Mental wellbeing among people in prison in Scotland: an analysis of repeat cross-sectional surveys.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mental wellbeing among people in prison is poorly studied, despite featuring in many health and justice policies. We aimed to describe for the first time mental wellbeing among an unselected national prison sample.

Methods

Since 2013, the Scottish Prisoner Survey-a biennial survey of people in custody in Scotland-has included the Warwick-Edinburgh mental wellbeing scale (WEMWBS), a 14-item scale with higher scores indicating greater wellbeing. We analysed data from sweeps in 2013 (n = 3158), 2015 (n = 2892) and 2017 (n = 2405) using Student's t-test, ANOVA and multiple linear regression. We also used WEMWBS data from the Scottish Health Survey stratified by age, gender and deprivation to compare with the population at liberty.

Results

Mean WEMWBS scores ove

SUBMITTER: Tweed EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8185554 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature