Table 1.

PACE-UP patient handbook and diary, and behavioural change techniques included

	Guide to content	Behavioural change techniques [58]
Patient handbook	Health benefits of increasing walking	1, 2
	PA guidelines	4
	Moderate intensity PA and relating it to number of steps
	PACE-UP walking programme and step-count targets	7,9,16
	Review participant baseline step-count	19
	How to increase PA safely	21
	Useful websites	4
	How to keep going when PACE-UP programme finishes	1,2,16,26,29,35
Patient diary	How to use pedometer and record steps in diary	16, 21
	Frequently asked questions on PACE-UP trial
	Weekly recording of step-count and walking in diary (weeks 1–12)	7,9,19,26
	Achievement of targets (weeks 1–12)	10,12,13
	Planning when to walk, where to walk, who to walk with	20,29
	Week 2 Tips and motivators: make walking part of your daily routine	20
	Week 3 Ttips and motivators: remember personal benefits, what to do if you	2,20,35
	are falling behind your targets
	Week 4 Keep it up: praise and reward yourself, encouraging social support	12,13,29
	Week 5 Keep motivated: write down step-counts, ask for support	12,16,29
	Week 6 Now we are moving: obstacles and solutions	8
	Week 7 How to make these changes permanent – ideas for new walks, making time for walking, what gains have been made so far?	38,17,11
	Week 8 Maintain the gain: pacing, tips for safe exercising	9,21,35
	Week 9 Be busy being active: keep monitoring with pedometer, places, people and thoughts that motivate you	16,29,36
	Week 10 Change does not happen in a straight line! Preparing for setbacks	8,35
	Week 11 Make it a healthy habit: building regular exercise habits, creating if-then plans	1,2,7,23
	Week 12 I’ve changed: how to keep up your walking programme	16,20,29
	Congratulations you have completed the programme	11,16,17
	How to keep going when PACE-UP programme finishes	1,16,29

1. Provide general information on behaviour-health link; 2. Provide information on consequences to individual; 4. Provide normative information about others’ behaviour; 7. Action planning; 8. Barrier identification; 9. Set graded tasks; 10. Prompt review of behavioural goals; 11. Prompt review of outcome goals; 12. Prompt rewards contingent on effort; 13. Prompt rewards contingent on successful behaviour; 16. Prompt self-monitoring of behaviour; 17. Prompting self-monitoring of behavioural outcome; 19. Provide feedback on performance; 20. Provide information on when and where to perform the behaviour; 21. Provide instructions on how to perform the behaviour; 23. Teach to use prompts/cues; 26. Prompt practice; 29. Plan social support/social change; 35. Relapse prevention/coping planning; 36. Stress management/emotional control training; 38. Time management.