Results of the Brief Jail Mental Health Screen Across Repeated Jail Bookings.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The Brief Jail Mental Health Screen (BJMHS) is widely used at intake in county jails to identify detainees who may have serious mental illness and who should be referred for further mental health evaluation. The BJMHS may be administered multiple times across repeated jail bookings; however, the extent to which results may change over time is unclear. To that end, the authors examined the odds of screening positive on the BJMHS across repeated jail bookings.

Methods

Data were drawn from the administrative and medical records of a large, urban county jail that used the BJMHS at jail booking. The study sample comprised BJMHS results for the 12,531 jail detainees who were booked at least twice during the 3.5-year period (N=41,965 bookings). Multilevel logistic modelin

SUBMITTER: Zottola SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6857168 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature