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General Reports

     Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 

Tattooing in prison: a risk factor for HCV infection among inmates in the Quebec's provincial correctional system.
Poulin C, Courtemanche Y, Serhir B, Alary M.

Ann Epidemiol
. 2018 Apr;28(4):231-235.
Abstract

Social determinants of health among Canadian inmates.
Stewart LA, Nolan A, Thompson J, Power J.
Int J Prison Health. 2018 Mar 12;14(1):4-15.
Abstract

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Do people who experience incarceration age more quickly? Exploratory analyses using retrospective cohort data on mortality from Ontario, Canada.
Kouyoumdjian FG, Andreev EM, Borschmann R,et a;; 
P
LoS One
. 2017 Apr 14;12(4):e0175837
Paper

The effect of incarceration on housing stability among homeless and vulnerably housed individuals in three Canadian cities: A prospective cohort study.
To MJ, Palepu A, Matheson FI,

Can J Public Health
. 2017 Mar 1;107(6):e550-e555
Abstract

Access to healthcare services during incarceration among female inmates.
Ahmed R, Angel C, Martel R, Pyne D, Keenan L

Int J Prison Health. 2016 Dec 19;12(4):204-215.
Abstract

Constructions and Negotiations of Sexuality in Canadian Federal Men's Prisons.
Ricciardelli R, Grills S, Craig A. 
J Homosex
. 2016 Dec;63(12):1660-1684.
Abstract

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Access to primary care in adults in a provincial correctional facility in Ontario.
Green S, Foran J, Kouyoumdjian FG.
 
BMC Res Notes
. 2016 Feb 29;9(1):131.
Paper

Expert Opinion and Recommendations for the Management of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Correctional Facilities.
Scott DA, Gignac M, Kronfli RN,
 et al
J Correct Health Care
. 2016 Jan;22(1):46-61.
Abstract

Offenders with Cognitive Deficits in a Canadian Prison Population: Prevalence, Profile, and Outcomes.
Stewart LA, Wilton G, Sapers J.
Int J Law Psychiatry. 2015 Sep 1.
Abstract

Social and Structural Factors Shaping High Rates of Incarceration among Sex Workers in a Canadian Setting.
Socías ME, Deering K, Horton M, et al  
J Urban Health. 2015 Aug 11
Abstract

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Chronic health conditions reported by male inmates newly admitted to Canadian federal penitentiaries.
Stewart LA, Nolan A, Sapers J,  et al
CMAJ Open. 2015 Jan 13;3(1):E97-E102.
Paper

Participatory health research within a prison setting: a qualitative analysis of 'Paragraphs of passion'
Ramsden V, Martin R, McMillan J,  et al 
Glob Health Promot. 2014 Oct 13. pii: 1757975914547922.
Abstract

Male inmate profiles and their biological correlates.
Horn M, Potvin S, Allaire JF,  et al

Can J Psychiatry
. 2014 Aug;59(8):441-9.
Abstract

Traumatic Brain Injury and Early Life Experiences Among Men and Women in a Prison Population.
Colantonio A, Kim H, Allen S,  et al  
J Correct Health Care. 2014 Jul 17.
Abstract

FULL TEXT PDF ARTICLE
Years of life lost to incarceration: inequities between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians.
Owusu-Bempah A, Kanters S, Druyts E, et al
BMC Public Health. 2014 Jun 11;14(1):585.
Paper

Homeless and incarcerated: An epidemiological study from Canada.
Saddichha S, Fliers JM, Frankish J,  et al
Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2014 Mar 3.
Abstract

Students' experience of prison health education during medical school.
Filek H, Harris J, Koehn J,  et al
Med Teach. 2013 Sep 5.
Abstract

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in a Canadian prison population.
Usher AM, Stewart LA, Wilton G.
Int J Law Psychiat
ry
. 2013 Apr 29.
Abstract

Childhood sexual victimization, pedophilic interest, and sexual recidivism.
Nunes KL, Hermann CA, Renee Malcom J, Lavoie K.
Child Abuse Negl. 2013 Mar 18.
Abstract

Childhood ADHD Symptoms Are Associated With Lifetime and Current Illicit Substance-Use Disorders and In-Site Health Risk Behaviors in a Representative Sample of Latino Prison Inmates.
González RA, Vélez-Pastrana MC, Ruiz Varcárcel JJ, et al
J Atten Disord
. 2012 Dec 4.
Abstract

A Comparison of Drug-Related and Sexual Risk-Behaviours in the Community and Prison for Canadian Federal Inmates
Zakaria D, ThompsonJ, Borgatta F
Research Report R-20. Ottawa: Correctional Service Canada. July 2010
Abstract

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Self-perceived strengths among people who are homeless.
Tweed RG, Biswas-Diener R, Lehman DR.
J Posit Psychol. 2012 Nov;7(6):481-492.
Paper

Community voices in program development: the wisdom of individuals with incarceration experience.
O'Gorman CM, Smith Martin M, Oliffe J
L et al
Can J Public Health
. 2012 Jul 18;103
Abstract

Civilizing the 'Barbarian': a critical analysis of behaviour modification programmes in forensic
psychiatry settings
.

