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Australia
 
General Reports

         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
Hepatitis C virus infection in South Australian prisoners: seroprevalence, seroconversion, and risk factors.
Miller ER, Bi P, Ryan P. et al  
Int J Infect Dis. 2008 Sep 12
 Abstract
 
Prisons and HCV: a review and a report on an experience in New South Wales Australia.
Batey RG, Jones T, McAllister C. et al
Int J Prison Health. 2008 Sep;4(3):156-63.
 Abstract
 
Psychometric properties of Scheier and Carver's Life Orientation Test in a sample of Australian prisoners.
Allan MM, Giles M
Psychol Rep. 2008 Aug;103(1):305-22.
 Abstract
 
Could recidivism in prisoners be linked to traumatic grief? A review of the evidence.
Leach RM, Burgess T, Holmwood C.
Int J Prison Health. 2008 Jun;4(2):104-19.
 Abstract
 
Suicidal behaviour in prisons: Learning from Australian and international experiences.
Camilleri P, McArthur M.
Int J Law Psychiatry. 2008 Feb 18
Abstract

A WEEK-IN-REVIEW FEATURED REPORT
Ethics of organ donation and transplantation involving prisoners: the debate extends beyond our
borders.
Westall GP, Komesaroff P, Gorton MW, Snell GI.
Intern Med J. 2008 Jan;38(1):56-9.
 Abstract
 
Symptoms of trauma, perceptions of discrimination, and anger: a comparison between Australian
indigenous and nonindigenous prisoners.
Day A, Davey L, Wanganeen R, et al  
J Interpers Violence. 2008 Feb;23(2):245-58.
Abstract

The relationship between exercise and hopelessness in prison.
Cashin A, Potter E, Butler T.
J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs. 2008 Jan;15(1):66-71
 Abstract
 
Community Reintegration of Ex-Prisoners: Type and Degree of Change in Variables Influencing
Successful Reintegration.
Shinkfield AJ, Graffam J.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2007 Dec 6
 Abstract
 
Language and communication difficulties in juvenile offenders.
Bryan K, Freer J, Furlong C.
Int J Lang Commun Disord. 2007 Sep-Oct;42(5):505-20.
 Abstract
 
The Jailbreak Health Project--incorporating a unique radio programme for prisoners.
Minc A, Butler T, Gahan G.
 Int J Drug Policy. 2007 Oct;18(5):444-6.
Abstract
 
Prevalence of Mantoux positivity and annual risk of infection for tuberculosis in New South
Wales prisoners, 1996 and 2001.
Levy MH, Butler TG, Zhou J.
N S W Public Health Bull. 2007 Jul-Aug;18(7-8):119-24.
 Abstract
 
Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal health differentials in Australian prisoners.
Kariminia A, Butler T, Levy M.
Aust N Z J Public Health. 2007 Aug;31(4):366-71.
 Abstract
 
Factors associated with mortality in a cohort of Australian prisoners.
Kariminia A, Law MG, Butler TG, et al  
Eur J Epidemiol. 2007;22(7):417-28
 Abstract
 
FULL TEXT PDF ARTICLE
Prisons, hepatitis C and harm minimisation.
Levy MH, Treloar C, McDonald RM, Booker N. 
Med J Aust. 2007 Jun 18;186(12):647-9.
 Paper
 
A WEEK-IN-REVIEW FEATURED REPORT
Do condoms cause rape and mayhem? The long-term effects of condoms in New South
Wales' prisons.
Yap L, Butler T, Richters J, et al
Sex Transm Infect. 2006 Dec 19;
Abstract
 
Extreme cause-specific mortality in a cohort of adult prisoners--1988 to 2002: a
data-linkage study.
Kariminia A, Butler TG, Corben SP  
Int J Epidemiol. 2006 Dec 8
 Abstract
 
Risk and the preventive detention of sex offenders in Australia and the United States.
Mercado CC, Ogloff JR  
Int J Law Psychiatry. 2006 Dec 6
 Abstract
 
The meaning of anger for Australian indigenous offenders: the significance of context.
Day A, Davey L, Wanganeen R, Howells K, et al  
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2006 Oct;50(5):520-39.
 Abstract
 
