0024/2012 - História de Adversidade, Saúde e Psicopatologia em Reclusos: Comparação entre Homens e Mulheres. History of Adversity, Health and Psychopathology among Prisoners: Comparison between Men and Women.
• Ana Dutra - Dutra, A. - Universidade do Minho - <anitadutra@iol.pt>
Área Temática:
Ciências Sociais
Resumo:
Adversidade na infância, comportamentos de risco e psicopatologia são fenómenos muito prevalentes na população reclusa e com forte impacto na saúde. Conhecer as diferenças entre sexos, no que diz respeito a tais variáveis, é de elevada importância no sentido de adequar estratégias de intervenção em contexto prisional. Utilizando o Questionário Sócio-demográfico e História de Vida, o Questionário de Adversidade na Infância e o Brief Symptons Inventory, procurámos caracterizar a adversidade na infância, os comportamentos de risco e as dimensões psicopatológicas, e averiguar as diferenças entre 65 homens e 42 mulheres reclusos em estabelecimentos prisionais Portugueses. Homens e mulheres relatam um quadro complexo de adversidade na infância. Num total possível de dez categorias, verificámos uma média de adversidade total de 5.05 (DP=2.63) para as mulheres e de 2.63 (DP= 2.18) para os homens, sendo a prevalência significativamente mais elevada junto da população feminina (Z=-4.33;p=.000). Foi ainda encontrada uma elevada prevalência de comportamentos de risco e de sintomatologia psicopatológica em ambos os grupos, sendo esta última superior nas mulheres. Concluímos que as diferenças entre sexos devem ser estudadas para guiarem a adequação dos projetos de intervenção junto de populações específicas.
Palavras-chave:
Prisão
Saúde
Psicopatologia
Comportamentos de Risco
Adversidade
Abstract:
Adversity in childhood, health risk behaviors and psychopathology are a extremely prevalent phenomena in inmate population, with strong impact on health. Knowing the differences between sexes, in what concerns these variables, has a major importance in a way that it is possible to adequate the intervention strategies in a prison context. Administrating the Social-demographic and Life History Questionnaire and the Brief Symptoms Inventory, we intended adverse childhood experiences and relate them to health risk behaviors and with psychopathological symptoms, and study the differences between the 65 male and 42 female detain in Portugal. Men and women describe a complex frame of several adverse experiences during their young age. In a range of ten possible categories, we verified a medium value of 5.05 (DP=2.63) in total adversity for women and 2.63 (DP=2.18) for men, being the prevalence significantly higher within female population (Z=-4.33; p=.000). It was also found a high prevalence of health risk behaviors and psychopathological symptoms in both groups, being this last higher in female. We conclude that the differences between men and women should be profoundly studied in order to guided the highly necessity to adequate the intervention projects in specific populations.
Keywords:
Prison
Health
Psychopathology
Risk behaviors
Adversity
History of Adversity, Health and Psychopathology among Prisoners: Comparison between Men and Women.
Resumo (abstract):
Adversity in childhood, health risk behaviors and psychopathology are a extremely prevalent phenomena in inmate population, with strong impact on health. Knowing the differences between sexes, in what concerns these variables, has a major importance in a way that it is possible to adequate the intervention strategies in a prison context. Administrating the Social-demographic and Life History Questionnaire and the Brief Symptoms Inventory, we intended adverse childhood experiences and relate them to health risk behaviors and with psychopathological symptoms, and study the differences between the 65 male and 42 female detain in Portugal. Men and women describe a complex frame of several adverse experiences during their young age. In a range of ten possible categories, we verified a medium value of 5.05 (DP=2.63) in total adversity for women and 2.63 (DP=2.18) for men, being the prevalence significantly higher within female population (Z=-4.33; p=.000). It was also found a high prevalence of health risk behaviors and psychopathological symptoms in both groups, being this last higher in female. We conclude that the differences between men and women should be profoundly studied in order to guided the highly necessity to adequate the intervention projects in specific populations.
Palavras-chave (keywords):
Prison
Health
Psychopathology
Risk behaviors
Adversity
Alves, J., Maia, A., Dutra, A.. História de Adversidade, Saúde e Psicopatologia em Reclusos: Comparação entre Homens e Mulheres.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2012/Mar). [Citado em 28/09/2024].
Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/artigos/historia-de-adversidade-saude-e-psicopatologia-em-reclusos-comparacao-entre-homens-e-mulheres/9720
