Prevalence of mental disorder in female remand prisons

Parsons, Shaun; Walker, Louise; Грубин, Дон

doi:10.1080/09585180010027941

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“…Estimates suggest that as many as 37% of sentenced prisoners in UK prisons are suffering some form of mental illness [Birmingham et al, 2000;Gunn et al, 1991] and a recent study of female remand offenders found nearly 60% with a mental illness and 11% suffering psychosis [Parsons et al, 2001]. Whilst no remand prisoners were included in this study, these figures do suggest the potential presence of particularly high levels of mental health problems in female offenders.…”

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Role of experience in processing bias for aggressive words in forensic and non‐forensic populations

Smith

Waterman

2004

Aggressive Behavior

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Research is beginning to suggest that elevated levels of anger may influence responses in traditional cognitive tests of attention. To date research has focused upon nonforensic samples, and trait and state levels of anger. If individuals who are habitually aggressive demonstrate processing bias then it is likely that other constructs such as aggressiveness, hostility, and impulsivity will also be correlated with any bias performance. We attempted to extend the research by also considering the role of aggressive experience and impulsivity in such bias by using a group of offenders (n = 50) from prisons in the North of England and undergraduates (n = 30) from a university in the North of England. We hypothesised that violent offenders (as classified by their index offence) would demonstrate delayed responses when presented with aggressive stimuli as targets in a thematically primed version of the traditional dotprobe task, due to the activation of associated representational structures by a violently themed vignette when compared to a neutral vignette. We also hypothesised that the violent offenders would become distracted when searching for a neutral word target which was surrounded by aggressive words in a visual search task [Cohen et al., 1998] leading to delayed responses compared to a neutral word surrounded by negatively or positively themed emotion words. Finally, we hypothesised that undergraduates with elevated levels of aggressiveness would also show similar (albeit attenuated) biases for these materials. Violent offenders demonstrated significant response biases to aggression words in both tests. This effect was also found in the aggressive undergraduates (as classified by their scores on the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire). These data confirm the saliency of aggression words to aggressive individuals across populations. The objective nature of these tests, together with their resilience to deception, may offer a useful tool in the assessment and treatment of aggressive individuals.

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Role of experience in processing bias for aggressive words in forensic and non‐forensic populations

Smith

Waterman

2004

Aggressive Behavior

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“…There were a number of other reasons for exclusion: (1) failure to include the whole prison population or a random sample of this population [34–36]; (2) reporting of retrospective substance use while in prison in post‐release prisoners [37,38]; (3) reporting estimates from only prisoners selected for assessment or treatment of substance dependence [39,40]; (4) reporting of combined results for men and women [10]; (5) reporting of combined estimates for alcohol and drug misuse [41,42]; (6) greater than 50% non‐participation [43]; (7) measuring solely injectable substance use [36,39,44]; and (8) lack of standardized criteria or unclear definitions regarding either substance abuse or dependence [35,45–65]. A group of studies examining the prevalence of drug dependence as part of the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring programme in the United States was excluded for this latter reason [13,14]; (9) one 1985 study that used diagnostic criteria according to the International Classification of Diseases, version 8 [66].…”

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Substance abuse and dependence in prisoners: a systematic review

2006

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The prevalence of substance abuse and dependence, although highly variable, is typically many orders of magnitude higher in prisoners than the general population, particularly for women with drug problems. This highlights the need for screening for substance abuse and dependence at reception into prison, effective treatment while in custody, and follow-up on release. Specialist addiction services for prisoners have the potential to make a considerable impact.

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“…Fazel and Grann 23 found that 20% of homicide offenders in Sweden had a psychotic illness with 8.9% schizophrenia, 6.5% other psychosis, 1.4% drug-induced psychosis and 1% organic psychosis. Parson et al 24 found prevalence of 9.9% for schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. This is a much higher percentage than that reported in the Fazel and Danesh review 2 as well as in our study.…”

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Prevalence of psychiatric morbidity among prisoners attending OPD of Central Jail Hospital, Kathmandu

Bhattarai

Sharma²,

Chapagai

et al. 2018

J Psychiatr Assoc Nepal

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Introduction: Prisoners are one of the most vulnerable groups for having high prevalence of mental illness. There is a dearth of major studies conducted amongst prisoners in Nepal. The basic objective of this study is to study prevalence and nature of psychiatric morbidity in prisoners attending general OPD of Central jail Hospital, Kathmandu. Material and Method: This was a descriptive, cross-sectional study carried out in prisoners attending OPD of central jail for a period of six months. Initial screening was done with self- reporting questionnaire (SRQ) and those having distress on SRQ were interviewed and diagnosis was made based on ICD-10 DCR and data analysis was done using SPSS version 16. Results: A total of 121 prisoners out of 300 prisoners attending OPD of central jail hospital during a period of six months had been diagnosed to suffer from psychiatric morbidity. Majority of cases were within age group 26-30 years (20.7%) with male preponderance (76.9%), married (69.4%), educated up to higher secondary level (38%), doing occupation as labor work (24%), Hindus (62.8%) with janajatis (32.2%), having low socioeconomic status (51.2%), belonging to joint family (50.4%) and were from rural areas (45.4%). Murder was the most common offence committed (33.9%) followed by drug trafficking (28.1%). Most common primary diagnosis belong to Neurotic, stress related and somatoform disorder (57%) followed by mood disorder (32.2%). Most common psychiatric morbidity among prisoners was generalized anxiety disorder (36.4%) followed by Moderate depressive episode (23.1%) and somatoform disorder (9.1%). The overall prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in prisoners attending OPD of central jail hospital was found to be 40.33%. Conclusion: A substantial burden of psychiatric morbidity exists in prison population of Nepal. Prompt recognition and treatment of mental illness in prison lead to decrease in functional disability and better quality of life.

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Prevalence of mental disorder in female remand prisons

Cited by 26 publications

References 9 publications

Role of experience in processing bias for aggressive words in forensic and non‐forensic populations

Role of experience in processing bias for aggressive words in forensic and non‐forensic populations

Substance abuse and dependence in prisoners: a systematic review

Prevalence of psychiatric morbidity among prisoners attending OPD of Central Jail Hospital, Kathmandu

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