Table 4.

Lyme disease perceptions themes and sub-themes that emerged through the process of qualitative analysis. The most common 5–6 sub-themes are shown per theme

Lyme disease perceptions
Lack of Knowledge	Causes of Spread	Risk and Awareness	Illness Representation
• Public • Medical	• Climate change • Habitat change • Migration • Weather • Natural spread, natural cycles of ticks	• Temporal and geographic dimensions of risk • Increasing public awareness • Source of risk information • Diagnosis or risk increasing • Risk is not new • Absence of risk	• Causes • Symptoms • Treatment and prevention • Trajectory • Consequences • Definition