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Predicting Mental Health Of Prisoners By Artificial Neural Network, Elahe Allahyari, Mozhgan Moshtagh

BioMedicine

Introduction: Maintaining and improving prisoners’ health and their rehabilitation can be effective steps towards eliminating health inequalities and approaching the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Accordingly, identifying protective factors and health barriers of this vulnerable group and changing the prison into an environment that can deliver health interventions tailored to the needs of inmates can provide the basis for attaining justice in health.

Purpose: This study builds on an artificial neural network model to determine the effect of demographic, psychological, criminological, and physical activity factors on prisoners’ general health.

Methods: The study detected the patterns between variables using a neural network …