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. 2020 Jul 23;2020:2693830. doi: 10.1155/2020/2693830

Table 2.

Summery of themes and subthemes for the occurrence of mass psychogenic illness in Haraza Elementary School, Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, 2019.

Category (CAs) Themes (TMs) Orders/subthemes (Os/ST)
School community members Theme 1: onset of an episode Onset of illness occurred for the first time
Incident occurred while students were learning English
Index case does not have an economic problem
Index case was a middle-level student
No one told us the type of incident even health workers
Community members Theme 2: community perception about the incident Such type of incident does not occur before in the locality
Health professionals
No one told us the type of incident including health professionals
Such type of incident does not occur before in the locality
No one told us the type of incident including health professionals
Unknown communicable disease
Blaming of an unidentified teacher being an evil eye
Community members Theme 3: treatment sought by the community Frequent follow-up of holy water
Visiting a sorcerer
Praying for “God”
Not confident to attend the health service
The disease not known by health professionals
Health professionals Theme 4: health professional awareness We do not know the disease and did not experience before
The disease was unspecified
It was difficult for us to manage the incident
Health professionals Theme 5: psychosocial impacts of the illness Discriminating complaints thinking being transmitted disease
Community members School dropout
Community frustration not sending students at school