Abstract:
This study sought to find out the health status of inmates regarding their physical and psychological health. It also determined the level of health practices of inmates regarding their physical and psychological health.
Factors such as age, length of detention, ethnicity, and educational attainment were used to determine whether they have significant influences on the level of physical and psychological health of inmates.
There were a total of twenty five (25) respondents from Benguet Provincial Jail.
The descriptive survey design was employed to gather data. Using checklist questionnaire as the primary tool, data was collected, tabulated, statistically analyzed, and interpreted with the use of the F-test in the Analysis of Variance and t-test.
The Analysis of Variance was used to determine the relationship between the health status of inmates and their age, ethnicity and educational attainment.
The t-test was used to determine the inmates’ health status, its difference between the length of detention and the level to which the inmates do the health practices.
The findings showed that the physical and psychological health status of inmates at Benguet Provincial Jail is at moderate status which is defined as equivalent to experiencing the problems sometimes. The physical and psychological health status of inmates is significantly affected by age, length of detention, ethnicity, and educational attainment. Inmates at Benguet Provincial Jail sometimes practice the specified health practices as remedies to the specified health problems.
