An Assessment of Health Related Quality of Life in a Male Prison Population in Greece Associations with Health Related Characteristics and Characteristics of Detention

Table 1

Sociodemographic, health related, and imprisonment characteristics of the sample population.

Sociodemographic characteristics		Health related characteristics		Imprisonment-related characteristics
Characteristic	Percentage	Characteristic	Percentage	Characteristic	Percentage
Gender		Obesity		Sentence
Men	100%	Normal weight (BMI < 26)	53%	<5 years	6%
Women	0%	Overweight (BMI ≥ 26, BMI ≤ 29)	34%	5–10 years	36%
Ethnicity		Obese (BMI > 29)	13%	>10 years	27%
Greek	63%	Health conditions		Lifetime	4%
Other	37%	No health condition	51%	Awaiting sentence	27%
Age group		One health condition	26%	Previous imprisonment
21–30 years	40%	Two health conditions	19%	Yes	49%
31–40 years	37%	>two health conditions	4%	No	51%
41–50 years	15%	Mental disorders	25%	Visits in prison
>51 years	8%	Hepatitis C	25%	Yes	42%
Marital status		Hepatitis B	10%	No	58%
Unmarried	53%	Receiving medications	27%	Work in prison
Married	35%	For mental problems	60%	Yes	26%
Divorced	5%	For other than mental problems	30%	No	74%
Separated	7%	For mental and nonmental problems	11%	Release on temporary license (ROTL)
Education				Yes	7%
Not having attended school	19%			No	93%
Primary school	32%			Smoking status
Middle high school	25%			Yes	88%
Academically oriented, high school	19%			No	12%
University	5%			Use of narcotics
Occupation prior to imprisonment				Yes	47%
Manual	77%			No	53%
Nonmanual	16%			Cannabis	83%
Unemployed	7%			Opiates-opioids	70%
				Stimulants of the central nervous system	60%
				Sedatives of the central nervous system	45%
				Hallucinogenics	17%