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Suicide risk among prisoners in French Guiana: prevalence and predictive factors

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Title
Suicide risk among prisoners in French Guiana: prevalence and predictive factors
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BMC Psychiatry, May 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12888-017-1320-4
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Gülen Ayhan, Romain Arnal, Célia Basurko, Vincent About, Agathe Pastre, Eric Pinganaud, Dominique Sins, Louis Jehel, Bruno Falissard, Mathieu Nacher

Abstract

Suicide rates in prison are high and their risk factors are incompletely understood. The objective of the present study is to measure the risk of suicide and its predictors in the only prison of multicultural French Guiana. All new prisoners arriving between September 2013 and December 2014 were included. The Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) was used and socio-demographic data was collected. In order to identify the predictors of suicide risk multivariate logistic regression was used. Of the 707 prisoners included 13.2% had a suicidal risk, 14.0% of whom had a high risk, 15.1% a moderate risk and 41.9% a low risk. Predictive factors were depression (OR 7.44, 95% CI: 3.50-15.87), dysthymia (OR 4.22, 95% CI: 1.34-13.36), panic disorder (OR 3.47, 95% CI: 1.33-8.99), general anxiety disorder (GAD) (OR 2.19, 95% CI: 1.13-4.22), men having been abused during childhood (OR 21.01, 95%, CI: 3.26-135.48), having been sentenced for sexual assault (OR 7.12, 95% CI: 1.98-25.99) and smoking (OR 2.93, 95%, CI 1.30-6.63). The suicide risk was lower than in mainland France, possibly reflecting the differences in the social stigma attached to incarceration because of migrant populations and the importance and trivialization of drug trafficking among detainees. However, there were no differences between nationalities. The results reemphasize the importance of promptly identifying and treating psychiatric disorders, which were the main suicide risk factors.

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Unknown 143 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 20 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 10%
Researcher 14 10%
Student > Bachelor 14 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 8%
Other 14 10%
Unknown 54 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 35 24%
Medicine and Dentistry 18 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 7%
Social Sciences 9 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 1%
Other 8 6%
Unknown 61 43%
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