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All women filled out the Mind2Care and the seven additional psychiatric triage items independently.
Additional psychiatric triage items were suggested by clinicians who screened more than 2300 pregnant women for mental disorders.
The proportion of characteristics, psychiatric and psychosocial triage items according to the presence of mental disorders were examined for comparative reasons only.
Table 2 shows the characteristics and triage items for the total group of women, and separately for women with and women without a current mental disorder.
Mind2Care includes a short set of currently used psychiatric triage items (previous hospital admission of the woman for mental disorder, previous hospital admission of first-degree relative for mental disorder, previous psychotropic medication use).
For a brief triage and a subsequent referral to psychiatric care or provision of support for women with mental disorders during pregnancy, the implementation of a comprehensive set of at least five psychiatric triage items is warranted.
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The research team triaged items to eliminate obviously ambiguous or purely repetitive questions.
We found that the eleven DUNDRUM-1 triage security items perform well as a scale, with good inter-rater reliability and good internal consistency.
DUNDRUM-1 triage security items are not intended as a risk assessment instrument; rather they assess need for therapeutic security and are complementary to risk assessment instruments [ 57].
We showed that by dichotomizing DUNDRUM-1 Triage Security item 1 to compare those who scored '4' against those who scored '3' or less, with length of stay as the dependent variable, the effect size for difference in cross-sectional length of stay was Cohen's d = 0.536 and this generated a 72.8%% chance of detecting a statistically significant difference at 5%% level in a sample of 95 in-patients.
The total scores on the DUNDRUM-1 triage security 11-item scale differed significantly according to the level of security to which the person was admitted (ANOVA F = 75.2, df = 2, p < 0.001) and as before each group differed significantly from the other two as assessed by the Bonferroni test for post hoc differences.
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