Table 2 Multilevel logistic regression analysis of contact with the prison health services in 29 prisons
From: Health care help seeking behaviour among prisoners in Norway
Independent variables | Unadjusted OR1 | 95% CI | Adjusted OR1 | 95% CI | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Patient level variables | ||||||
Age in 10-year intervals | 1.24 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 1.26 | 1.1 | 1.4 |
Sex (female = 1) | 0.84 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 0.76 | 0.3 | 1.9 |
No drug misuse outside prison (reference) | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
- rarely | 1.15 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 1.15 | 0.7 | 1.8 |
- sometimes | 1.21 | 0.9 | 1.7 | 1.26 | 0.9 | 1.8 |
- often | 1.06 | 0.7 | 1.6 | 0.98 | 0.6 | 1.5 |
- all the time | 1.87 | 1.3 | 2.8 | 1.65 | 1.1 | 2.6 |
No sleep problems (reference) | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
- rarely | 1.44 | 0.9 | 2.2 | 1.29 | 0.8 | 2.0 |
- sometimes | 1.46 | 1.0 | 2.1 | 1.26 | 0.9 | 1.8 |
- often | 2.93 | 2.0 | 4.3 | 2.31 | 1.5 | 3.5 |
- all the time | 2.83 | 1.9 | 4.2 | 1.96 | 1.3 | 3.1 |
Excellent/very good physical health (reference) | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
- good | 1.05 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 0.88 | 0.6 | 1.2 |
- not so good | 1.66 | 1.2 | 2.4 | 1.00 | 0.7 | 1.6 |
- poor | 1.93 | 1.2 | 3.0 | 1.09 | 0.6 | 1.9 |
Excellent/very good mental health (reference) | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
- good | 1.09 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 0.93 | 0.7 | 1.3 |
- not so good | 1.87 | 1.3 | 2.6 | 1.31 | 0.9 | 2.0 |
- poor | 2.10 | 1.5 | 3.1 | 1.45 | 0.9 | 2.3 |
Compulsory/no education (reference) | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
- secondary education | 0.89 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 0.97 | 0.7 | 1.3 |
- university/college education | 0.75 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.75 | 0.5 | 1.1 |
Norwegian as first language (reference) | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
- European | 0.95 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 1.16 | 0.8 | 1.7 |
- non-European | 1.08 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 1.13 | 0.8 | 1.6 |
Serving sentence (reference) | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
- remand prisoner | 0.68 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.60 | 0.4 | 0.9 |
- preventive detention | 0.72 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 0.45 | 0.2 | 1.2 |
Prison level variables | ||||||
Full time staff equivalents/100 prisoners | 1.14 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.09 | 0.9 | 1.3 |
Capacity (number of prisoners) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Open prison (reference) | 1.00 | 1..00 | ||||
- closed prison | 2.13 | 1.3 | 3.5 | 1.95 | 1.0 | 3.9 |
- mixed prison | 1.32 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 1.25 | 0.6 | 2.5 |
Prison-level variance | 0.28 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.20 | 0.1 | 0.5 |
ICC | 0.08 | 0.06 | ||||
N | 1, 383(max) | 1, 291 | ||||