Mental health of male offenders and youths with conduct problems
Session
Medicine and Nursing
Description
Background Mental health problems among youth are frequent especially in offenders and as such is very important to identify as early as possible.
Objectives To estimate and compare level of some mental health problems between three group of male youths: juvenile offenders in correctional centre, adolescents with conduct problems and university students .
Method It is cross-sectional quantitative study. The sample consisted ofthree male groups : 41offenders placed in one Correctional Centre (Mage = 18.02; SD = 2.20); 41 male students of secondary school with conduct problems (Mage = 16.97; SD = .61) and 42 male university students randomly selected (Mage = 19.7; SD = 1.77). They filled questionaire MAYSI–2 (Grisso & Barnum, 2001).Data processing was done with SPSS 21.0 and Microsoft Excel 2013.
Results Juvenile offenders in correctional centre scored significantly higher than other two groups of youth in Alcohol/Substance abuse subscale (p=.001), Suicidal ideation subscale (p=.048) and Traumatic stress subscale (p=.003) based on Kruskal-Wallis Test. Juvenile offenders in correctional centre scored higher but nonsignificantly in Angry/Irritabile and Depression/Anxyous subscales. Students of secondary school with conduct problems scored higher but nonsignificantly in Thought disturbance and Somatic subscales.
Conclusion Male juvenile offenders have significantly more mental heath difficulties. Mental health needs of youths in Kosovo (especially juvenile offenders) seems to benumerous and is important to be addressed properly.
Keywords:
mental health problems, youth, offenders, Kosovo
Session Chair
Fitim Alidema
Session Co-Chair
Salih Krasniqi
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-550-19-2
Location
Pristina, Kosovo
Start Date
26-10-2019 1:30 PM
End Date
26-10-2019 3:00 PM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2019.300
Recommended Citation
Halilaj, Gani, "Mental health of male offenders and youths with conduct problems" (2019). UBT International Conference. 300.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2019/events/300
Mental health of male offenders and youths with conduct problems
Pristina, Kosovo
Background Mental health problems among youth are frequent especially in offenders and as such is very important to identify as early as possible.
Objectives To estimate and compare level of some mental health problems between three group of male youths: juvenile offenders in correctional centre, adolescents with conduct problems and university students .
Method It is cross-sectional quantitative study. The sample consisted ofthree male groups : 41offenders placed in one Correctional Centre (Mage = 18.02; SD = 2.20); 41 male students of secondary school with conduct problems (Mage = 16.97; SD = .61) and 42 male university students randomly selected (Mage = 19.7; SD = 1.77). They filled questionaire MAYSI–2 (Grisso & Barnum, 2001).Data processing was done with SPSS 21.0 and Microsoft Excel 2013.
Results Juvenile offenders in correctional centre scored significantly higher than other two groups of youth in Alcohol/Substance abuse subscale (p=.001), Suicidal ideation subscale (p=.048) and Traumatic stress subscale (p=.003) based on Kruskal-Wallis Test. Juvenile offenders in correctional centre scored higher but nonsignificantly in Angry/Irritabile and Depression/Anxyous subscales. Students of secondary school with conduct problems scored higher but nonsignificantly in Thought disturbance and Somatic subscales.
Conclusion Male juvenile offenders have significantly more mental heath difficulties. Mental health needs of youths in Kosovo (especially juvenile offenders) seems to benumerous and is important to be addressed properly.