Table 2.
Grouping of meaning units into sub-categories, categories, and themes, qualitative assessment, Burkina Faso, 2018.
| Sub-categories | Categories | Themes |
|---|---|---|
| Vaccination reminder | Information content | Information about MACV and MCV2 |
| Vaccination benefits | ||
| Healthcare workers | Information sources | |
| Community health workers | ||
| Mass media (TV, radio) | ||
| Other caregivers | ||
| Traditional and religious leaders | ||
| Town criers | ||
| Awareness of vaccine schedule | Awareness | Motivations to seek MACV for the child |
| Awareness of ‘no-cost’ for vaccines | ||
| Trust in healthcare workers | Trusted messengers | |
| Distrust in healthcare workers | ||
| Other caregivers in the community | ||
| Severity of meningitis | Perceived benefits | |
| No more meningitis cases | ||
| Protection against meningitis | ||
| Failure to make vaccines available | Unavailability or withholding of vaccines | Barriers to the uptake of MACV and MCV2 |
| Fear of wastage | ||
| Multiple trips to health facilities | ||
| Inability to pay at private clinics | ||
| Not knowing importance of the 15–18-month visit | Knowledge gaps | |
| Difficult technical information | ||
| Not knowing the vaccine schedule | ||
| Lack of time to travel | Practical constraints | |
| Long wait time at healthcare center | ||
| Inclement weather | ||
| Harvest season | ||
| Unpleasant experiences with healthcare workers | Past negative experiences | |
| Shaming women who missed visits | ||
| Stigmatization of farming women | Sociocultural influences | |
| Stigma for not birth spacing | ||
| No need for MACV if other vaccines received | Misinformation | |
| No need for repeat visit at 15 months | ||
| Healthy children don’t need vaccines | ||
| Vaccines paralyze, sterile, or kill children |