Table 1.
Demographic information of staff trained
| Prison A (n=175) | Prison B (n=79) | Prison C (n=18) | Prison D (n=8) | Total (n=280) | |
| Time working in the prison service (years) | |||||
| N | 172 | 78 | 18 | 7 | 275 |
| Mean (SD) | 8.5 (8.93) | 13.0 (9.04) | 12.9 (8.45) | 12.1 (9.91) | 10.1 (9.16) |
| Median (range) | 6.0 (0.0–36.0) | 11.8 (0.1–35.3) | 12.5 (0.5–25.0) | 10.5 (1.3–29.2) | 8.0 (0.0–36.0) |
| Time working in this prison (years) | |||||
| N | 172 | 78 | 18 | 7 | 275 |
| Mean (SD) | 6.2 (7.48) | 11.2 (8.15) | 7.9 (7.61) | 9.0 (7.24) | 7.8 (7.96) |
| Median (range) | 3.3 (0.0–31.0) | 10.9 (0.1–35.3) | 4.5 (0.3–24.3) | 7.9 (1.1–20.8) | 5.5 (0.0–35.3) |
| Since working here have you encountered an incident of self-harm? | |||||
| Yes | 119 (68.0%) | 68 (86.1%) | 18 (100.0%) | 8 (100.0%) | 213 (76.1%) |
| No | 52 (29.7%) | 11 (13.9%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 63 (22.5%) |
| Missing | 4 (2.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 4 (1.4%) |
| Most recent self-harm incident? | |||||
| Within the past 7 days | 44 (37.0%) | 28 (41.2%) | 7 (38.9%) | 3 (37.5%) | 82 (38.5%) |
| Within the past month | 24 (20.2%) | 17 (25.0%) | 4 (22.2%) | 0 (0.0%) | 45 (21.1%) |
| Two months or more | 20 (16.8%) | 8 (11.8%) | 2 (11.1%) | 1 (12.5%) | 31 (14.6%) |
| Missing | 31 (26.1%) | 15 (22.1%) | 5 (27.8%) | 4 (50.0%) | 55 (25.8%) |
| Type of incident? | |||||
| Self-poisoning | 10 (8.4%) | 1 (1.5%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (12.5%) | 12 (5.6%) |
| Self-injury | 94 (79.0%) | 61 (89.7%) | 16 (88.9%) | 6 (75.0%) | 177 (83.1%) |
| Mixed self-poisoning and self-injury | 7 (5.9%) | 4 (5.9%) | 2 (11.1%) | 1 (12.5%) | 14 (6.6%) |
| Suicide | 7 (5.9%) | 2 (2.9%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 9 (4.2%) |
| Missing | 1 (0.8%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (0.5%) |
| Attended self-harm training? | |||||
| Yes | 74 (42.3%) | 48 (60.8%) | 13 (72.2%) | 3 (37.5%) | 138 (49.3%) |
| No | 96 (54.9%) | 30 (38.0%) | 3 (16.7%) | 5 (62.5%) | 134 (47.9%) |
| Cannot recall | 4 (2.3%) | 1 (1.3%) | 2 (11.1%) | 0 (0.0%) | 7 (2.5%) |
| Missing | 1 (0.6%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (0.4%) |
| Time since self-harm training? | |||||
| N | 66 | 45 | 13 | 3 | 127 |
| Mean (SD) | 30.5 (38.22) | 20.4 (27.32) | 41.7 (53.84) | 19.0 (20.42) | 27.8 (36.64) |
| Median (range) | 12.0 (0.0–180.0) | 12.0 (1.0–120.0) | 12.0 (1.0–168.0) | 12.0 (3.0–42.0) | 12.0 (0.0–180.0) |
| Who provided this training? | |||||
| Prison service | 59 (79.7%) | 42 (87.5%) | 8 (61.5%) | 3 (100.0%) | 112 (81.2%) |
| NHS | 3 (4.1%) | 0 (0.0%) | 2 (15.4%) | 0 (0.0%) | 5 (3.6%) |
| Nurse training | 2 (2.7%) | 1 (2.1%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 3 (2.2%) |
| Other including University | 3 (4.1%) | 2 (4.2%) | 1 (7.7%) | 0 (0.0%) | 6 (4.3%) |
| Missing | 7 (9.5%) | 3 (6.3%) | 2 (15.4%) | 0 (0.0%) | 12 (8.7%) |
| Length of training? | |||||
| 1 hour | 19 (25.7%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (7.7%) | 0 (0.0%) | 20 (14.5%) |
| 2 hours | 9 (12.2%) | 4 (8.3%) | 1 (7.7%) | 1 (33.3%) | 15 (10.9%) |
| Half day | 16 (21.6%) | 14 (29.2%) | 1 (7.7%) | 1 (33.3%) | 32 (23.2%) |
| Full day | 13 (17.6%) | 18 (37.5%) | 7 (53.8%) | 1 (33.3%) | 39 (28.3%) |
| More than 1 day | 7 (9.5%) | 4 (8.3%) | 3 (23.1%) | 0 (0.0%) | 14 (10.1%) |
| Missing | 10 (13.5%) | 8 (16.7%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 18 (13.0%) |