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K.V.REDDY President All India Prison Officers Association 09440060055 www.aipoa.com kvreddydsp@yahoo.

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Mental Health Problems among Prison Personnel


Objective
1. To identify the magnitude of minor mental health problems, among prison personnel. 2. To identify the nature of these problems among this group and delineate various factors associated with mental health problems among prison personnel.

Important Findings Reasons reported for stress and psychological problems are:
1. Heavy workload and long working hours without break. 2. Conflicting orders from senior officers which cause lot of confusion for the prison men and prevent them to do their job in a stress free way. 3. High level of stress due to undue harassment by senior officials. 4. 52% of personnel cannot give time to families, as they do not stay with their families. 5. Lack of appropriate leave facilities was felt to be major source of stress. 6. Poor job incentives and security. 7. Lack of additional facilities for families and self like: (a) Health reimbursement. (b) Nominal scholarship for children. (c) Provision of Government quarters close to place of current posting.

Recommendations

1. There is high prevalence of psychological problems in the prison personnel and they (officers and others) should be educated about coping strategies to deal with job stress and help one-self and others. 2. Some Family Welfare Programmes should be started for promoting positive mental health measures and for minimizing stress. 3. Psychologists, Psychiatrists or Counselors should be posted in Prison Hospital for helping, identifying and minimizing stress in the force. 4. Prison officials need to be sensitized for identifying stress related problems in their Force and to try out different stress reduction techniques. 5. Liaison with State Hospitals for quick and timely referral of prison men at times of stress and to provide care for mental and physical health problems, needs to be actively promoted. 6. Simple screening methods should be introduced for early diagnosis of referral. 7. Mental health professionals should be made available at the State and District levels to develop regional strategies for promoting positive mental health attitudes in accordance with the National Mental Health Programme.

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