Combalbert Nicolas, Ferrand Claude, Pennequin Valérie, Keita Moussa, Geffray Brigitte
Département de psychologie. EA 2114, Laboratoire PAV, Université de Tours, Tours, France.
Geriatr Psychol Neuropsychiatr Vieil. 2017 Mar 1;15(1):99-108. doi: 10.1684/pnv.2017.0654.
People serving prison sentences have major needs in terms of their physical and mental health. However, little is known about the prevalence of mental disorders affecting older prisoners and about how they evaluate their state of health and their quality of life. The aim of our study is to identify whether there is a link between mental disorders and the level of perceived health and quality of life of older prisoners. For the group 1, we recruited 138 male prisoners aged 50 and over in 7 French prisons. The control group was composed of 138 community-dwelling men aged 50 and over. The research protocol comprised four scales (The mini international neuropsychiatric interview, The French version of the Nottingham health profile, The scale of the subjective state of mental health, The WHOQOL-BREF). The results reveal a very high prevalence of mental disorders among older prisoners, notably depression and anxiety. The evaluation of perceived health and quality of life is also significantly lower in the group of older prisoners. We discuss the link between having one or more mental disorders and a negative evaluation of perceived health and quality of life.
服刑人员在身心健康方面有重大需求。然而，对于影响老年囚犯的精神障碍患病率以及他们如何评估自己的健康状况和生活质量，我们知之甚少。我们研究的目的是确定精神障碍与老年囚犯的健康感知水平和生活质量之间是否存在联系。对于第一组，我们在法国的7所监狱招募了138名年龄在50岁及以上的男性囚犯。对照组由138名年龄在50岁及以上的社区男性组成。研究方案包括四个量表（迷你国际神经精神病学访谈、法国版诺丁汉健康量表、心理健康主观状态量表、世界卫生组织生活质量简表）。结果显示，老年囚犯中精神障碍的患病率非常高，尤其是抑郁症和焦虑症。老年囚犯组对健康和生活质量的感知评估也明显更低。我们讨论了患有一种或多种精神障碍与对健康和生活质量的负面评估之间的联系。
