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. 2019 Nov 16;13:72. doi: 10.1186/s13033-019-0328-1

Table 2.

Stages of social network analysis.

Table adapted from [50]

Stage Processes and measures
1. Defined the network

i. Listed all organisations involved in the national mental health system based on previous research and document review

ii. Supplemented list with additional organisations identified through snowballing during interviews

2. Defined the relationships between organisations

iii. Displayed the list of organisations in a table

iv. During interviews, asked participants with knowledge of their organisation about the relationship between their organisation and other organisations

v. Two quantitative indicators were collected. Participants rated the frequency of contact and frequency of resource sharing over the preceding year

vi. Once all responses were received, scores from each organisation were combined into a single matrix for each key indicator

3. Analysed the structure of the system using UCINET to generate measures

Network metrics

    i. Density

    ii. Average degree

    iii. Average distance

Organisation metrics

   i. In-degree centrality

   ii. Betweenness