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Table 2 Mean size of social networks and their composition

From: Social networks of patients with psychosis: a systematic review

Study description

Network size (mean)

Network composition (%)a

No.

Authors’ name, year

Whole network

Friendship network

Kin

Friends

Non-kin

Other patients

MH and other professionals

Others social figures

1

Angermeyer and Klusmann, 1987 [55]

11.8

–

38.9

  

8

8.5

 

2

Becker et al., 1998 [47]

12.8

4.3

30

33

   

32b

3

Cohen and Sokolovsky, 1978 [31]

13.3

–

      

4

Cohen and Kochanowicz, 1989 [52]

7.7

–

46.6

 

32.5

 

20.9

 

5

Cohen et al., 1996 [64]

10

–

      

6

Dozier et al., 1987 [65]

16.3

–

      

7

Estroff et al., 1994 [48]

11.4

–

68.7

24.4

  

6.9

 

8

Famiyuwa and Olatokunbo, 1984 [43]

11.6

–

52

    

48c

9

Hamilton et al., 1989 [56]

12.9

–

48.1

 

52

   

10

Harley et al., 2012 [13]

–

1.6

      

11

Hernando et al., 2002 [58]

11.8

–

      

12

Horan et al., 2006 [54]

8.8

–

64

     

13

Kauranen et al., 2000 [50]

18.6

5

65.1

27

  

0.5

6.5d

14

Lipton et al., 1981 [45]

10.9

4.7

48.6

42.6

  

9.2

 

15

Meeks and Hammond, 2001 [57]

18.7

–

53

 

35

 

10

 

16

Pessoa Moreno Macedo et al., 2013 [49]

10.1

–

68.6

15.7

13.4

  

2.3

17

Pernice-Duca, 2008 [44]

4.6

1

34.5

21.6

 

11.6

32.3

 

18

Sawicka et al., 2013 [46]

6.0

–

      

19

Seidmann et al., 1987 [53]

44.9

–

      

20

Sibitz et al., 2010 [59]

–

4.6

      

21

Thorup et al., 2007 [51]

–

3.6

      

22

Tolsdorf, 1976 [66]

29.8

–

61.1

     

23

Van Humbeeck et al., 2000, Belgium [67]

11.6

–

      
  1. aFor some studies, we do not have information on all the types of contacts and the percentages do not add up to 100 %. We reported them in an effort to provide as much information as possible
  2. bOther contacts: nonfriends such as acquaintances, shopkeepers, health or social or other service staff
  3. c,dCo-workers