Table 3 Example of the abstraction process for the study on repeat adolescent birth in Eastern Uganda
Themes | Sub-theme | Sub-sub-theme | Exemplar quotes |
|---|---|---|---|
Poverty | Limited provisions | “… my parents cannot pay school fees for all the 7 children so it is only one boy who is in school now …” | |
“I had no knickers and when I could go into periods, I would have nothing to use and that could trouble me a lot …” | |||
Large families | “… we are 8 children, that number was big...So it was too much and yet there was no money …” | ||
Dropping out of school | “I stopped going to school when the pregnancy was 2 months; I could no longer concentrate in class because I was only thinking of the pregnancy …” | ||
Alcohol abuse | “… whenever he [father] would get money, he would go drinking and leave us … he was not bothered …” | ||
Broken family structure | “When my mother left, there was no one to pay my school fees …” | ||
“When my father died, my mother could not raise my school fees …” | |||
Vulnerability | Marital entrapment | “… others are just forced to get married …” | |
“… I cannot go back and burden my family.” | |||
“I decided to get married to a person who could provide them [family] with food and he is paying school fees for my sisters up to now …” | |||
Partner coercion | “… he [partner] could not allow me use any family planning method even up to now, he does not want me to use it; he is very against it and very tough when it comes to using family planning …” | ||
“… he [partner] touched my arm and felt it and he ordered me to remove it immediately; he was very bitter.” | |||
Domestic violence | Abuse | “… he [the father] would come back at night and start abusing us, chasing us out of home …” | |
“The condition at home was also hard; the kind of life we were living in was not good …” | |||
Demotivators for repeat adolescent birth | Partner abandonment | “Unfortunately, he [partner] no longer is helping me … I am struggling on my own …” | |
“… he refused me completely … actually I have gone through a lot and it has made me stay without getting another child.” | |||
Stern warning | “I shouted at them to leave issues of my child alone so I became tough on her …” | ||
Objection to marriage | “No, no, we have never wished any of them to get married, we instead encouraged them to study …” | ||
“I did not marry; I stayed home with my parents.” | |||
Empowerment | Economic activity | “My mother gave me capital to start business …” | |
Contraception use | “Am now using injectaplan for 3 months …” | ||
Resumption of schooling | “I had to suggest to her to do this course she was positive so I took her.” |