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 comp...

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Autores principales:	Félix Pageau, Corinne Devaud Cornaz, Isabelle Gothuey, Helene Seaward, Tenzin Wangmo, Bernice S. Elger
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Publicado:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:	lifestyle-related disease mental health care prison physical activity food Psychiatry RC435-571
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:9b5f29702fd641f3a9cd3337370b6e522021-11-19T04:54:13ZPrison Unhealthy Lifestyle and Poor Mental Health of Older Persons—A Qualitative Study1664-064010.3389/fpsyt.2021.690291https://doaj.org/article/9b5f29702fd641f3a9cd3337370b6e522021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.690291/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/1664-0640Background: 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.Félix PageauCorinne Devaud CornazIsabelle GothueyHelene SeawardTenzin WangmoBernice S. ElgerBernice S. ElgerFrontiers Media S.A.articlelifestyle-related diseasemental health careprisonphysical activityfoodPsychiatryRC435-571ENFrontiers in Psychiatry, Vol 12 (2021)
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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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author	Félix Pageau Corinne Devaud Cornaz Isabelle Gothuey Helene Seaward Tenzin Wangmo Bernice S. Elger Bernice S. Elger
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title	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_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_sort	prison unhealthy lifestyle and poor mental health of older persons—a qualitative study
publisher	Frontiers Media S.A.
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/9b5f29702fd641f3a9cd3337370b6e52
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Prison Unhealthy Lifestyle and Poor Mental Health of Older Persons—A Qualitative Study

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