Cargando…

Motivation and training needs of prison healthcare professionals: findings from a qualitative study

Health care in prison is a challenging task. The conditions of imprisonment create distinct difficulties for those providing health care in this setting. These particular circumstances have led to a shortage of quality professionals, working for the health of imprisoned people. The aim of this study...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Jeker, Benjamin, Shaw, David, Lagnaux, Nicolas, Wangmo, Tenzin, Elger, Bernice S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10199499/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37210567
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01076-8
_version_ 1785044946983583744
author Jeker, Benjamin
Shaw, David
Lagnaux, Nicolas
Wangmo, Tenzin
Elger, Bernice S.
author_facet Jeker, Benjamin
Shaw, David
Lagnaux, Nicolas
Wangmo, Tenzin
Elger, Bernice S.
author_sort Jeker, Benjamin
collection PubMed
description Health care in prison is a challenging task. The conditions of imprisonment create distinct difficulties for those providing health care in this setting. These particular circumstances have led to a shortage of quality professionals, working for the health of imprisoned people. The aim of this study is to elaborate reasons for healthcare professionals to work in a prison environment. The main research question is: why do healthcare workers choose to work in prisons? Furthermore, our study identifies training needs in various fields. Interview data that comes from a national project carried out in Switzerland and three other relatively wealthy countries were analyzed using content analysis. One-on-one, semi structured interviews were designed and conducted with professionals working in prison context. A total of 105 interviews were carried out and for this work 83 of them were analyzed and coded into themes responding to the study aim. Most participants chose to work in prison either because of practical reasons, as many reported various forms of contact with the studied prison environment at a younger age, or because of intrinsic reasons, including among others, having the wish to change the system of healthcare in prisons. Even though the education of the participants varied greatly, a lack of specialist training was expressed by many health care professions as an important factor. This study points out the need for more specific training programs for healthcare workers in prison and provides suggestions to ameliorate the recruitment and education for future prison health care workers.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-10199499
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2023
publisher BioMed Central
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-101994992023-05-21 Motivation and training needs of prison healthcare professionals: findings from a qualitative study Jeker, Benjamin Shaw, David Lagnaux, Nicolas Wangmo, Tenzin Elger, Bernice S. BMC Psychol Research Health care in prison is a challenging task. The conditions of imprisonment create distinct difficulties for those providing health care in this setting. These particular circumstances have led to a shortage of quality professionals, working for the health of imprisoned people. The aim of this study is to elaborate reasons for healthcare professionals to work in a prison environment. The main research question is: why do healthcare workers choose to work in prisons? Furthermore, our study identifies training needs in various fields. Interview data that comes from a national project carried out in Switzerland and three other relatively wealthy countries were analyzed using content analysis. One-on-one, semi structured interviews were designed and conducted with professionals working in prison context. A total of 105 interviews were carried out and for this work 83 of them were analyzed and coded into themes responding to the study aim. Most participants chose to work in prison either because of practical reasons, as many reported various forms of contact with the studied prison environment at a younger age, or because of intrinsic reasons, including among others, having the wish to change the system of healthcare in prisons. Even though the education of the participants varied greatly, a lack of specialist training was expressed by many health care professions as an important factor. This study points out the need for more specific training programs for healthcare workers in prison and provides suggestions to ameliorate the recruitment and education for future prison health care workers. BioMed Central 2023-05-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10199499/ /pubmed/37210567 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01076-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
spellingShingle Research
Jeker, Benjamin
Shaw, David
Lagnaux, Nicolas
Wangmo, Tenzin
Elger, Bernice S.
Motivation and training needs of prison healthcare professionals: findings from a qualitative study
title Motivation and training needs of prison healthcare professionals: findings from a qualitative study
title_full Motivation and training needs of prison healthcare professionals: findings from a qualitative study
title_fullStr Motivation and training needs of prison healthcare professionals: findings from a qualitative study
title_full_unstemmed Motivation and training needs of prison healthcare professionals: findings from a qualitative study
title_short Motivation and training needs of prison healthcare professionals: findings from a qualitative study
title_sort motivation and training needs of prison healthcare professionals: findings from a qualitative study
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10199499/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37210567
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01076-8
work_keys_str_mv AT jekerbenjamin motivationandtrainingneedsofprisonhealthcareprofessionalsfindingsfromaqualitativestudy
AT shawdavid motivationandtrainingneedsofprisonhealthcareprofessionalsfindingsfromaqualitativestudy
AT lagnauxnicolas motivationandtrainingneedsofprisonhealthcareprofessionalsfindingsfromaqualitativestudy
AT wangmotenzin motivationandtrainingneedsofprisonhealthcareprofessionalsfindingsfromaqualitativestudy
AT elgerbernices motivationandtrainingneedsofprisonhealthcareprofessionalsfindingsfromaqualitativestudy