Table 1 Questions asked to different categories of study participants and data collection methods used
Question | Study participant and data collection method | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Schoolgirl (FGD) | Parent/guardian (FGD) | Health worker, teacher and community leader (KII) | |
What do you think the people understood to be the benefit of the HPV vaccination? (E.g. protection against HPV/cervical cancer, HIV, other STIs) | √ | √ |  |
How would you describe the initial reaction of the community to introduction of the HPV vaccine? |  |  | √ |
What fears about HPV vaccine have you heard about in the schools or community? (I.e. fears among parents, fears among girls) | √ | √ | √ |
What fears about vaccines in general have you heard in the schools or community? |  | √ | √ |
How do you think the fears about the vaccine affected its acceptance? |  | √ | √ |
What complaints did you hear of concerning the HPV vaccine? (I.e. complaints by parents, complaints by girls) | √ | √ | √ |
How do you think the complaints about the vaccine affected its acceptance? |  | √ | √ |
What unfounded rumors or misinformation have you heard about the vaccine? |  |  | √ |
How do you think the rumors or misinformation influenced the behaviour and attitudes of adolescent girls about the vaccine? |  |  | √ |
How do you think the rumor or misinformation influenced the behaviour and attitudes of parents about the vaccine? |  |  | √ |
To what extent were girls willing to be vaccinated against HPV? | √ |  |  |
What do you think made the girls willing to be vaccinated? | √ |  |  |
What do you think made some girls not willing to be vaccinated? | √ |  |  |
To what extent were parents willing that their daughters be vaccinated? | √ | √ | √ |
What do you think made the parents willing that their daughters be vaccinated? | √ | √ | √ |
What do you think made some parents not willing for their daughters to be vaccinated? | √ | √ | √ |
If there is vaccination against HPV in future, would you be willing for your own daughters to be vaccinated? (Probe why YES and why NO) | √ | √ |  |
Why would you be willing for your daughters to be vaccinated against HPV? |  | √ |  |
Why would you be not willing for your daughters to be vaccinated against HPV? |  | √ |  |
Would you advise your friend to get the vaccination if there is vaccination against HPV in future (Probe why YES and why NO) | √ |  |  |
If there is vaccination against HPV in future, would you (and your fellow health workers, teachers, and community leaders) encourage and support young girls to be vaccinated? |  |  | √ |
Why would you encourage and support young girls to be vaccinated? |  |  | √ |
Why wouldn’t you encourage and support young girls to be vaccinated? |  |  | √ |
How do you think the perceptions about protection offered by the vaccine affects behaviour of the girls who receive the vaccine now and in future? |  | √ |  |