Development and interrater reliability of the UK Mental Health Triage Scale
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Natisha Sands; Robert Colgate; Roshani Prematunga; Stephen Elsom; Helen Haylor
- Source
- International Journal of Mental Health Nursing. 25:330-336
- Subject
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Intraclass correlation
Concordance
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Rating scale
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Observer Variation
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
business.industry
Mental Disorders
medicine.disease
Triage
Mental health
United Kingdom
Confidence interval
030227 psychiatry
Test (assessment)
Inter-rater reliability
Physical therapy
Female
Medical emergency
Pshychiatric Mental Health
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 1447-0349
1445-8330
Mental health triage scales are clinical tools used at point of entry to specialist mental health service to provide a systematic way of categorizing the urgency of clinical presentations, and determining an appropriate service response and an optimal timeframe for intervention. The aim of the present study was to test the interrater reliability of a mental health triage scale developed for use in UK mental health triage and crisis services. An interrater reliability study was undertaken. Triage clinicians from England and Wales (n = 66) used the UK Mental Health Triage Scale (UK MHTS) to rate the urgency of 21 validated mental health triage scenarios derived from real occasions of triage. Interrater reliability was calculated using Kendall's coefficient of concordance (w) and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) statistics. The average ICC was 0.997 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.996-0.999 (F (20, 1300) = 394.762, P