Meeting the mental health needs of women in Irish prisons: A qualitative multi-stakeholder perspective to inform healthcare practice.

ABSTRACT: The rate of female incarceration to prison has grown by approximately 60% since the year 2000. Mental ill-health is over-represented in the female carceral population and the experiences of women in the context of prison mental health services are largely invisible in empirical literature. The aim of this study was to highlight the under-represented narratives of women in prison and prison personnel to inform nursing practice and prison mental health service planning and delivery. A qualitative approach was used underpinned by institutional ethnography. Data were collected across two (n = 2) female prisons in the Republic of Ireland. Purposive and snow-ball sampling was used to recruit both women in prison and prison personnel to the study. One-to-one semi-structured interviews were conduc

SUBMITTER: Bright AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12440222 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature