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Table 2 Description of co-response police mental health triage model and characteristics of included articles

From: A systematic review of co-responder models of police mental health ‘street’ triage

Author

Year

Country

Study Design

Sample size

Follow-up (months)

Model Type

Times of Operation

Days of operation

Vehicle

Type of response

Boscarato et al.

2014

Australia

Qualitative

11

None

Not reported

Not reported

Not reported

Not reported

Not reported

Huppert & Griffiths

2015

Australia

Implementation

235

None

Ride-along model

15.00–23.00

7 days a week

Marked police car

Second response

Lee et al. and Evangelista et al.1

2015 & 2016

Australia

Mixed-methods

Quantitative: 296

Survey: 77

Qualitative: 12

6

Ride-along model

14.00–22.00

7 days a week7

Marked police car

Second response

Mckenna et al.

2015

Australia

Qualitative

17

None

Ride-along model

15.00–23.00

7 days a week

Marked police car7

Second response

Furness et al.

2017

Australia

Cross-sectional semi structured interview

43

None

Ride-along model

15.00–23.00

7 days a week

Marked police car7

Second response

Kisely et al.

2010

Canada

Mixed-methods

Quantitative: 2828

Qualitative: 84

24

Telephone support with non-uniformed police and clinician call-out if necessary

00.00–00.00

7 days a week

Ambulance & unmarked police car7

Second response

Kirst et al.

2015

Canada

Qualitative

54

None

Ride-along model

12 h7

7 days a week7

Marked police car

Second response

Fahim et al.

2016

Canada

Mixed-methods

Not reported

None

Ride-along model

Not reported

Not reported

Not reported

First response

Lamana et al.

2018

Canada

Mixed methods

See footnote4

None

Ride along model

12 h7

7 days a week7

Marked police car

Second response

Dyer et al.

2015

UK

Mixed-methods

Quantitative: 572

Qualitative: 16

None

Co-response nurses based at police station. Phone response. Secondary ride-along response

12.00–00.00

7 days a week

Unmarked car7

Both7

Heslin et al. & Heslin et al. 2

2015 & 2016

UK

Before and after & Health economics

55

12

Ride-along model

16.30–00.00 & 09.00–00.00

Wed - Fri & Sat - Sun

Unmarked police car

Both

Horspool et al.

2016

UK

Qualitative

15

None

1) Ride-along model. 2) Ride-along with telephone support

Varied

Varied

Not reported

Not reported

Jenkins

2016

UK

Before and after

N/a5

6

1) Ride-along model 2) Telephone support

1.) 14.00–00.00 2). 8.00–22.00

7 days a week

Marked car7

Both7

Keown et al.

2016

UK

Before and after

n/a6

None

Ride-along model

10.00–03.00

7 days a week

Unmarked car7

Both7

Lamb et al.

1995

USA

Retrospective case note review

101

6

Ride-along model

16 h a day (does not specify times)

7 days a week

Marked police car

Second response

Ligon & Thyrer

2000

USA

Cross sectional survey

83

None

Ride-along model

15.00–22.30

7 days a week

Marked police car

Both

Deane et al.

1999

USA

Survey

174

None

N/a Survey of MH provision

N/a Survey of MH provision

N/a Survey of MH provision

N/a Survey of MH provision

N/a Survey of MH provision

Scott

2000

USA

Mixed-methods

Quantitative: 131

Survey: 32

3

Ride-along model

15.00–22.30

7 days a week

Not reported

Both

Hails & Borum

2003

USA

Survey

135

None

N/a Survey of MH provision

N/a Survey of MH provision

N/a Survey of MH provision

N/a Survey of MH provision

N/a Survey of MH provision

Abbott

2011

USA

Survey

414

None

Ride-along model

16.00–00.00

Mon – Fri7

Marked police car

Both7

Iacoboni & Scott-Hayward

2015

USA

Process evaluation

33

None

Office-based with ride-along support

Not reported

Not reported

Marked police car

Second response

Lopez

2016

USA

Retrospective case note review

15,454

None

Office-based with ride-along support if necessary

Not reported

Not reported

Not reported

Not reported

Compton et al. & Compton et al.3

2017

USA

Qualitative & Feasibility study

Qualitative: 49

Feasibility: 199

0

Telephone support model

24 h a day

7 days a week

No car – police officer only

Second response

  1. 1These two articles are part of the same study
  2. 2These two articles are part of the same study
  3. 3These two articles are part of the same study
  4. 4This study used multiple datasets. It used two administrative datasets, the first n = 4607 investigated triage user characteristics, whilst the second compare outcomes from street triage incidents against police only incidence n = 18,969. The qualitative dataset n = 15
  5. 5This study investigated service-level outcomes and did not report number of street triage interventions
  6. 6This study investigated service-level outcomes and did not report number of street triage interventions, but did report rate of ST per 100,000 (138.7 per 100 k)
  7. 7We obtained this information from contacting study authors