Evaluation of the Mental, Physical and Social Conditions of Prison Entrants in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Region" - Cross-sectional Survey Representative Sample, Prevalence Study

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT07593703

Acronym

SPC

Enrollment

697

Registered

2026-05-18

Start date

2014-03-10

Completion date

2017-03-09

Last updated

2026-05-18

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Conditions

Mental Health Issue

Keywords

france prison

Brief summary

The aim of the study was to estimate prevalence rates of psychiatric and substance use disorders in male and female prisoners on admission to prison in the north of France and compare the frequency of these disorders to the general population.

Detailed description

This cross-sectional survey on Mental Health in the Prison Population (MHPP), conducted between March 2014 and April 2017, interviewed 653 randomly selected men and women who had recently been committed to the French general population prison system in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments. The prevalence rates were then compared with data from the Mental Health in the General Population (MHGP) survey, a general population survey in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments. A control sample was taken from the MHGP survey with a ratio of one case (MHPP) to three controls (MHGP) matching on age and sex.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

consecutively committed people in eight of the nine remand prisons of Nord and Pas-de-Calais in France inclusion- (a) provide informed consent to participate in the survey, (b) speak French, (c) aged 18 years or older, (d) free of any mental or psychological incapacity to participate due to acute decompensation of a psychiatric disorder or severe substance withdrawal (i.e., health condition requiring emergency hospitalization), and (e) had been incarcerated for less than 72 h (sentenced or on remand)

Exclusion criteria

(a) no informed consent to participate in the survey, (b)do not speak French, (c) aged under18 years (d) with any mental or psychological incapacity to participate due to acute decompensation of a psychiatric disorder or severe substance withdrawal (i.e., health condition requiring emergency hospitalization), and (e) had been incarcerated for less than 72 h (sentenced or on remand) \-

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
psychiatric and substance use disorders	March 2014 to April 2017,	diagnosis

Contacts

STUDY_CHAIRPierre THOMAS, MD, PhD

University Hospital, Lille

Outcome results