Psychiatric hospitalisations for people who are incarcerated, 2009-2019: An 11-year retrospective longitudinal study in France.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the poor mental health status of people who are incarcerated, few studies have examined the number of psychiatric hospitalisations in this population. Since 2010, France has progressively opened nine full-time inpatient psychiatric wards exclusively for people who are incarcerated, called "specially adapted hospital units" (unités hospitalières spécialement aménagées, UHSAs, 440 beds). This study aimed to present the annual rates of psychiatric hospitalisations and primary psychiatric diagnoses among people who are incarcerated in France from 2009 to 2019.

Methods

We used discharge reports from the French national hospital database to describe longitudinal retrospective administrative data of psychiatric hospitalisations for people in jail and priso

SUBMITTER: Fovet T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9011007 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature