A systematic review of co-responder models of police mental health ‘street’ triage
<strong>Background</strong> Police mental health street triage is an increasingly common intervention when dealing with police incidents in which there is a suspected mental health component. We conducted a systematic review of street triage interventions with three aims. First, to ident...
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| author | Puntis, S Perfect, D Kirubarajan, A Bolton, S Davies, F Hayes, A Harriss, E Molodynski, A |
| author_facet | Puntis, S Perfect, D Kirubarajan, A Bolton, S Davies, F Hayes, A Harriss, E Molodynski, A |
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| description | <strong>Background</strong> Police mental health street triage is an increasingly common intervention when dealing with police incidents in which there is a suspected mental health component. We conducted a systematic review of street triage interventions with three aims. First, to identify papers reporting on models of co-response police mental health street triage. Second, to identify the characteristics of service users who come in to contact with these triage services. Third, to evaluate the effectiveness of co-response triage services. <strong>Methods</strong> We conducted a systematic review. We searched the following databases: Ovid MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, EBSCO CINAHL, Scopus, Thompson Reuters Web of Science Core Collection, The Cochrane Library, ProQuest National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, EThoS, and OpenGrey. We searched reference and citation lists. We also searched for other grey literature through Google, screening the first 100 PDFs of each of our search terms. We performed a narrative synthesis of our results. <strong>Results</strong> Our search identified 11,553 studies. After screening, 26 were eligible. Over two-thirds (69%) had been published within the last 3 years. We did not identify any randomised control trials. Results indicated that street triage might reduce the number of people taken to a place of safety under S136 of the Mental Health Act where that power exists, or reduce the use of police custody in other jurisdictions. <strong>Conclusions</strong> There remains a lack of evidence to evaluate the effectiveness of street triage and the characteristics, experience, and outcomes of service users. There is also wide variation in the implementation of the co-response model, with differences in hours of operation, staffing, and incident response. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:806833cd-8bc1-4810-8c94-5394630fcbfe2022-03-26T21:23:07ZA systematic review of co-responder models of police mental health ‘street’ triageJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:806833cd-8bc1-4810-8c94-5394630fcbfeSymplectic Elements at OxfordBioMed Central2018Puntis, SPerfect, DKirubarajan, ABolton, SDavies, FHayes, AHarriss, EMolodynski, A<strong>Background</strong> Police mental health street triage is an increasingly common intervention when dealing with police incidents in which there is a suspected mental health component. We conducted a systematic review of street triage interventions with three aims. First, to identify papers reporting on models of co-response police mental health street triage. Second, to identify the characteristics of service users who come in to contact with these triage services. Third, to evaluate the effectiveness of co-response triage services. <strong>Methods</strong> We conducted a systematic review. We searched the following databases: Ovid MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, EBSCO CINAHL, Scopus, Thompson Reuters Web of Science Core Collection, The Cochrane Library, ProQuest National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, EThoS, and OpenGrey. We searched reference and citation lists. We also searched for other grey literature through Google, screening the first 100 PDFs of each of our search terms. We performed a narrative synthesis of our results. <strong>Results</strong> Our search identified 11,553 studies. After screening, 26 were eligible. Over two-thirds (69%) had been published within the last 3 years. We did not identify any randomised control trials. Results indicated that street triage might reduce the number of people taken to a place of safety under S136 of the Mental Health Act where that power exists, or reduce the use of police custody in other jurisdictions. <strong>Conclusions</strong> There remains a lack of evidence to evaluate the effectiveness of street triage and the characteristics, experience, and outcomes of service users. There is also wide variation in the implementation of the co-response model, with differences in hours of operation, staffing, and incident response. |
| spellingShingle | Puntis, S Perfect, D Kirubarajan, A Bolton, S Davies, F Hayes, A Harriss, E Molodynski, A A systematic review of co-responder models of police mental health ‘street’ triage |
| title | A systematic review of co-responder models of police mental health ‘street’ triage |
| title_full | A systematic review of co-responder models of police mental health ‘street’ triage |
| title_fullStr | A systematic review of co-responder models of police mental health ‘street’ triage |
| title_full_unstemmed | A systematic review of co-responder models of police mental health ‘street’ triage |
| title_short | A systematic review of co-responder models of police mental health ‘street’ triage |
| title_sort | systematic review of co responder models of police mental health street triage |
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