Table 2.
Included behavior change techniques (BCTs) and linked mechanisms of action (MoAs).
| BCTs | Linked MoAs |
| Goal setting (behavior) | Intentions; goals; and memory, attention, and decision processes |
| Problem-solving | Knowledge; skills; beliefs about capabilities; memory, attention, and decision processes; and behavioral regulation |
| Action planning | Memory, attention, and decision processes; behavioral regulation; and behavioral cueing |
| Graded tasks | Skills; beliefs about capabilities; and memory, attention, and decision processes |
| Review behavior goals | Beliefs about capabilities, reinforcement, intentions, goals, and feedback processes |
| Feedback on behavior | Reinforcement, motivation, and feedback processes |
| Focus on past success | Beliefs about capabilities |
| Prompts or cues | Memory, attention, and decision processes; environmental context and resources; behavioral regulation; and behavioral cueing |
| Habit formation | Memory, attention, and decision processes; behavioral regulation; and behavioral cueing |
| Information about health consequences | Knowledge, beliefs about consequences, intentions, and attitude toward behavior |
| Information on how to perform the behavior | Knowledge, skills, and beliefs about capabilities |
| Demonstration of the behavior | Knowledge, skills, and beliefs about capabilities |
| Body changes | Beliefs about capabilities |
| Verbal persuasion about capability | Beliefs about capabilities |
| Self-monitoring of behavior | Behavioral regulation, feedback processes, and behavioral cueing |
| Feedback on behavior | Reinforcement, motivation, and feedback processes |
| Reduce negative emotions | Skills, emotion, and behavioral regulation |
| Self-monitoring the outcome of behavior | Goals |
| Monitoring of emotional consequences | Beliefs about consequences and emotion |
| Information about emotional consequences | Knowledge, beliefs about consequences, and emotion |
| Social support (unspecified) | Environmental context and resources |
| Social support (practical) | Environmental context and resources |