Table 3 Multilevel regression analysis of patient satisfaction1 with the prison health services in 29 prisons
From: The prisoner as patient - a health services satisfaction survey
Independent variables | Unadjusted2 | p | Adjusted2 | p |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Patient level variables | ||||
Age | .21 | .001 | .24 | .001 |
Gender (female = 1) | 4.66 | .301 | 5.11 | .140 |
Duration of treatment episode: | ||||
1-6 months compared with <1 month | 1.09 | .482 | -.17 | .919 |
> 6 months compared with <1 month | 2.34 | .192 | -1.00 | .605 |
Number of visits in the last three months: | ||||
2-5 visits in the last three months compared with 1 visit | 5.59 | < .001 | 4.56 | .004 |
6-12 visits in the last three months compared with 1 visit | 9.96 | < .001 | 10.58 | < .001 |
> 12 visits in the last three months compared with 1 visit | 11.49 | < .001 | 10.88 | < .001 |
Drug abuse when not incarcerated3 | -.63 | .150 | -.02 | .964 |
Sleeping difficulties3 | -3.89 | < .001 | -2.94 | < .001 |
Self-evaluated physical health3 | -2.41 | < .001 | -1.17 | .119 |
Self-evaluated mental health3 | -2.70 | < .001 | -1.33 | .047 |
Secondary education compared with obligatory/none | 1.69 | .230 | .89 | .565 |
University/college education compared with obligatory/none | 5.53 | .003 | 2.25 | .278 |
European compared with Norwegian as first language | 1.54 | .421 | 1.22 | .567 |
Non-European compared with Norwegian as first language | -.89 | .618 | 1.72 | .380 |
Remand prisoner compared with serving sentence | .24 | .890 | 1.45 | .456 |
Preventive detention compared with serving sentence | .69 | .867 | 2.51 | .559 |
Prison health service level variables | ||||
Senior staff member's service evaluation: | ||||
Enough resources compared with not | 3.49 | .268 | 7.90 | .028 |
Doing a good job regarding drug issues compared with not | 7.77 | .007 | 9.08 | .013 |
Doing a good job regarding mental health issues compared with not | .14 | .968 | -6.47 | .098 |
Capacity of prisoners/Full-time staff equivalents | -.03 | .580 | -.04 | .586 |
Prison size (capacity of prisoners) | -.02 | .214 | -.02 | .268 |
Closed prison compared with open prison | -2.57 | .472 | .53 | .909 |
Mixed compared with open prison | -2.58 | .566 | -1.90 | .718 |
Constant | 31.77 | < .001 | ||
Prison-level variance | 43.834 | .007 | 38.77 | .037 |
Patient-level variance | 454.924 | < .001 | 396.71 | < .001 |
ICC5 | 9% | 9% | ||
N | 1,144(max) | 901 |