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The relationship between exercise and hopelessness in prison
Author(s) -
CASHIN A.,
POTTER E.,
BUTLER T.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1365-2850
pISSN - 1351-0126
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2007.01207.x
Subject(s) - prison , psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , medicine , criminology
This paper reports on the relationship between the levels of self‐reported physical exercise and mental well‐being (as measured using the Beck Hopelessness Scale) in a cohort of 914 prisoners within New South Wales, Australia. A significant inverse relationship between self‐reported exercise in minutes per week and hopelessness was identified. The need to include exercise as a factor in inmate health plans is discussed.