Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Australian Mental Health Triage Scale in the emergency department: The case of Turkey

Ayşe Büyükbayram Arslan; Esra Engin; Selahattin Kıyan

doi:10.1111/ppc.13110

Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Australian Mental Health Triage Scale in the emergency department: The case of Turkey

Perspect Psychiatr Care. 2022 Oct;58(4):2697-2706. doi: 10.1111/ppc.13110. Epub 2022 May 16.

Authors

Ayşe Büyükbayram Arslan¹, Esra Engin², Selahattin Kıyan³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Mental Health and Psychiatry Nursing, Health Science of Faculty, Izmir Kâtip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey.
² Department of Mental Health and Psychiatry Nursing, Nursing Faculty, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.

PMID: 35578109
DOI: 10.1111/ppc.13110

Abstract

Purpose: To examine the effectiveness of the Australian Mental Health Triage Scale(AMHTS) in Turkey.

Design and methods: The study is a methodological and semiexperimental study. It was carried out with 30 emergency service nurses and 378 psychiatric patients at a university hospital. The validity and reliability of the AMHTS were examined.

Findings: The reliability of the AMHTS is good level (Cohen's κ = 0.631, p < 0.05). It is valid for making the patients' waiting time in triage more efficient(p < 0.05), and increases the nurses' ability to determine the treatment acuity.

Practice implications: It is an important tool that affects the quality of emergency psychiatric care for nurses working in the emergency departments of general hospitals.

Keywords: emergency service; mental health; triage scale.

MeSH terms

Australia
Emergency Service, Hospital
Humans
Mental Health*
Reproducibility of Results
Triage*
Turkey