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Table 1 Demographic characteristics, mental health, crime and substance use by gender (n = 1499)

From: Factors associated with drug use in prison – results from the Norwegian offender mental health and addiction (NorMA) study

 

Mena (n = 1396)

Womena (n = 96)

Total (n = 1499)

Missing values, n (%)

Sociodemographic factors

 Ageb, mean (SD)

35 (11.3)

35 (10.5)

35 (11.3)

131 (8.7)

 History of family problems, n (%)

407 (29.2)

47 (49.0)

457 (30.5)

61 (4.1)

 Non-Nordic borne, n (%)

385 (27.6)

15 (15.6)

404 (27.0)

49 (3.3)

 Secondary school or more, n (%)

866 (62.0)

48 (50.0)

919 (61.3)

23 (1.5)

 Work or study before incarceration, n (%)

688 (49.3)

36 (37.5)

721 (48.1)

50 (3.3)

Current mental health

 HSCL10 scorebmean (SD)

1.9 (0.8)

2.1 (0.8)

1.9 (0.8)

320 (21.3)

Crime

 Crime related to current incarceration

   

88 (5.9)

  Acquisitive crime, n (%)

420 (30.1)

26 (27.1)

450 (30.0)

  Drug crime, n (%)

573 (41.0)

33 (34.4)

609 (40.6)

  Violence, n (%)

574 (41.1)

31 (32.3)

606 (40.4)

  Driving under the influence, n (%)

229 (16.4)

14 (14.6)

243 (16.2)

Drug use measures

 Number of drugs used in lifetimeb,c, mean (SD)

5.4 (5.6)

5.0 (5.2)

5.4 (5.6)

58 (3.9)

 Injection drug use in lifetime, n (%)

401 (28.7)

29 (30.2)

431 (28.8)

454 (30.3)

 Daily use of drugs before prison, n (%)

656 (47.0)

43 (44.8)

702 (46.8)

163 (10.9)

 Harmful substance use pre-incarceration, n (%)

876 (62.8)

57 (59.4)

933 (62.2)

35 (2.3)

 Intoxicated when committing the crime, n (%)

885 (63.4)

60 (62.5)

947 (63.2)

127 (8.5)

  1. aGender: 7 missing values
  2. bContinuous variable
  3. cIncluding non-prescribed medications