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Table 4 Weighted Ranking of Top Five Areas for Capacity Building Supports

From: Supporting community overdose response planning in Ontario, Canada: Findings from a situational assessment

Qualitative Themes

Survey Support Area

Unweighted Rank

(simple count rating)

Weighted Rank

(weighted point rating)

  

Count

Ranking

Sum

Ranking

Evidence and practice

Evidence use and application

27

1

84

1

Partnership, collaboration, and engagement

Community engagement

21

2

61

3

Implementation and operational factors

Public awareness and education

19

3

-

-

Implementation and operational factors

Program implementation

18

4

64

2

Evidence and practice

Knowledge and skill development

16

5

49

4

Data and information

Evaluation capacity

15

-

-

-

Partnership, collaboration, and engagement

Partnership and collaboration

15

-

47

5

Data and information

Data collection

14

-

-

-

Data and information

Data analysis and interpretation

10

-

-

-

  1. The areas of capacity building supports were informed by the preliminary themes from interview and focus group data. To calculate the weighted rank, the following rank value was assigned: 1 = 5, 2 = 4, 3 = 3, 4 = 2, 5 = 1