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The impact of contact with suicide-related behavior in prison on young offenders

Hales, Heidi, Edmondson, Amanda, Davison, Sophie, Maughan, Barbara and Taylor, Pamela Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3998-6095 2015. The impact of contact with suicide-related behavior in prison on young offenders. Crisis 36 (1) , pp. 21-30. 10.1027/0227-5910/a000292

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Abstract

Background: Prison suicide rates are high, and suicide-related behaviors (SRBs) higher, but effects of contact with such behaviors in prison have not previously been examined. Aims: To compare the mental state of young men witnessing a peer’s suicide-related behavior in prison with that of men without such experience, and to test for factors associated with morbidity. Method: Forty-six male prisoners (age 16–21 years) reporting contact with another’s suicide-related behavior in prison were interviewed 6 months after the incident, with validated questionnaires, as were 44 without such contact at least 6 months into their imprisonment. Results: Significantly higher levels of psychiatric morbidity and own suicide-related behaviors were found in the witness group, even after controlling for their higher levels of family mental illness and pre-exposure experience of in-prison bullying. Some personal factors were associated with higher morbidity; incident and institutional factors were not. Conclusions: Findings of heightened vulnerabilities among young men exposed to suicide-related behaviors in prison suggest a need for longitudinal study to clarify temporal relationships and inform strategies to prevent or limit development of morbidity and further harm.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher: Hogrefe Verlag
ISSN: 0227-5910
Last Modified: 28 Oct 2022 09:31
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/74790

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