title: [Self-aggressive behavior in prisons].
abstract: In the literature devoted to the phenomenon of self-harm among engaged imprisonment, meets the different views the causes of such behavior and the risk of their occurrence. Views prevail, according to which aggression is considered common phenomenon among people in prisons. Social isolation and lack of close intimate relationships may foster this type of behavior. The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence of self-aggressive behavior among prisoners.
  
  
  METHODS
  We analyzed 133 cases of self-harm and 151 cases of suicide made a fatal persons deprived of their liberty.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among those detained in prisons showing self-aggressive behavior are high rates of mental dysfunction.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In carrying out self-aggressive states embedded high rates of mental dysfunction, mainly disorders Personality and alcohol dependence and/or psychoactive substances. Among those who made a successful suicide bombing found a high rate of personality disorders and disorders depressive. Causes and determinants of self-harm and suicides by persons residing in institutions prisons are in many respects similar. Those embedded in prisons having mental disorders pose a high risk of autoimmunity, and therefore require special supervision and care of individual psycho-psychological one.
authors.affiliation: Katedra Pielegniarstwa Klinicznego, Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Łodzi.
authors.forename: Zbigniew
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Tokarski
authors.forename: Antoni
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Florkowski
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Talarowska
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wierzbiński
authors.forename: Iwona
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Łopacińska
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zboralski
authors.forename: Sławomir
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Szubert
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000453:epidemiology; D015984:Causality; D015897:Comorbidity; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011330:Prisons / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012307:Risk Factors; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D013405:Suicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data