Is Obesity a Problem in a Juvenile Correctional Facility?

Robinson, Kelly; Haupt-Hoffman, Debbie; Stewart, Barbara; Schneider, Faye; Hamm, Nancy; Garrison, Vicki

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“…However, the increase was not statistically significant in the study by Robinson et al . , and the study by Lagarrigue et al . had a very small sample size .…”

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“…In this latter study, caloric restriction was used and prisoners were involved in daily work at the prison factory and had to engage in half hour of moderate exercise by walking around prison grounds. In the studies reporting average weight gain , weight gain ranged from 0.37 lb per week in a study of male prisoners with a mean length of incarceration of 179 d to 1.1 lb per week in a study of female prisoners with a median length of incarceration of 23 d . Five studies reported the proportion of participants changing weight categories ; the proportion of participants who were OW/OB increased during incarceration in these studies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Three studies were found through a search of grey literature. Therefore, a total of 16 studies were included in this review (24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38)(39). Figure 1 shows the steps followed in the literature search.…”

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Weight gain during incarceration: systematic review and meta‐analysis

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“…However, the increase was not statistically significant in the study by Robinson et al . , and the study by Lagarrigue et al . had a very small sample size .…”

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Weight gain during incarceration: systematic review and meta‐analysis

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“…Similarly, existing literature about prison food and nutrition offers guidance on how to comply with nutritional standards, legal requirements, and budgetary and security issues (e.g. Brisman, 2008; Cray, 2001; Edwards, Hartwell, Reeve, & Schafheitle, 2007; Foster, 2006; Herbert, Plugge, Foster, & Doll, 2012; Stein, 2000; Tammam, Gillam, Gesch, & Stein, 2012; Wakeen, 2008), and describes interventions to improve prisoner diets and help inmates lose weight (Eves & Gesch, 2003; Khavjou et al, 2007; Nikolas, 2000; Robinson, Haupt-Hoffman, Stewart, Schneider, Hamm, & Garrison, 2006). …”

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Dealing food: Female drug users’ narratives about food in a prison place and implications for their health

Smoyer

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2014

International Journal of Drug Policy

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Background Prison is a major “place” for drug users in the US, yet remarkably little is known about the lived experience of incarceration. More information about prison life is needed to improve health outcomes for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. Methods Thirty (30) formerly incarcerated women were interviewed about prison food. All interviews were digitally recorded and transcribed. Qualitative data analysis software was used to code and organize the data using thematic analysis. Results As described in these participants’ narratives, prison food systems contributed to the construction of boundaries that distinguished the prison place from places and life outside the institution's walls. Participants also described boundaries within the prison that resulted in a patchwork of interior places, each with their own unique structure, meaning, and food system. These places, constructed by physical location, movement, and power, or lack thereof, included various micro-geographies that further defined women's individual prison experience. The boundaries that separated these places were not fixed: Women shifted and diminished internal and external borders by resisting food policies and reproducing their outside lives inside. Conclusion These findings call for public policy officials and prison administrators to reexamine the prison place in order to facilitate healthier eating behaviors and lay the groundwork for more positive communication between inmates and correctional staff and administration. More research is needed to measure how these types of changes to the prison food environment impact nutritional, mental health, substance abuse, and criminal justice outcomes.

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“…Recent work demonstrates both incarcerated men and women are at higher risk for obesity and obesity related diseases [3][4][5][6][7][8]. This risk may be especially disproportionate for incarcerated juveniles [9] and for incarcerated women [6,[10][11][12][13]. Some of this work has documented incarceration as an independent risk factor for unhealthy weight status as well as chronic disease burden.…”

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Understanding Weight Change while Incarcerated: Qualitative Groundwork for a Collaborative Health Intervention

Clarke¹

2017

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Addressing obesity behind bars has increasingly attracted attention from public health researchers and correctional administrators, while still remaining an often elusive goal. Certainly, obesity prevention in any current context has proven challenging [15][16][17][18]. In some ways, addressing obesity within the correctional setting offers opportunities, for example, the benefit of the "captive audience" who may not otherwise access healthcare [19]. Finally, the burgeoning costs of managing chronic conditions associated with obesity in the incarcerated setting further engage otherwise unlikely partners for public health interventions [20,21]. For example, the expense of diabetes-related health care has been estimated at $25,675 per inmate annually [22].A health intervention to address obesity within the incarcerated setting could focus on individual behaviorthrough education, one-on-one or group counseling or other tailored programming-or could focus on facility level change such as impacting the foodscape within prison, or other systemic restructuring. Interpersonal counseling, which has been shown to be an effective means to dietary change [23][24][25], plays a limited role in correctional settings due its high cost. Targeted health education interventions, tailored to the needs of their specific target population, are a promising strategy for addressing obesity in incarcerated populations [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]. However, few of these tailored interventions have been developed for low income, ethnically diverse audiences and those adapted for use in correctional settings have not yet been documented to effectively deliver on outcomes [32][33][34]. One possible reason for the lack of effectiveness of these tailored intervention is a lack of understanding of the specific barriers and facilitators to healthy weight maintenance while incarcerated. Indeed, new participatory based research has offered more successful interventions [35]. Island, 111 Brewster Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860, Tel: 401-729-3400; Fax: 401-729-2494; E-mail: Jennifer_Clarke@brown.edu AbstractIn the context of the ever-increasing incarcerated population in the U.S. and our "obesity epidemic," recent work has investigated whether incarcerated individuals are at higher risk for obesity and related diseases. We build on this scholarship by interviewing incarcerated men and women, as well as correctional facility staff to parse the barriers and facilitators to maintaining a healthy weight on the inside. This qualitative analysis forms the groundwork for a collaborative health intervention to address weight gain and weight maintenance in a U.S. correctional facility.

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Is Obesity a Problem in a Juvenile Correctional Facility?

Cited by 12 publications

References 17 publications

Weight gain during incarceration: systematic review and meta‐analysis

Weight gain during incarceration: systematic review and meta‐analysis

Dealing food: Female drug users’ narratives about food in a prison place and implications for their health

Understanding Weight Change while Incarcerated: Qualitative Groundwork for a Collaborative Health Intervention

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