The mental health of ex-prisoners: analysis of the 2014 English National Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Prisoners experience extremely high rates of psychiatric disturbance. However, ex-prisoners have never previously been identified in representative population surveys to establish how far this excess persists after release. Our purpose was to provide the first community-based estimate of ex-prisoners' mental health in England using the data from the 2014 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS).

Methods

APMS 2014 provides cross-sectional data from a random sample (N = 7546) of England's household population aged 16 or above. Standardised instruments categorised psychiatric disorders and social circumstances. Participants who had been in prison were compared with the rest of the sample.

Results

One participant in seventy had been in prison (1.4%; 95% CI 1.1-1.

SUBMITTER: Bebbington PE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8519824 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature