Worldwide, incarcerated women are known to suffer adverse experiences that might increase the risk of suicide attempts during incarceration. The present investigation examines the prevalence of suicide attempts amongst incarcerated women in Spain and the factors associated with this. Between January and March of 2017 a total of 174 women, enrolled from two prisons in the southeast of Spain, completed anonymous self-report measures of demographic variables, penitentiary and sentence-related variables, mental distress (including depression, anxiety and stress), perceived social support, substance use (including alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, amphetamine, heroin and hallucinogens), prison victimization (property, verbal, physical and sexual victimization) and suicide attempts. Overall, 15.5 percent of women reported they had attempted suicide during their current incarceration. Compared with women who did not report suicide attempts, multivariate analysis showed that women reporting suicide attempts were more likely to report lower education levels, in-prison substance use, victimization and higher levels of mental distress. In order to prevent suicide amongst incarcerated women, victimization in all its forms, emotional distress and drug abuse in women with lower education levels, should be considered highly targetable variables.

在世界范围内，众所周知，被监禁的女性遭受的不利经历可能会增加监禁期间自杀未遂的风险。本调查调查了西班牙被监禁妇女自杀未遂的流行率以及与此相关的因素。2017 年 1 月至 3 月期间，共有 174 名来自西班牙东南部两所监狱的女性完成了对人口统计学变量、监狱和刑罚相关变量、精神困扰（包括抑郁、焦虑和压力）、感知到的社会支持、物质使用（包括酒精、大麻、可卡因、安非他明、海洛因和致幻剂）、监狱受害（财产、言语、身体和性受害）和自杀企图。总的来说，15。5% 的女性报告说她们在目前的监禁期间曾企图自杀。与未报告自杀未遂的女性相比，多变量分析表明，报告自杀未遂的女性更有可能报告较低的教育水平、监狱内物质使用、受害和更高程度的精神困扰。为了防止被监禁妇女的自杀，教育水平较低的妇女的各种形式的受害、情绪困扰和药物滥用，应被视为高度可瞄准的变量。