Health care needs and service use among male prison inmates in the United States: A multi-level behavioral model of prison health service utilization

Table 1 Characteristics of study measures (n = 8816)

	Mean	Std. Dev.	Min	Max
Predisposing factors
Age	35.89	10.79	18	84
Black	0.41	0.49	0	1
Hispanic	0.17	0.38	0	1
Other race	0.06	0.23	0	1
Foreign born	0.08	0.26	0	1
Never married	0.56	0.50	0	1
High school education	0.68	0.47	0	1
Prior employment	0.72	0.45	0	1
Veteran	0.12	0.32	0	1
Vulnerability factors
Past incarceration episodes	1.09	1.21	0	3
Mood/anxiety disorder	0.23	0.42	0	1
Schizophrenia	0.04	0.39	0	1
Alcohol/drug dependence	0.42	0.49	0	1
Prison-level predisposing factors
Proportion age 25 or younger	0.21	0.13	0	0.89
Proportion black	0.41	0.20	0	0.89
Proportion hispanic	0.18	0.16	0	0.67
Proportion violent offenders	0.51	0.20	0	0.90
Enabling factors
Visits from family/friends
1 in past month	0.13	0.34	0	1
2+ in past month	0.17	0.37	0	1
Phone Calls from family/friends
1 in past week	0.17	0.37	0	1
2+ in past week	0.29	0.45	0	1
Drug offender	0.17	0.37	0	1
Violent offender	0.53	0.50	0	1
Hours in work assignment	13.87	15.7	0	40
Years incarcerated	5.45	5.65	0	44

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