Table 13.

Sociocultural domain

Theme 7: Social support structures
Sub-themes	Participant quotations
1: Individual (Self-acceptance to cope)	o “The first thing is to accept yourself, that is the first thing before you go out to the society, you have to accept and talk to yourself that “I have a sickness like this, I must accept it”- FGD 2
2: Family	o “…your friends and family ought to be with you through that thing that you’re facing because you might find that some families or some friends- they be with you just now, not throughout the whole process”, “you go to your family, family also counsels you, they guide you, things like that then, your friends also sit with you and comfort you while on your side…that’s how I think you can be okay”- FGD 2
3: Church	o “…with religion, obvious, they pray for you, you pray, you also have to have a believe…so, at churches, they pray for you according to you, like they pay for you, they will say “come, let’s pray, let’s pray for the sickness that you have to go down” at that time you also have faith that you will heal through prayers”- FGD 2 o “Prayer, you only use it when you’re going to do an operation that “Father God, please help the doctor so things can go well” …it’s how it will work”- FGD 3, 4, 6 o “But some churches don’t want that isn’t it…when you go to them, they don’t want these doctors’ things and what, they only want to pray for you”