Predictors of mental health service utilization in the 12 months before imprisonment:
analysis of results from a national prisons survey.
Farrell M, Boys A, Singleton N,  et al 
Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2006 Jun;40(6):548-53.
 Abstract

Custody and caring: innovations in Australian correctional mental health nursing
practice.
Doyle J.
Contemp Nurse. 2003 Jun;14(3):305-11.
Abstract


Epidemiology/Disease Seroprevalence/Incidence Studies   

         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
Hepatitis C virus infection in South Australian prisoners: seroprevalence, seroconversion,
and risk factors.
Miller ER, Bi P, Ryan P.
Int J Infect Dis. 2008 Sep 12.
 Abstract
 
The prevalence of HCV antibody in South Australian prisoners.
Miller ER, Bi P, Ryan P. et al   
J Infect. 2005 Nov 25;
 Abstract
 
Summer outbreak of respiratory disease in an Australian prison due to an influenza
A/Fujian/411/2002(H3N2)-like virus.
Young LC, Dwyer DE, Harris M,et al  
Epidemiol Infect. 2005 Feb;133(1):107-12.
 Abstract
 
Risk Factors for Hepatitis C Infection and Perception of Antibody Status among
Male Prison Inmates in the Hepatitis C Incidence and Transmission in Prisons
Study Cohort, Australia.
Gates JA, Post JJ, Kaldor JM,  et al
J Urban Health. 2004 Sep;81(3):448-452.
Abstract
 
The prevalence and the risk behaviours associated with the transmission of hepatitis C
virus in Australian correctional facilities.
Hellard ME, Hocking JS, Crofts N.  
Epidemiol Infect. 2004 Jun;132(3):409-15.
 Abstract

Hepatitis C transmission and HIV post-exposure prophylaxis after needle-and
syringe-sharing in Australian prisons.
O'Sullivan BG, Levy MH, Dolan KA 
Med J Aust. 2003 Jun 2;178(11):546-9.
Abstract

Acute hepatitis C virus infection in an Australian prison inmate: tattooing as a possible
transmission 
Post J, Dolan KA, Whybin LR,  et al
Med J Aust 2001 Feb 19;174(4):183-4 183-4 
Abstract

 Unrecognised transmission of tuberculosis in prisons.
MacIntyre CR, Kendig N, Kummer L
Eur J Epidemiol 1999 Sep;15(8):705-9
Abstract

Seroprevalence of markers for hepatitis B, C and G in male and  female prisoners--
SW,1996.
Butler T, Spencer J, Cui J, et al. A
Aust N Z J Public Health 1999 Aug;23(4):377-84
Abstract

 Transmission of hepatitis C within Australian prisons.
Haber PS, Parsons SJ, Harper SE. et al.
Med J Aust 1999 Jul 5;171(1):31-3
Abstract

Juveniles

     Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
Promising performance of a juvenile justice diversion programme in remote Aboriginal communities,
Northern Territory, Australia.
Clough AR, Kim San Lee K, Conigrave KM, et al 
Drug Alcohol Rev. 2008 Jul;27(4):433-8.
 Abstract
 
The physical health status of young Australian offenders.
Butler T, Belcher JM, Champion U, et al 
Aust N Z J Public Health. 2008 Feb;32(1):73-80.
 Abstract

Sexually transmitted infection and blood-borne virus screening in juvenile correctional facilities:
A review of the literature and recommendations for Australian centres.
Templeton DJ. 
J Clin Forensic Med. 2005 Aug 3;
Abstract
 
Women

     Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
Drug use by incarcerated women offenders.
Johnson H. 
Drug Alcohol Rev. 2006 Sep;25(5):433-7.
Abstract

Mental disorders in female prisoners.
Tye CS, Mullen PE. 
Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2006 Mar;40(3):266-71.
 Abstract

Prison Health Challenges

     Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
Temperament, substance use and psychopathology in a prisoner population: implications for treatment.
Allnutt S, Wedgwood L, Wilhelm K, Butler T.
Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2008 Nov;42(11):969-75
 Abstract
 
Suicidal behaviour in prisons: Learning from Australian and international experiences.
Camilleri P, McArthur M.
Int J Law Psychia
try. 2008 Feb 18
 Abstract
 
