Associated Factors of Quality of Life in Prison Officers, Brazil
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Variables | N | % |
---|---|---|
Gender | ||
Male | 202 | 75.1 |
Female | 67 | 24.9 |
Age in years | ||
<30 | 102 | 37.9 |
≥30 | 167 | 62.1 |
Race | ||
White | 75 | 28.1 |
Non-white | 192 | 71.9 |
Spouse | ||
Yes | 147 | 54.6 |
No | 122 | 45.4 |
Children | ||
Yes | 121 | 45.0 |
No | 148 | 55.0 |
Higher Education | ||
Yes | 189 | 70.5 |
No | 79 | 29.5 |
Religion | ||
Yes | 228 | 85.1 |
No | 40 | 14.9 |
Sexual orientation | ||
Heterosexual | 262 | 97.4 |
Homosexual | 7 | 2.6 |
Private health insurance | ||
Yes | 160 | 59.5 |
No | 109 | 40.5 |
Working experience (years) | ||
<5 years | 224 | 83.3 |
≥5 years | 45 | 16.7 |
Workload | ||
24hours/4 days | 204 | 75.8 |
40 h/week | 55 | 20.4 |
30 h/week | 10 | 3.7 |
History of workplace inmate-PO violence | ||
Yes | 52 | 19.3 |
No | 217 | 80.7 |
History of workplace PO-PO violence | ||
Yes | 44 | 16.5 |
No | 223 | 83.5 |
General Issues | Minimum | Maximum | Mean | SD | 95% Confidence Interval |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Overall quality of life | 0.0 | 100.0 | 73.3 | 17.7 | 71.1–75.4 |
General health | 0.0 | 100.0 | 68.8 | 20.4 | 66.2–71.1 |
Domains | Minimum | Maximum | Mean | SD | 95% Confidence Interval | Cronbach Coefficient |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Physical | 32.1 | 100.0 | 74.5 | 14.1 | 72.8–76.2 | 0.784 |
Psychological | 29.1 | 100.0 | 74.9 | 13.1 | 73.2–76.4 | 0.726 |
Social relations | 0.0 | 100.0 | 75.0 | 17.1 | 73.0–77.0 | 0.689 |
Environment | 18.8 | 93.8 | 59.9 | 14.9 | 58.0–61.5 | 0.761 |
Variables | Physical Domain | Psychological Domain | Social Relationships Domain | Environment Domain | ||||||||
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Mean | SD | p-Value | Mean | SD | p-Value | Mean | SD | p-Value | Mean | SD | p-Value | |
Gender | ||||||||||||
male | 76.3 | 13.8 | 0.001 | 76.1 | 12.7 | 0.004 | 76.7 | 16.7 | 0.011 | 60.9 | 14.3 | 0.023 |
female | 69.4 | 14.0 | - | 70.8 | 14.2 | - | 70.5 | 18.0 | - | 56.1 | 16.1 | - |
Age | ||||||||||||
<30 years | 75.1 | 13.0 | 0.650 | 72.7 | 13.5 | 0.041 | 75.2 | 16.2 | 0.986 | 58.6 | 14.3 | 0.315 |
≥30 years | 74.3 | 14.9 | - | 76.1 | 13.0 | - | 75.1 | 17.8 | - | 60.4 | 15.2 | - |
Race | ||||||||||||
white | 75.0 | 12.8 | 0.822 | 75.6 | 10.7 | 0.450 | 76.2 | 12.9 | 0.455 | 62.0 | 12.0 | 0.082 |
non-white | 74.5 | 14.7 | - | 74.4 | 14.2 | - | 74.7 | 18.7 | - | 58.8 | 15.9 | - |
Spouse | ||||||||||||
yes | 74.5 | 14.4 | 0.938 | 76.7 | 11.6 | 0.012 | 76.6 | 16.5 | 0.137 | 61.1 | 14.8 | 0.101 |
no | 74.7 | 13.9 | - | 72.5 | 14.8 | - | 73.4 | 17.8 | - | 58.1 | 14.9 | - |
Children | ||||||||||||
yes | 74.0 | 15.2 | 0.554 | 76.1 | 13.3 | 0.146 | 75.5 | 16.5 | 0.768 | 61.1 | 15.5 | 0.183 |
no | 75.1 | 13.3 | - | 73.7 | 13.2 | - | 74.9 | 17.8 | - | 58.6 | 14.3 | - |
Higher Education | ||||||||||||
yes | 74.2 | 13.7 | 0.440 | 74.3 | 13.3 | 0.289 | 73.4 | 17.0 | 0.006 | 60.1 | 14.4 | 0.656 |
no | 75.7 | 15.4 | - | 76.2 | 12.9 | - | 79.6 | 16.9 | - | 59.1 | 16.1 | - |
Religion | ||||||||||||
no | 75.3 | 15.5 | 0.749 | 73.0 | 16.7 | 0.452 | 73.5 | 18.6 | 0.509 | 59.9 | 15.3 | 0.911 |
yes | 74.5 | 14.0 | - | 75.1 | 12.6 | - | 75.5 | 17.0 | - | 59.6 | 14.9 | - |
Sexual orientation | ||||||||||||
heterosexual | 74.7 | 14.2 | 0.550 | 75.0 | 13.3 | 0.161 | 75.3 | 17.3 | 0.446 | 59.8 | 14.9 | 0.701 |
