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Table 3 Shows prisoners related mental health problem of the respondents among prisoners imprisoned in prisons of Northwest Amhara, 2015

From: Anxiety and associated factors among prisoners in North West of Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia

Explanatory variables

Frequency (%)

Had previous psychiatric problem

 

 Yes

92(14.2)

 No

557(85.8)

Family history of mental illness

 

 Yes

84(12.9)

 No

565(87.1)

Did you use chat, shisha or cigarette smoking habit

 

 Yes

118(18.2)

 No

531(81.8)

Current cigarette smoking habit

 

 Yes

31(4.8)

 No

618(95.2)

After you released from the prison is there any impossibilities that make you not run the life you had been before

 Yes

213(32.8)

 No

436(67.2)

Do you have a hope that you could get excuse

 

 Yes

414(63.8)

 No

235(36.2)

Social support

 

 Yes

420(64.7)

 No

229(35.3)