FULL TEXT ARTICLE
Suicide risk among recently released prisoners in New South Wales, Australia.
Kariminia A, Law MG, Butler TG, et al 
Med J Aust. 2007 Oct 1;187(7):387-90.
 Paper
 
The role of drug and alcohol policy in reducing Indigenous over-representation in prison.
Weatherburn DJ.
Drug Alcohol Rev. 2008 Jan;27(1):91-4
 Abstract
 
Suicide in New South Wales Prisons, 1995-2005: towards a better understanding.
O'driscoll C, Samuels A, Zacka M.
Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2007 Jun;41(6):519-24
 Abstract
 
Mental health status of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australian prisoners.
Butler T, Allnutt S, Kariminia A, Cain D.
Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2007 May;41(5):429-35.
 Abstract
 
Evaluation of a prison-based hepatitis B immunisation pilot project.
Devine A, Karvelas M, Sundararajan V. 
Aust N Z J Public Health. 2007 Apr;31(2):127-30
 Abstract
 
The 2004 Australian prison entrants' blood-borne virus and risk behaviour survey.
Butler T, Boonwaat L, Hailstone S. et al
 Aust N Z J Public Health. 2007 Feb;31(1):44-50.
 Abstract
 
Hair analysis underestimates heroin use in prisoners.
Shearer J, White B, Gilmour S, Wodak AD, Dolan KA.  
Drug Alcohol Rev. 2006 Sep;25(5):425-31.
 Abstract
 
The prevalence of HCV antibody in South Australian prisoners.
Miller ER, Bi P, Ryan P.  
Infect. 2006 Aug;53(2):125-30.
 Abstract
 
Mental disorders in Australian prisoners: a comparison with a community sample.
Butler T, Andrews G, Allnutt S, et al 
Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2006 Mar;40(3):272-6.
 Abstract

Prevalence of psychoses on reception to male prisons in New South Wales.
Nielssen O, Misrachi S.
Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2005 Jun;39(6):453-9
 Abstract
 
Four-year follow-up of imprisoned male heroin users and methadone treatment: mortality,
re-incarceration and hepatitis C infection.
Dolan KA, Shearer J, White B, et al
Addiction. 2005 Jun;100(6):820-8.
 Abstract
 
Mental disorder in the New South Wales prisoner population.
Butler T, Allnutt S, Cain D, et al   
Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2005 May;39(5):407-13.
 Abstract
 
A randomised controlled trial of methadone maintenance treatment versus wait list
control in an Australian prison system.
 Dolan KA, Shearer J, MacDonald M, et al
Drug Alcohol Depend. 2003 Oct 24;72(1):59-65.
 Abstract

Online eye care in prisons in Western Australia.
Yogesan K, Henderson C, Barry CJ, Constable IJ.
J Telemed Telecare 2001 Dec;7 Suppl 2(6):63-6
Abstract

   
  Syphilis in New South Wales (Australia) prisons.
Butler T, Robertson P, Kaldor J, Donovan B.
Int J STD AIDS 2001 Jun;12(6):376-379
Abstract
   
  A qualitative study of factors influencing psychiatric nursing practice in Australian
prisons
Doyle J.
Perspect Psychiatr Care 1999 Jan;35(1):29-35
Abstract
Fiji
 
         Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
  Prisoner rehabilitation project
J Vakalalabure                         
(14IAC)
 Abstract  
 The Philippines
 
         Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
  Cross-sectional study among the male prisoners in Davao city jail, Philippines
A A L Concepcion
 (14IAC)
 Abstract   
 
Promoting HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness in a Philippine prison setting-experiences
in the field
L B P Norella
 (14IAC)
 Abstract  
New Zealand
 

     Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
Does ethnicity affect need for mental health service among New Zealand prisoners?
Simpson AI, Brinded PM, Fairley N, et al.
Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2003 Dec;37(6):728-3
 Abstract

Prevalence of psychiatric disorders in New Zealand prisons: a national study.
Brinded PM,  Simpson AI, Laidlaw TM, et al
 Aust N Z J Psychiatry 2001 Apr;35(2):166-173
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