Barriers related to childhood vaccination–Western Area Urban, Sierra Leone, 2018
| Meaning unit | Category | Subthemes | Themes |
| Asking husband for money | Preparing for the journey and getting to the clinic | Practical constraints | Barriers related to childhood vaccination |
| Juggling different household duties | |||
| Competing priorities | |||
| Time taken to get to the clinic | |||
| Wasting time at the clinic | Inconveniences at the clinic | ||
| Rush to arrive first and seen first | |||
| Crowding at the clinic | |||
| Very long wait at larger health facilities | |||
| Spent a day and nothing happened | |||
| Wasting caregiver’s time | |||
| Not respecting caregivers | Feeling disrespected by health workers | Negative experiences with health workers | |
| Shouting at caregivers | |||
| Paying for the card | Monetary expectations | ||
| Paying for free drugs | |||
| Paying for weighing | |||
| Payment as punishment | |||
| Bad care without payment | |||
| Health workers should stop demanding money | |||
| Health worker don’t appreciate less than Le 2000 | |||
| Health workers withholding free drugs | |||
| Baby crying throughout the night | Vaccine side effects | Safety concerns | |
| Baby gets ‘lazy’ for few hours | |||
| Fever in baby | |||
| Swelling at injection site | |||
| Side effects only for some vaccines | |||
| Rub onion on swollen injection site | |||
| Avoiding abnormalities from vaccine | |||
| Afraid of vaccine side effects |