Volume : VI, Issue : IV, April - 2016
Mental Health Problem among Prison Population, Udaipur, Tripura.
Ms. Sumana Majumdar, Dr. Arpita Acharya
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Prisons are detrimental to mental–health. Prison inmates exhibit higher level of stress, depression and anxiety. Not a single study has found in Tripura about the mental health problem of the Jail inmates, both the inmates who are in conviction and under trial inmates. Present study is an attempt to examine whether there is any difference in level of depression, anxiety and stress of convicts with others who are under trials and whether the serving period of imprisonment have any effect on these three variables of mental phenomena of the convicts. 30 convicts of Udaipur District Jail, Tripura were studied along with the same number of under trial prisoners of the same jail. Results revealed that convicts were more depressed and stressed than the under trial inmates but under trial inmates are suffering from anxiety more than that of convicts.
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DOI : 10.36106/ijar
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Ms. Sumana Majumdar, Dr. Arpita Acharya Mental Health Problem among Prison Population, Udaipur, Tripura. Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.6, Issue : 4 April 2016
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