Table 2 Distribution of psychosocial factors of prisoners at Addis Ababa correction center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 2015 (n = 447)
Variables | Categories | Frequency | Percent |
|---|---|---|---|
Social support | Poor | 218 | 48.8 |
Moderate | 162 | 36.2 | |
Strong | 67 | 15.0 | |
Having a chronic physical disease | Yes | 65 | 14.5 |
No | 382 | 85.5 | |
Seriously illness, injury or assault of a prisoner in last 6 months | Yes | 93 | 21.0 |
No | 353 | 79.0 | |
Death of relative in the last 6 months | Yes | 37 | 8.3 |
No | 410 | 91.7 | |
Break up of friendship or relationship in the last 6 months | Yes | 77 | 17.2 |
No | 370 | 82.8 | |
The financial crisis in the last 6 months | Yes | 268 | 60.0 |
No | 179 | 40.0 | |
Ever diagnosis psychiatric illness | Yes | 29 | 6.5 |
No | 418 | 93.5 | |
A family history of mental illness | Yes | 38 | 8.5 |
No | 409 | 91.5 | |
Problem with police/court in the last 6 months | Yes | 73 | 16.3 |
No | 374 | 83.7 | |
No job before arrested | Yes | 204 | 45.6 |
No | 243 | 54.4 | |
Suffered from violence in the last 6 months | Yes | 63 | 14.1 |
No | 384 | 85.9 | |
Ever convicted | Yes | 29 | 6.5 |
No | 418 | 93.5 | |
How often do you convict | Once | 23 | 5.1 |
Twice | 2 | 0.4 | |
≥ 3 times | 3 | 0.7 |