Table 2.

Sociodemographic and criminal characteristics of male and female prisoners with and without the comorbid triad of mental disorders: severe mental illnesses (SMIs), personality disorders (PDs) and substance use disorder (SUD).

Variable	Total					Male					Female
	Without triad(n = 289)		With triad(n = 138)		p	Without triad(n = 124)		With triad(n = 105)		p	Without triad(n = 165)		With triad(n = 33)		p
	n	%	n	%		n	%	n	%		n	%	n	%
Age, mean (SD)a	34.0	(12.1)	26.6	(7.9)	***	33.0	(13.5)	26.4	(7.83)	***	34.7	(11.1)	27.2	(8.2)	***
Educational level
Primary or lower	133	46.0	71	51.5		42	33.9	44	41.9		91	55.1	27	81.8
Secondary or higher	156	54.0	67	48.5		82	66.1	61	58.1		74	44.9	6	18.2	**
Employment status
Yes	230	79.6	101	73.2		112	90.3	83	79.0		118	71.5	18	54.6
No	59	20.4	37	26.8		12	9.7	22	21.0	*	47	28.5	15	45.5
Relationship status
Living alone	147	50.9	85	61.6		61	49.2	65	61.9		86	52.1	20	60.6
Living with partner	142	49.1	53	38.4	*	63	50.8	40	38.1		79	47.9	13	39.4
Offense categoryb
Property	66	22.8	40	29.0		36	29.0	29	27.6		30	18.2	11	33.3
Violence	68	23.5	59	42.8	***	46	37.1	48	45.7		22	13.3	11	33.3	**
Drug	128	44.3	22	15.9	***	18	14.5	13	12.4		110	66.7	9	27.3	***
Firearm	5	1.7	4	2.9		3	2.4	4	3.8		2	1.21	0	0.0
Sexual	9	3.1	5	3.6		9	7.3	5	4.8		0	0.0	0	0.0
Previous imprisonment
No	162	56.1	60	43.5		81	65.3	52	49.5		81	49.1	8	24.2
Yes	127	43.9	78	56.5	*	43	34.7	53	50.5	*	84	50.9	25	75.8	**
Previous psychiatric hospitalization
No	272	94.1	118	85.5		119	96.0	91	86.7		153	92.7	27	81.8
Yes	17	5.9	20	14.5	**	5	4.0	14	13.3	*	12	7.3	6	19.2	*

*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001.

^aVariable encounters 10 missing cases.

^bCategories are not mutually exclusive.