Trauma, stress, health, and mental health issues among ethnically diverse older adult prisoners

Journal of Correctional Health Care

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 220-229

  Haugebrook, Sabrina ^b   Zgoba, Kristen M ^a   Maschi, Tina ^b   Morgen, Keith ^c   Brown, Derek ^b  

^a Office of Policy and Planning   (United States)

^b FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Centenary University   (United States)

Author keywords

Correctional health care; Elderly inmates; Inmate health; Life event stressors; Older adults; Prisioners; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRISON; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NEW JERSEY; PREVALENCE; PRISONERS; PRISONS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 77953816566     PISSN: 10783458     EISSN: 19405200     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1078345810367482     Document Type: Article

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