Holmes D, Murray SJ.
J Nurs Manag
. 2011 Apr;19(3):293-301
Abstract

Summary of the 2007 National Inmate Infectious Diseases and Risk-Behaviours Survey for Women. Ottawa:
Thompson J., Zakaria D.  Grant,B.
Research Report  239 Ottawa: Correctional Service Canada. February 2011
Abstract

Aboriginal Men: A Summary of the Findings of the 2007 National Inmate Infectious Diseases and Risk-Behaviours Survey
Thompson J., Zakaria D,  Grant B.
Research
Report  247 Ottawa: Correctional Service Canada. February 2011
Abstract

Emotion-focused therapy for incarcerated offenders of intimate partner violence:A 3-year outcome using a new whole-sample matching method.
Pascual-Leone A, Bierman R, Arnold R, Stasiak E.
Psychother Res
. 2011 Apr 18:1-17.
Abstract

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Prisons and public health.
Cowan-Dewar J, Kendall C, Palepu A.
Open Med
. 2011;5(3):e132-3.
Commentary

Review of enteric outbreaks in prisons: Effective infection control interventions.
Greig JD, Lee MB, Harris JE.
Public Health
. 2011 Mar 25.
Abstract
 

Substance Use/Abuse

       Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
"It Goes on Everywhere": Injection Drug Use in Canadian Federal Prisons.
van der Meulen E. 
Subst Use Misuse. 2017 Jun 7;52(7):884-891.
Abstract

Outcomes of Offenders With Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders and Mental Disorders.
Wilton G, Stewart LA. 
Psychiatr Serv. 2017 Mar 15
Abstract

The Elusive Goal of Drug-Free Prisons.
Watson TM.
Subst Use Misuse. 2016 Jan 12:1-13
Abstract

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Impact Evaluation of an Addiction Intervention Program in a Quebec Prison.
Arseneault C, Alain M, Plourde C, et al

Subst Abuse
. 2015 Jun 1;9:47-57.
Paper

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Incarceration is associated with used syringe lending among active injection drug users with detectable plasma HIV-1 RNA: a longitudinal analysis.
Milloy MJ, Kerr T, Salters K,  et al

BMC Infect Dis
. 2013 Dec 1;13:565
Paper

Recent Incarceration Linked to Cutaneous Injection-Related Infections Among Active Injection Drug Users in a Canadian Setting.
Milloy MJ, Wood E, Lloyd-Smith E,  et al 

J Community Health
. 2010 Apr 3
Abstract

Use of bleach and the methadone maintenance treatment program as harm reduction measures in Canadian Penitentiaries.
Thompson, J., Zakaria, D., Jarvis, A.
Research Report-210 Ottawa: Correctional Service Canada. August 2010
Abstract

 
          Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters  
 
 
On point: making prison-based needle and syringe programs work in Canada
S.K.H. Chu, S. Clarke, J. Danforth, et al
(XX International AIDS Conference)
Abstract

HIV

       Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
Twelve Committed Men: the feasibility of a community-based participatory HIV-prevention intervention within a Canadian men's correctional facility.
Martin RE, Turner R, Howett L,  

Glob Health Promot
. 2016 Oct 25.
Abstract

'HIV outcomes at a Canadian remand centre.
Subramanian Y, Khan MN, Berger S, et al
Int J Prison Health. 2016 Sep 12;12(3):145-156.
Abstract

Relationships between Health Risk-Behaviours, Self-Perceived Risk for Infection, and Testing for Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Hepatitis C Virus Infections among Canadian Federal Inmates
Zakaria, D
Report R-254. Ottawa: Correctional Service Canada September 2011
Abstract

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Prisons and public health.
Cowan-Dewar J, Kendall C, Palepu A.
Open Med
. 2011;5(3):e132-3.
Commentary

Cost and Threshold Analysis of an HIV/STI/Hepatitis Prevention Intervention for Young Men Leaving Prison:Project START.
Johnson AP, Macgowan RJ, Eldridge GD, et al
AIDS Behav
. 2011 Nov 29.
Abstract

   
 
Chagas Disease

       Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 

  FULL TEXT ARTICLE
Cerebral trypanosomiasis in an incarcerated man
Satnam S. Nijjar and Marc R. Del Bigio  

CMAJ 2007;176 448
Paper

Hepatitis C

       Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
Re-infection of hepatitis C virus infection in HIV/HCV co-infected inmates of correctional institutions, Canada.
Farley J, Truong A, Horvath G,  et al
J Int AIDS Soc. 2012 Nov 11;15(6):18422.
Abstract

Relationships between Health Risk-Behaviours, Self-Perceived Risk for Infection, and Testing for Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Hepatitis C Virus Infections among Canadian Federal Inmates
Zakaria, D
Research Report R-254. Ottawa: Correctional Service Canada February 2012
Abstract

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Prison puzzle: Treating hepatitis C.
Webster PC.
CMAJ
. 2012 May 7.
Paper

Mumps

       Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 

  Mumps in prison: description of an outbreak in Manitoba, Canada.
Walkty A, Van Caeseele P, Hilderman T,  et al
Can J Public Health
. 2011 Sep-Oct;102(5):341-4.

