Evaluación de indicadores psiquiátricos por etapas del Régimen Cerrado Especial en un Penal de Lima, 2021
Year: 2023
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The general objective of this study was to calculate and evaluate the global indices of psychological distress in a population of prisoners of the Special Closed Regime in a Prison in the city of Lima, Peru in 2021. This is a study that is based on the positivist paradigm. , with a quantitative, basic, descriptive, evaluative approach. The instrument used was the SCL-90-R symptom inventory by L. Derogatis. Among the main conclusions are that of the total number of people evaluated regarding the degree of psychopathological symptoms, the highest percentage presented a mild degree with 62.8%, followed by a moderate degree with 35.7%, presence of risk 0.8% and severe symptomatological degree 0.8%. ; It is important to specify that in general a greater predominance of the mild grade was found, which is markedly normal symptomatology, which would also indicate the absence of alterations. Regarding the hypothesis raised in the study, it can be stated that the degree of psychopathological symptoms manifested by the participants is mild, since the p-value found was equal to 0.008/2 = 0.004 < 0.01, for which Ho was rejected. at a significant level of 1%.
Source: World Health Journal
DOI: 10.47422/whj.v4i1.32
Institutions: National University of San Marcos, Universidad César Vallejo
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4391297433