Table 3.

Recommendations to improve childhood vaccination– Western Area Urban, Sierra Leone, 2018

Meaning unit	Category	Subtheme	Theme
Continue campaigns at repeated intervals	Improving vaccination processes and systems	Caregivers want improved vaccination processes, systems and engagement	Recommendations to improve childhood vaccination
Do not rely on campaigns alone
Provision of incentives for caregivers
Concentrate on defaulters
Compensation/incentives for nurses
Being considerate towards health workers
Employ more staff
Stop demanding money
Promote consequences of not vaccinating	Engaging communities to boost vaccine confidence
Peer-to-peer promotion of immunisation
Inform about importance of immunisation
Address ‘stubborn’ caregivers
Engage caregivers who do not want injections