Barriers hindering attendance and adherence to antenatal care visits among women in rural areas in Rwanda: An exploratory qualitative study

• Olive Tengera ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tengera.olive@gmail.com, o.tengera1@ur.ac.rw

  Affiliation School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1149-2568

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• Pamela Meharry,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda, School of Nursing, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, United States of America

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• Aimable Nkurunziza,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda, Arthur Labatt Family, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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• Yolanda Babenko-Mould,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Arthur Labatt Family, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Joselyne Rugema,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda

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• Stephen Rulisa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine and Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda

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• Laetitia Nyirazinyoye

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda

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