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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 23.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Community Psychol. 2010 Sep;46(0):1–18. doi: 10.1007/s10464-010-9329-6

Table 4.

Social support coding system

Categories and codes
  1. Barriers to asbestos/ARD-related support
    • 1
      Others' ARD-related death or illness.
    • 2
      Geography.
    • 3
      Physical limits on social activities.
    • 4
      Emotional limits on providing support.
    • 5
      Physical limits potentially limiting ability to provide social support.
    • 6
      Stigma.
    • 7
      Self-sufficiency, independence values.
    • 8
      Anxiety about availability of future support.
    • 9
      Lack of awareness of people with ARD or their needs for support.
    • 10
      Costs (negative impact) of receiving asbestos/ARD-related social support.
    • 11
      Other barriers to asbestos/ARD-related support.
  2. Asbestos/ARD-related support failures
    • 12
      General failure to provide support [multiple types, type not specified].
    • 13
      Others' failure to provide emotional support.
    • 14
      Others' failure to provide informational support.
    • 15
      Others' failure to provide instrumental support.
    • 16
      Others' failure to provide spiritual support.
    • 17
      Institutional failure to provide support.
    • 18
      Other failure to provide ARD-related support.
  3. Non-asbestos/ARD-related support
    • 19
      Need for support: General.
    • 20
      Need for support: Emotional.
    • 21
      Need for support: Informational.
    • 22
      Need for support: Instrumental.
    • 23
      Need for support: Spiritual.
    • 24
      Community is supportive in general.
    • 25
      Speaker provided support: General.
    • 26
      Speaker provided support: Emotional.
    • 27
      Speaker provided support: Informational.
    • 28
      Speaker provided support: Instrumental.
    • 29
      Speaker provided support: Spiritual.
    • 30
      General willingness/desire to provide support.
    • 31
      Support: General [type not specified or multiple types].
    • 32
      Support: Emotional.
    • 33
      Support: Informational.
    • 34
      Support: Instrumental.
    • 35
      Support: Spiritual.
    • 36
      Support: Institutional.
    • 37
      Self-help: Non-Asbestos/ARD-related, general.
    • 38
      Other Non-Asbestos/ARD-related support.
  4. Asbestos/ARD-Related Support
    • 39
      Need for asbestos/ARD-related support: General.
    • 40
      Need for asbestos/ARD-related support: Emotional.
    • 41
      Need for asbestos/ARD-related support: Informational.
    • 42
      Need for asbestos/ARD-related support: Instrumental.
    • 43
      Need for asbestos/ARD-related support: Spiritual.
    • 44
      Need for asbestos/ARD-related support: Institutional.
    • 45
      Community in general provides asbestos/ARD-related support.
    • 46
      Speaker provided asbestos/ARD-related support: General.
    • 47
      Speaker provided asbestos/ARD-related support: Emotional.
    • 48
      Speaker provided asbestos/ARD-related support: Informational.
    • 49
      Speaker provided asbestos/ARD-related support: Instrumental.
    • 50
      Speaker provided asbestos/ARD-related support: Spiritual.
    • 51
      Willingness/desire to provide asbestos/ARD-related support.
    • 52
      Observed asbestos/ARD-related support: General.
    • 53
      Observed asbestos/ARD-related support: Emotional.
    • 54
      Observed asbestos/ARD-related support: Informational.
    • 55
      Observed asbestos/ARD-related support: Instrumental.
    • 56
      Observed asbestos/ARD-related support: Spiritual.
    • 57
      Observed asbestos/ARD-related support: Institutional.
    • 58
      Asbestos/ARD-related self-help by person.
    • 59
      Other Asbestos/ARD-related social support.
  5. Costs and Benefits of Support
    • 60
      Costs/difficulties of providing support in general (hypothetical, general, or non-asbestos/ARD-related).
    • 61
      Costs/difficulties of providing asbestos/ARD-related support: Personal (family, friends, advocates).
    • 62
      Costs/difficulties of providing asbestos/ARD-related support: Professional (health care workers).
    • 63
      Benefits of providing support in general.
    • 64
      Benefits of providing asbestos/ARD-related support.
    • 65
      Benefits of receiving support in general. [abstract]
    • 66
      Benefits of receiving asbestos/ARD-related support. [abstract]
    • 67
      Lack of costs of providing or receiving support.
    • 68
      Other costs of providing support.
  6. Definitions of Support
    • 69
      Definitions of support or definitional examples (helpful and unhelpful support).
  7. Other
    • 70
      Other social support.