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