Table 2.

Main themes and subthemes related to the effects of early marriage.

S. No	Main themes	Subthemes	Codes
1.	Precipitators of early marriage	1.1 Marriage by abduction 1.2 Arranged marriage	Abduction, girl’s parents, house band’s parent, house bands friends, neighbor’s women in relationship, relatives
2.	Consequences of early marriage.	2.1 Emotional damage 2.2 Moral damage 2.3 Early marriage is a risk factor for maternal and child health 2.4 Early marriage is a major cause for girls to drop out of school. 2.5 Poverty 2.6 Gender-based violence and divorce 2.7 Lack of essential life skills	Hopelessness, feeling of sadness, feeling of deep sorrow, helplessness, cried, suicidal ideation and attempt, went to grave, loneliness, suspicion, self-hate, feeling of remorse, humiliation, self-loathing, worthlessness, low self-esteem, guilt feeling poor pregnancy outcome(abortion, miscarriage), prolonged labor, cesarean delivery, lower abdomen pain, unplanned pregnancy, child death, frequent child illness, fail to resume education, fail to achieve objective, left bind class mates, unemployment, fail to meet basic needs, economic dependency, low social status, no communication with friends, not visits her parents, not participate in decision making, insult due to not give birth, strict control, physical abuse, dissolution of marriage, frequent conflict with husband, in ability to care baby, lack of skill to feed baby, in ability to manage marriage life
3.	Attitude toward early marriage	3.1 Early marriage is a harmful cultural practice; girls should be protected	individual women, society and country affect, it is like irreversible bone fracture, exposed to multiple problems, it brought unbearable failure, must be stopped, legal coverage to punish perpetrators