Table 2 Stages of social network analysis.
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 |