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Table 2 Participants’ detention clinic care utilization in the prior month

From: Factors Associated with patient satisfaction towards a prison detention Clinic Care among male drug-using inmates

Variable

n

%

Mean ± SD (range)

Have ever used detention care (n = 580)

   

No

184

31.7

 

Yes

396

68.3

 

Clinical department (n = 502) a

   

Family medicine

344

68.6

 

Dental clinic

70

13.9

 

Psychiatric clinic

46

9.2

 

Guard medication outside prison

13

2.6

 

Unknown

29

5.8

 

Detention care visits monthly (n = 365)

  

1.38 b (1–20)

1 visit

208

57.0

 

≧ 2 visits

157

43.0

 
  1. a Multiple choice. b Calculated by 801 visits/580 inmates = 1.38, so the average number of annual visits per person was 16.5 (1.38 visits × 12 months).