Table 2

Data items extracted

All papers
  • Year published

  • Year data collected

  • Location and country

  • Population

  • Sample size

  • Sociodemographic characteristics (age, sex/gender, ethnicity, other)

  • Aim and extent of help-seeking (implicit or explicit)

Social capital papers
  • Extent of focus on social capital (explicit or incidental)

  • Level of social capital discussed (micro, meso, macro)

  • Types of social capital explored (focusing on bonding, bridging and linking)

  • Theoretical orientation of the paper

  • Summary of any theoretical argument relating social capital to help-seeking

  • Results relevant to help-seeking

SNA papers
  • Type of method (quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods)

  • Social network type (eg, egocentric network/personal network, whole network)

  • Network features studied (eg, centrality, homophily)

  • Data collection and analysis methods

  • Findings related to help-seeking or the utility of SNA

  • SNA, social network analysis.