Table I.

Example of the coding process

Quote	Meaning units	Codes	Subcategory	Category
“I felt isolated by my relatives. After my discharge, my mother-in-law did not allow me to self-quarantine at home because there were two children there. She told me to go to my mother’s home. However, my younger sister also did not let me live there. I was really sad. Everyone in the community was afraid of me.” “Relatives and friends did not want to be close to us and said that they should keep their distance from people who had been infected with the virus. They said that people will always carry the virus once infected. They said that they feared they could get infected from us.”	Feeling isolated by relatives and friends; Feeling sad; Feared by everyone in the community; Others kept the distance from them; Being thought to carry the virus still even after discharge; Fear of being infected from survivors	Isolation, sadness, labelling and prejudice, afraid	Social stigma	Social problems