Table 3.
Excerpt of mapping intervention functions to COM-B and Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) components.
| COM-B | Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) | Sub-themes | Intervention funtions | Example |
| Psychological capability | Skills (cognitive) | Parents have difficulty in measuring food portions | Training, Environmental restructuring | Train parents to measure portion sizes, provide a visual tool to help measure food |
| Reflective motivation | Beliefs about capabilities | Parents have a lack of confidence in their ability to make changes | Education, persuasion, Enablement | Educate, persuade and enable parents to increase their self-confidence in making changes to their children’s eating habits. |
| Physical opportunity | Environmental context and resources | Parents’ preferences for household objects such as plates to measure portion sizes | Environmental restructuring | Restructure the home environment to provide a tool for greater accuracy in measuring food portions |