Abstract

Staph Infections

       Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Outbreak in Alberta of community-acquired (USA300) methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in people with a history of drug use, homelessness or incarceration
Gilber
M, JMacDonald K,  Gregson D,  et al
 
CMAJ •
July 18, 2006; 175 (2).
Paper
STIs
 
       Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 

 

Awareness and Use of Harm Reduction Measures for Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in Canadian Penitentiaries
Thompson, J., Zakaria, D., & Borgatta, F.
Research Report-210 Ottawa: Correctional Service Canada. August 2010
Abstract

Mental Health

       Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
Outcomes of Offenders With Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders and Mental Disorders.
Wilton G, Stewart LA. 
Psychiatr Serv. 2017 Mar 15
Abstract

Evaluation of the Impact Personality Disorder Project - A psychologically-informed consultation, training and mental health collaboration approach to probation offender management.
Clark S, John Chuan S.
Crim Behav Ment Health. 2015 May 28
Abstract

Criminal justice system contact and mortality among offenders with mental illness in British Columbia: an assessment of mediation.
McCandless LC, Stewart LC, Rempel ES,  et al
 
J Epidemiol Community Health
. 2014 Dec 11. pii: jech-2013-203705.
Abstract

Clinical characteristics and service use of incarcerated males with severe mental disorders: a comparative case-control study with patients found not criminally responsible.
Dumais A, Côté G, Larue C, et al 
Issues Ment Health Nurs. 2014 Aug;35(8):597-603
Abstract

Challenges for Canada in meeting the needs of persons with serious mental illness in prison.
Simpson AI, McMaster JJ, Cohen SN.

J Am Acad Psychiatry Law
. 2013;41(4):501-9.
Abstract

How to improve testing when trying to predict inmate suicidal behavior.
Naud H, Daigle MS.
Int J Law Psychiatry. 2013 Jul 10.
Abstract

A comparison of scoring models for computerised mental health screening for federal prison inmates.
Martin MS, Wamboldt AD, O'Connor SL,et al 

Crim Behav Ment Health. 2013 Jan 25.
Abstract

The Cultural Construction of Mental Illness in Prison: A Perfect Storm of Pathology.
Galanek JD.
Cult Med Psychiatry
. 2012 Dec 2.
Abstract

Prevalence and Incidence of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Among Federally Sentenced Women in Canada
Power J, Brown SL, Usher AM
Criminal Justice and Behavior 2013 40: 302
Abstract

Psychopathy and crime: Testing the incremental validity of PCL-R-measured psychopathy as a predictor of general and violent recidivism.
Walters GD.
Law Hum Behav. 2012 Oct;36(5):404-12.
Abstract

Lifetime Criminal History of Sex Offenders Seen for Psychological Assessment in Five Decades.
Langevin R, Curnoe S.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2011 Aug 23.
Abstract

Predictive Accuracy of Dynamic Risk Factors for Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Sex Offenders: An Exploratory Comparison Using STABLE-2007.
Helmus L, Babchishin KM, Blais J.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2011 Aug 4.
Abstract

Sexual Offenders

       Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 

  Comparing Sexual Offenders at the Regional Treatment Centre (Ontario) and the Florida Civil Commitment Center.
Wilson RJ, Looman J, Abracen J, Pake DR Jr.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol
. 2012 Jan 19.
Abstract

Lifetime Criminal History of Sex Offenders Seen for Psychological Assessment in Five Decades.
Langevin R, Curnoe S.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2011 Aug 23.
Abstract

 

Suicide and Self Harm

       Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  Prevalence and Incidence of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Among Federally Sentenced Women in Canada
Power J, Brown SL, Usher AM
Criminal Justice and Behavior 2013 40: 302
Abstract

Peer suicide prevention in a prison.
Hall B, Gabor P.

Crisis. 2004;25(1):19-26.
Abstract


Iceland
 

       Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  Mental disorder, imprisonment and reduced life expectancy - A nationwide psychiatric inpatient cohort study.
Steingrimsson S, Sigurdsson MI, Gudmundsdottir H,  et al
Crim Behav Ment Health. 2015 Feb 23
Abstract


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