Area of Social Work and Social Services, Department of Psychology, University of Jaén. Jaen.
Department of Social Work and Social Services. University of Murcia. Murcia.
Rev Esp Sanid Penit. 2020 Jan-Apr;22(1):32-38. doi: 10.18176/resp.0005. Epub 2020 Apr 27.
Literature on this issue has shown a high prevalence of alcohol and other drug use in the prison population. Although many risk factors have been linked to this behavior in prison, it is not common to find research that analyses the influence of family/social contact in prison.
A cross-sectional study was carried out on 2,709 inmates (2,484 men and 225 women) in 9 prisons in Spain, data was collected through self-report questionnaires, including information at socio-demographic level, family-social contact and use of alcohol and other drugs in the last month in prison.
Inmates with no family contact in prison show a higher prevalence of use for all the substances analyzed, binary logistic regression analysis shows statistically significant associations with the use of cannabis (OR: 1.86, p ≤0.001) or cocaine (OR: 3.40, p ≤0.001) in prison.
More knowledge about this public health problem amongst social workers in the prison environment could be an effective diagnostic and preventive tool for reducing the use of alcohol and other drugs during imprisonment.
关于这个问题的文献表明,监狱人口中酒精和其他药物的使用非常普遍。尽管许多风险因素与监狱中的这种行为有关,但很少有研究分析监狱中家庭/社会接触对其的影响。
对西班牙 9 所监狱的 2709 名囚犯(2484 名男性和 225 名女性)进行了横断面研究,通过自我报告问卷收集数据,包括社会人口统计学水平、家庭-社会接触以及监狱内最近一个月内使用酒精和其他药物的信息。
在监狱中没有家庭联系的囚犯表现出更高的所有分析物质的使用流行率,二元逻辑回归分析显示与在监狱中使用大麻(OR:1.86,p ≤0.001)或可卡因(OR:3.40,p ≤0.001)有统计学显著关联。
监狱环境中的社会工作者对这一公共卫生问题有更多的了解,可能是减少监禁期间使用酒精和其他药物的有效诊断和预防工具。