homosexual | 71.4 | 14.0 | - | 67.9 | 9.5 | - | 70.2 | 15.1 | - | 57.6 | 15.0 | - |
Private health insurance | ||||||||||||
yes | 74.2 | 13.7 | 0.551 | 75.7 | 12.6 | 0.197 | 76.9 | 15.3 | 0.045 | 62.6 | 13.9 | 0.000 |
no | 75.2 | 14.9 | - | 73.5 | 14.1 | - | 72.6 | 19.4 | - | 55.4 | 15.3 | - |
Work experience in years | ||||||||||||
<5 years | 75.0 | 13.9 | 0.237 | 74.7 | 13.1 | 0.888 | 74.5 | 16.9 | 0.160 | 58.7 | 14.6 | 0.010 |
≥5 years | 72.3 | 15.5 | - | 75.1 | 14.2 | - | 78.4 | 18.4 | - | 64.9 | 15.4 | - |
Workload | ||||||||||||
24 h/4 days | 75.0 | 14.0 | 0.642 | 75.0 | 13.1 | 0.656 | 74.4 | 17.6 | 0.421 | 59.6 | 14.5 | 0.408 |
40 h/week | 73.0 | 14.9 | - | 73.7 | 13.3 | - | 77.7 | 16.4 | - | 60.0 | 16.3 | - |
30 h/week | 74.9 | 12.6 | - | 77.5 | 16.4 | - | 76.7 | 12.3 | - | 61.6 | 17.1 | - |
History of workplace inmate-PO violence | ||||||||||||
yes | 72.4 | 14.8 | 0.219 | 71.6 | 14.5 | 0.053 | 70.8 | 15.9 | 0.044 | 57.5 | 13.4 | 0.235 |
no | 75.1 | 14.0 | - | 75.6 | 12.9 | - | 76.2 | 17.4 | - | 60.3 | 15.2 | - |
History of workplace PO-PO violence | ||||||||||||
yes | 69.30 | 16.5 | 0.021 | 71.7 | 13.0 | 0.097 | 69.2 | 16.2 | 0.014 | 54.8 | 14.3 | 0.016 |
no | 75.58 | 13.5 | - | 75.3 | 13.3 | - | 76.2 | 17.2 | - | 60.7 | 14.9 |
Variables | Physical Domain a R2 = 0.068 | Psychological Domain b R2 = 0.068 | Social relationships Domain c R2 = 0.097 | Environment Domain d R2 = 0.100 | ||||||||
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B | 95% CI | p-Value | B | 95% CI | p-Value | B | 95% CI | p-Value | B | 95% CI | p-Value | |
Female | −6.57 | –10.41; –2.73 | 0.001 | –5.25 | –8.89; –1.62 | 0.005 | –6.13 | –10.76; –1.51 | 0.010 | –4.10 | –8.08; –0.12 | 0.044 |
Without a spouse(a) | –3.81 | –6.96; –0.67 | 0.018 | |||||||||
Working experience in years | 0.04 | 0.00; 0.07 | 0.050 | 0.03 | 0.00; 0.07 | 0.038 | ||||||
College | 6.26 | 1.82; 10.69 | 0.006 | |||||||||
Without private health insurance | –3.58 | –7.80; 0.64 | 0.096 | –6.02 | –9.63; –2.41 | 0.001 | ||||||
Without history of workplace violence prisoner-prison officer | 3.55 | 0.41; 6.69 | 0.027 | 5.50 | 1.39; 9.62 | 0.009 | ||||||
Without history of workplace violence prison officer-prison officer | 5.91 | 1.45; 10.38 | 0.010 | 4.46 | 0.61; 8.32 | 0.023 |
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Araújo, C.S.C.; Minamisava, R.; Matos, M.A.; Vieira, C.C.F.; Vitorino, P.V.O.; Rodríguez-Martín, D.; Chaveiro, N.; Oliveira, L.M.A.C.; Brasil, V.V.; Nogueira, D.J.; et al. Associated Factors of Quality of Life in Prison Officers, Brazil. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 3508. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17103508
Araújo CSC, Minamisava R, Matos MA, Vieira CCF, Vitorino PVO, Rodríguez-Martín D, Chaveiro N, Oliveira LMAC, Brasil VV, Nogueira DJ, et al. Associated Factors of Quality of Life in Prison Officers, Brazil. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17(10):3508. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17103508
Chicago/Turabian StyleAraújo, Cristiane S. C., Ruth Minamisava, Marcos A. Matos, Camila C. F. Vieira, Priscila V. O. Vitorino, Dolors Rodríguez-Martín, Neuma Chaveiro, Lizete M. A. C. Oliveira, Virginia V. Brasil, Douglas J. Nogueira, and et al. 2020. "Associated Factors of Quality of Life in Prison Officers, Brazil" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 10: 3508. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17103508