[Effect of expanding training on prisoners' mental health].

OBJECTIVE

To study the effect of expanding training on the mental health of the prisoners and to provide the references to the innovation of the mental health education for the prisoners.

METHODS

Questionnaire, observation, interview and mathematical statistic analysis were used. 100 male and 100 female prisoners from two prisons in East China were investigated by Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90).

RESULTS

Eight of the ten factors in SCL-90 showed the level of statistically significance, which includes obsessive-compulsive symptoms, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, compulsion, hostility, psychoticism and others. Expanding training could be helpful to improve the mental health of the prisoners.

CONCLUSION

Expanding training can be used in mental health education of the prisoners.