Poor health and social outcomes for ex-prisoners with a history of mental disorder: A longitudinal study
© 2014 Public Health Association of Australia. Objective: To examine the association between self-reported lifetime diagnosis of mental disorder and health-related outcomes in prisoners during the first six months after release.Methods: We interviewed 1,324 adult prisoners in Queensland, Australia,...
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| author | Cutcher, Z. Degenhardt, L. Alati, Rosa Kinner, S. |
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| description | © 2014 Public Health Association of Australia. Objective: To examine the association between self-reported lifetime diagnosis of mental disorder and health-related outcomes in prisoners during the first six months after release.Methods: We interviewed 1,324 adult prisoners in Queensland, Australia, within six weeks of expected release and one, three and six months post-release. Outcomes of interest included health service access, housing, employment, substance use and criminal activity. We used multivariate logistic regression to investigate the association between self-reported, lifetime diagnosis of mental disorder and these health-related outcomes post-release, adjusting for pre-existing disadvantage.Results: 43.4% of participants reported a lifetime diagnosis of mental disorder. This group had increased crude odds of poor outcomes across all evaluated domains. After adjusting for pre-existing disadvantage, significantly increased odds of poor outcomes persisted in the substance use, mental health, crime and health service access domains.Conclusions: People with a history of mental disorder experience particularly poor outcomes following release from prison that are not fully explained by pre-existing disadvantage. Implications: Evidence-based transitional programs for prisoners with a history of mental disorder should be provided at a level commensurate with need. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-709132018-12-13T09:33:09Z Poor health and social outcomes for ex-prisoners with a history of mental disorder: A longitudinal study Cutcher, Z. Degenhardt, L. Alati, Rosa Kinner, S. © 2014 Public Health Association of Australia. Objective: To examine the association between self-reported lifetime diagnosis of mental disorder and health-related outcomes in prisoners during the first six months after release.Methods: We interviewed 1,324 adult prisoners in Queensland, Australia, within six weeks of expected release and one, three and six months post-release. Outcomes of interest included health service access, housing, employment, substance use and criminal activity. We used multivariate logistic regression to investigate the association between self-reported, lifetime diagnosis of mental disorder and these health-related outcomes post-release, adjusting for pre-existing disadvantage.Results: 43.4% of participants reported a lifetime diagnosis of mental disorder. This group had increased crude odds of poor outcomes across all evaluated domains. After adjusting for pre-existing disadvantage, significantly increased odds of poor outcomes persisted in the substance use, mental health, crime and health service access domains.Conclusions: People with a history of mental disorder experience particularly poor outcomes following release from prison that are not fully explained by pre-existing disadvantage. Implications: Evidence-based transitional programs for prisoners with a history of mental disorder should be provided at a level commensurate with need. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70913 10.1111/1753-6405.12207 Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia restricted |
| spellingShingle | Cutcher, Z. Degenhardt, L. Alati, Rosa Kinner, S. Poor health and social outcomes for ex-prisoners with a history of mental disorder: A longitudinal study |
| title | Poor health and social outcomes for ex-prisoners with a history of mental disorder: A longitudinal study |
| title_full | Poor health and social outcomes for ex-prisoners with a history of mental disorder: A longitudinal study |
| title_fullStr | Poor health and social outcomes for ex-prisoners with a history of mental disorder: A longitudinal study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Poor health and social outcomes for ex-prisoners with a history of mental disorder: A longitudinal study |
| title_short | Poor health and social outcomes for ex-prisoners with a history of mental disorder: A longitudinal study |
| title_sort | poor health and social outcomes for ex-prisoners with a history of mental disorder: a longitudinal study |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70913 |