TY - JOUR
KW - Agricultural Workers' Diseases/epidemiology/therapy
KW - Attitude of Health Personnel
KW - Community Mental Health Services/organization & administration
KW - Community Networks/organization & administration
KW - Cooperative Behavior
KW - Data Interpretation, Statistical
KW - Health Services Accessibility
KW - Health Services Research
KW - Humans
KW - Interinstitutional Relations
KW - Mental Disorders/epidemiology/therapy
KW - Needs Assessment/organization & administration
KW - New South Wales/epidemiology
KW - Pilot Projects
KW - Primary Health Care/organization & administration
KW - Professional Role
KW - Program Evaluation
KW - Questionnaires
KW - Referral and Consultation/organization & administration
KW - Research Design
KW - Rural Health Services/organization & administration
KW - Social Support
KW - Total Quality Management/organization & administration
KW - Workload/statistics & numerical data
AU - J. Fuller
AU - B. Kelly
AU - G. Sartore
AU - L. Fragar
AU - A. Tonna
AU - G. Pollard
AU - T. Hazell
A1 - 
AB - OBJECTIVE: The primary mental health care needs of farmers require that service innovations incorporate rural support workers into a local service network. This component of the FarmLink pilot sought to develop a social network analysis method that would describe local mental health-related human service networks. The purpose is to inform improvements in this network and to serve as a baseline against which such improvements can be evaluated. DESIGN: A pilot survey of rural human service providers who deal with mental health-related issues among farmers about their self-reported links between each other. SETTING: Service delivery agencies associated with a small rural town in New South Wales. PARTICIPANTS: Twenty-five agents from a range of human services involved in rural human support services to farmers, such as from agricultural and drought support, welfare, primary health care and education. INTERVENTION: Telephone interview prior to the conduct of a Mental Health First Aid seminar and a Farmers Mental Health and Wellbeing workshop. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Agent self-reported service links over the past three months for information exchange, client referrals and working together in relation to helping farmers for mental health, emotional health or stress-related problems. Analysis trialled on the 'made referrals' link shows the network influence, prominence and intermediary status of the rural financial counsellor. CONCLUSIONS: Within the limitations of recalled self-report data, social network analysis provides a useful network description for informing and evaluating service network improvements.
BT - The Australian Journal of Rural Health
C5 - HIT & Telehealth
CP - 2
CY - Australia
DO - 10.1111/j.1440-1584.2007.00861.x
IS - 2
JF - The Australian Journal of Rural Health
N2 - OBJECTIVE: The primary mental health care needs of farmers require that service innovations incorporate rural support workers into a local service network. This component of the FarmLink pilot sought to develop a social network analysis method that would describe local mental health-related human service networks. The purpose is to inform improvements in this network and to serve as a baseline against which such improvements can be evaluated. DESIGN: A pilot survey of rural human service providers who deal with mental health-related issues among farmers about their self-reported links between each other. SETTING: Service delivery agencies associated with a small rural town in New South Wales. PARTICIPANTS: Twenty-five agents from a range of human services involved in rural human support services to farmers, such as from agricultural and drought support, welfare, primary health care and education. INTERVENTION: Telephone interview prior to the conduct of a Mental Health First Aid seminar and a Farmers Mental Health and Wellbeing workshop. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Agent self-reported service links over the past three months for information exchange, client referrals and working together in relation to helping farmers for mental health, emotional health or stress-related problems. Analysis trialled on the 'made referrals' link shows the network influence, prominence and intermediary status of the rural financial counsellor. CONCLUSIONS: Within the limitations of recalled self-report data, social network analysis provides a useful network description for informing and evaluating service network improvements.
PP - Australia
PY - 2007
SN - 1038-5282; 1038-5282
SP - 99
EP - 106
EP - 
T1 - Use of social network analysis to describe service links for farmers' mental health
T2 - The Australian Journal of Rural Health
TI - Use of social network analysis to describe service links for farmers' mental health
U1 - HIT & Telehealth
U2 - 17441818
U3 - 10.1111/j.1440-1584.2007.00861.x
VL - 15
VO - 1038-5282; 1038-5282
Y1 - 2007
ER -