Comportamentos de risco à saúde de reeducandas da Penitenciária Regional de Campina Grande Raimundo Asfora

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The health of the prison population in the world presents itself as an emerging public health problem, in that the conditions of confinement and overcrowding increase the likelihood of chronic and infectious diseases and exposure to risk factors to health. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the socio-demographic profile, the legal and criminal history and risk behaviors to health with emphasis on the use of illicit drugs and associated factors among inmates of a municipality and its association with socio-demographic factors, risk behaviors to health and disease self-reported. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Study consisted of a census, cross with a quantitative approach which involved 64 women incarcerated in Campina Grande Regional Penitentiary Raimundo Asfora. For data collection applied a structured questionnaire containing demographic data, legal and criminal history, risk behaviors, and drug use investigated by ASSIST instrument with adaptations for prisoners in the prison environment. Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis was carried out from Pearson's chi-square test ( ), with calculation of Odds Ratios (OR) gross and confidence interval (CI) of 95%. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was also performed in order to observe the behavior of the variables together, we adopted a significance level of 10%. RESULTS: The results showed a profile composed of young (60,9% ) with few years of schooling (79,7%), low family income (64,1% ), unmarried (57,8%) with children (84,4%) and sentenced (56,3%). Self said the most prevalent diseases were depression (26,6%) and hypertension (12,5%) . The prevalence of illicit drugs in their lifetime was 43.8%. The use of illicit drugs was related to a group of variables which together accounted significance: age 18- 29 years (p = 0.022), use of tobacco (p = 0.005), not carry out educational activities in the prison unit (p = 0.017), conduct visits in prison (p = 0.051), and not be arrested for trafficking (p = 0.091). CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of illicit drug use sometime in life was high and associated with poorer socio-demographic conditions and exposure to risk behaviors to health. These factors should be considered in strategies to promote health, such as creating public policy who view the epidemiological conditions that favor social exclusion and social vulnerabilities and specificities of the woman trapped, and how it can intervene in what is at the heart of negativity the health conditions of incarcerated women, being in line with actions in other spheres (education, public safety).