help to improve their health and healthcare. Finally, an integrated conceptual framework that draws from diverse disciplines, such as criminology, health services, psychology, and implementation science is needed to inform research, policy and practice focused on justice-involved veterans. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s40352-019-0086-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Section: Special Populations In the Criminal Justice Systemmentioning

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“…Yet a third challenge would be this population possibly having cooccurring opioid or cocaine use disorders for which more intensive treatments such as medications or behavioral interventions would be needed. Indeed, medications are an effective yet underused treatment for AUD (Witkiewitz et al, 2019), and the delivery of SNA interventions may present an opportunity to begin to link women to this and other treatment options, if common barriers to healthcare access and utilization among formerly incarcerated women (Timko et al, 2019) do not interfere.…”

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Perceived Substance Use Norms Among Jailed Women with Alcohol Use Disorders

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Alcoholism Clin & Exp Res

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Background Social norms regarding substance use predict substance use behaviors. In a sample of jailed women with alcohol use disorders (AUDs), we compared (i) jailed women’s perceptions of the US women population’s rates of substance use, with US women’s actual rates of substance use; (ii) jailed women’s perceived rates of substance use by US women, with their perceptions of use by their own friends; and (iii) US women’s actual rates of substance use, with observed sample substance use rates. Methods Participants were 205 jailed women who met criteria for an AUD. We used the 1‐sample or dependent‐samples t‐test to make the comparisons. Results Participants overestimated US women’s rates of substance use and incarceration rates. They perceived their friends’ substance use as less common than US women’s. The jailed women reported higher rates of their own substance use than actual rates by US women. In addition, jailed women self‐reported less cannabis use, but more alcohol and cocaine use and cigarette smoking, than they perceived their friends to have used. The more women perceived their friends as drinking, the less they had a goal to drink less or abstain from drinking postincarceration; in contrast, perceptions of US women’s drinking were not related to personal goals for drinking. Conclusions Interventions that correct misperceptions about substance use norms may have utility for jailed women with AUDs.

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“…Women in jail have disproportionately high behavioral health needs, including serious mental illness (SMI) and substance use disorders (SUD), compared to men in jail and to women in the general population (e.g., see Swavola et al, 2016; Timko et al, 2019). Using a broad measure of Serious Psychological Distress (SPD) which captures feelings such as nervousness, hopelessness, or worthlessness, data from the nationally representative National Inmate Survey reveal that a larger percentage of women in jail (32%) than men in jail (26%) met the threshold for past-month SPD (Bronson & Berzofsky, 2017).…”

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“…One 2014 study of nearly 500 women in jails throughout the United States indicate that 53% met 12-month SUD criteria and 84% met lifetime SUD criteria (Lynch et al, 2014). And a recent study on alcohol use disorder among women in jail found high levels of pre-incarceration health service utilization: in the 3 months preceding their jail stay, nearly two-thirds of the 168 women sampled reported an emergency medical visit, roughly one-fifth experienced hospitalization for either medical and/or psychiatric reasons, and about one-fifth visited a counselor for substance abuse treatment (Timko et al, 2019).…”

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“…To that end, “structural-level interventions to connect women more efficiently and equitably to health services to increase the consistency and dependability of access and care” may be especially necessary to improve women in jail’s access to behavioral health services (Timko et al, 2019, p. 125), a suggestion we examine in this analysis.…”

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Gender, Geography, and Justice: Behavioral Health Needs and Mental Health Service Use Among Women in Rural Jails

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Burgess‐Proctor

Harrison

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Criminal Justice and Behavior

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This multi-jail study examines the behavioral health needs and service use in a sample of 3,787 individuals in jail, to compare women in rural jails to their gender and geography counterparts (that is rural men, urban women, and urban men). Compared to urban women (17.9%, n = 677), rural men (18.2%, n = 690), and urban men (56.1%; n = 2,132), rural women (7.6%, n = 288) had significantly higher odds of serious mental illness and co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Rural woman were nearly 30 times more likely to receive jail-based mental health services; however, a discrepancy between screened mental health need (43.1%, n = 124) and jail-identified mental health need (8.4%, n = 24) shows rural women are severely under-identified compared to their gender/geography counterparts. These findings have implications for the changing nature of jail populations and suggests the need to improve behavioral health identification methods.

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Health Services Use Among Jailed Women with Alcohol Use Disorders

Cited by 8 publications

References 51 publications

A scoping review of military veterans involved in the criminal justice system and their health and healthcare

A scoping review of military veterans involved in the criminal justice system and their health and healthcare

Perceived Substance Use Norms Among Jailed Women with Alcohol Use Disorders

Gender, Geography, and Justice: Behavioral Health Needs and Mental Health Service Use Among Women in Rural Jails

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