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Prison Unhealthy Lifestyle and Poor Mental Health of Older Persons—A Qualitative Study
Background: Mental healthcare and lifestyle habits in prison, especially for older individuals, has been shown to be suboptimal. Most psychiatric conditions left untreated worsen food choices, physical inactivity, and substance abuse. In turn, bad habits lead to poorer mental health. Methods: To com...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8639530/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34867505 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.690291 |
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author | Pageau, Félix Cornaz, Corinne Devaud Gothuey, Isabelle Seaward, Helene Wangmo, Tenzin Elger, Bernice S. |
author_facet | Pageau, Félix Cornaz, Corinne Devaud Gothuey, Isabelle Seaward, Helene Wangmo, Tenzin Elger, Bernice S. |
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description | Background: Mental healthcare and lifestyle habits in prison, especially for older individuals, has been shown to be suboptimal. Most psychiatric conditions left untreated worsen food choices, physical inactivity, and substance abuse. In turn, bad habits lead to poorer mental health. Methods: To comprehensively illustrate this downward spiraling, we completed a thorough analysis of data obtained through semi-structured qualitative interviews. There were 50 interviews of aging incarcerated people included in this article. They were analyzed following a classical six-stepped thematic analysis. Results: According to our participants, sports are not well-adapted to aging individuals, nor to people with medical conditions. Prison is even more unadapted for those who both are aging and have medical conditions. Also, food served is less than optimal. According to our interviews, the older imprisoned individual often does not have access to food adapted to his or her medical conditions. Sport is maladapted for older incarcerated individuals and mostly tailored for younger ones. Finally, boredom and lack of responsibility hinder change toward a better lifestyle for older adults in prison. Conclusion: Our paper shows why prison environmental modifications are needed to help older adults with their lifestyle habits. It also exposes an original way to see the relationship between mental health and lifestyle habits. |
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spelling | pubmed-86395302021-12-04 Prison Unhealthy Lifestyle and Poor Mental Health of Older Persons—A Qualitative Study Pageau, Félix Cornaz, Corinne Devaud Gothuey, Isabelle Seaward, Helene Wangmo, Tenzin Elger, Bernice S. Front Psychiatry Psychiatry Background: Mental healthcare and lifestyle habits in prison, especially for older individuals, has been shown to be suboptimal. Most psychiatric conditions left untreated worsen food choices, physical inactivity, and substance abuse. In turn, bad habits lead to poorer mental health. Methods: To comprehensively illustrate this downward spiraling, we completed a thorough analysis of data obtained through semi-structured qualitative interviews. There were 50 interviews of aging incarcerated people included in this article. They were analyzed following a classical six-stepped thematic analysis. Results: According to our participants, sports are not well-adapted to aging individuals, nor to people with medical conditions. Prison is even more unadapted for those who both are aging and have medical conditions. Also, food served is less than optimal. According to our interviews, the older imprisoned individual often does not have access to food adapted to his or her medical conditions. Sport is maladapted for older incarcerated individuals and mostly tailored for younger ones. Finally, boredom and lack of responsibility hinder change toward a better lifestyle for older adults in prison. Conclusion: Our paper shows why prison environmental modifications are needed to help older adults with their lifestyle habits. It also exposes an original way to see the relationship between mental health and lifestyle habits. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8639530/ /pubmed/34867505 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.690291 Text en Copyright © 2021 Pageau, Cornaz, Gothuey, Seaward, Wangmo and Elger. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychiatry Pageau, Félix Cornaz, Corinne Devaud Gothuey, Isabelle Seaward, Helene Wangmo, Tenzin Elger, Bernice S. Prison Unhealthy Lifestyle and Poor Mental Health of Older Persons—A Qualitative Study |
title | Prison Unhealthy Lifestyle and Poor Mental Health of Older Persons—A Qualitative Study |
title_full | Prison Unhealthy Lifestyle and Poor Mental Health of Older Persons—A Qualitative Study |
title_fullStr | Prison Unhealthy Lifestyle and Poor Mental Health of Older Persons—A Qualitative Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Prison Unhealthy Lifestyle and Poor Mental Health of Older Persons—A Qualitative Study |
title_short | Prison Unhealthy Lifestyle and Poor Mental Health of Older Persons—A Qualitative Study |
title_sort | prison unhealthy lifestyle and poor mental health of older persons—a qualitative study |
topic | Psychiatry |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8639530/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34867505 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.690291 |
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