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 3

Correlations between HRQoL and sociodemographic, health, and detention characteristics.

Variable name	EQ-5D tariff	SF-36 PCS	SF-36 MCS
	Correlation (𝑃 value)	Correlation (𝑃 value)	Correlation (𝑃 value)
Age	−0.0500 (0.6214)	−0.2997 (0.0024)	−0.0263 (0.7950)
Ethnicity	0.1229 (0.2233)	0.1270 (0.2079)	0.0903 (0.3716)
Marital status	−0.0493 (0.6259)	−0.1136 (0.2606)	0.0907 (0.3695)
Educational level	−0.0409 (0.6862)	0.0706 (0.4851)	0.0985 (0.3297)
Work in prison	0.2857 (0.0040)	0.1285 (0.2026)	0.1139 (0.2590)
Visits in prison	0.0594 (0.5569)	0.0857 (0.3964)	0.0177 (0.8613)
Immediate release	0.0395 (0.6967)	−0.0288 (0.7759)	−0.0645 (0.5236)
Sentence	0.1611 (0.1093)	0.0189 (0.8518)	0.0814 (0.4209)
Previous imprisonment	−0.2172 (0.0300)	−0.0544 (0.5909)	−0.1458 (0.1477)
ROTL	0.2205 (0.0275)	0.0751 (0.4577)	0.2014 (0.0445)
Psychiatric medication	−0.1300 (0.1972)	0.0231 (0.8197)	−0.1747 (0.0821)
Number of health conditions	−0.3146 (0.0014)	−0.4240 (0.0000)	−0.1105 (0.2736)
Smoking	−0.0867 (0.3911)	0.0002 (0.9981)	0.0801 (0.4284)
Use of narcotics	−0.2133 (0.0331)	−0.1480 (0.1418)	−0.1958 (0.0509)
Years of narcotics use	−0.3014 (0.0023)	−0.3422 (0.0005)	−0.2250 (0.0244)