Exposure to Family Member Incarceration and Adult Well-being in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

More than half of the adult population in the United States has ever had a family member incarcerated, an experience more common among Black individuals. The impacts of family incarceration on well-being are not fully understood.

Objective

To assess the associations of incarceration of a family member with perceived well-being and differences in projected life expectancy.

Design, setting, and participants

This nationally representative cross-sectional study used data from the 2018 Family History of Incarceration Survey to examine how experiences of family member incarceration were associated with a holistic measure of well-being, including physical, mental, social, financial, and spiritual domains. Well-being was used to estimate change in life expectancy a

SUBMITTER: Sundaresh R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8164096 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature