Table 3.

Reasons of non-usage iron supplementation among the female students in high schools of Zahedan

Theme	Subtheme	Code
Digestive difficulties	Tab’s bad taste	Special taste; bad taste; A little bad taste; bitter taste; I don’t like the taste
	Nausea	Nausea; Disgusting; Sometimes disgusting
	Vomiting	I vomit; I have vomited once or two times; I vomited
	Digestive difficulties	Stomach ache
	Dysphagia	I feel it is trapped in my throat
	Headache and vertigo	Vertigo after intake; Sometimes vertigo after intake; Headache and vertigo
Influence of people	Physician prescription	I follow the physician prescription; The physician has prescribed
	The influence of friends	Friends; I don’t eat like my friends; Some students are reluctant to eat because other students don’t eat
	The influence of family	Family
	Consult with physician	Physician diagnosis
Personal low performance	Forgetting	I forget to take it
	Indolence	Indolence in consumption
	Lack of motivation	I don’t have any motivation to take it
	Lack of information	I’m not sick; They are not effective; I don’t need it at all
	Illness	It make me sick
	Reluctance to take pills	I don’t like it; I hate it; I hate pills; I don’t take iron pills at all; I am reluctant to take pills every day
Environmental causes	Inappropriate delivery	In appropriate delivery; only one or two times since the beginning of the term
	No delivery	Less than four times delivery since the beginning of school; They don’t give us iron pills at all; The school don’t give us Iron pills
	Inappropriate situation of school	Inappropriate situation of school