Table 2.
Determinants mapped into the theoretical domains framework
| Domain | Descriptiona | Determinant |
|---|---|---|
| Knowledge | An awareness of the existence of something | Receiving medication instructions |
| Understanding why medications are being taken | ||
| Understanding medication side effects | ||
| Low knowledge of stroke risk factors | ||
| Understanding how to refill meds | ||
| Self-perceived general health | ||
| Self-reported bad general health | ||
| Skills | An ability or proficiency acquired through practice | Planning and organisation |
| Language skills | ||
| Social/Professional role and identity | A coherent set of behaviours and displayed personal qualities of an individual in a social or work setting | |
| Beliefs about capabilities | Acceptance of the truth, reality, or validity about an ability, talent, or facility that a person can put to constructive use | Cognitive illness items |
| Helplessness | ||
| Optimism | The confidence that things will happen for the best or that desired goals will be attained | |
| Beliefs about consequences | Acceptance of the truth, reality, or validity about outcomes of a behaviour in a given situation | Concerns about medications |
| Affective illness items | ||
| Beliefs about necessity | ||
| Perceived benefit of medication | ||
| Cognitive treatment items | ||
| Affective treatment items | ||
| Risk perception of risk of further stroke | ||
| Beliefs about benefit | ||
| Beliefs about overuse | ||
| Beliefs about harm | ||
| Illness perceptions-acute/chronic timeline | ||
| Illness perceptions-treatment control | ||
| Reinforcement | Increasing the probability of a response by arranging a dependent relationship, or contingency, between the response and a given stimulus | |
| Intentions | A conscious decision to perform a behaviour or a resolve to act in a certain way | Desire for medication now |
| Goals | Mental representations of outcomes or end states that an individual wants to achieve | |
| Memory, Attention and Decision processes | The ability to retain information, focus selectively on aspects of the environment and choose between two or more alternatives | MMSE score |
| RMBT score | ||
| Patient memory | ||
| Environmental context and resources | Any circumstance of a person’s situation or environment that discourages or encourages the development of skills and abilities, independence, social competence, and adaptive behaviour | |
| Social influences | Those interpersonal processes that can cause individuals to change their thoughts, feelings, or behaviours | Support of next of kin |
| Low trust in personal doctor | ||
| Perceived discrimination on account of race, ethnicity, education or income | ||
| Dissatisfied with care | ||
| Dissatisfied with support | ||
| Satisfaction with hospital care/support | ||
| Care received at home | ||
| Inertia | ||
| Inertia (rated by partner) | ||
| Emotions | A complex reaction pattern, involving experiential, behavioural, and physiological elements, by which the individual attempts to deal with a personally significant matter or event | Emotional dyscontrol (rated by partner) |
| Emotional dyscontrol | ||
| Anger | ||
| PTSD symptoms | ||
| (Self-reported) Depression/depressive symptoms | ||
| Low mood | ||
| Fatigue | ||
| Indifference | ||
| Euphoria | ||
| Inertia | ||
| Inertia (rated by partner) | ||
| HADS total | ||
| Anxiety | ||
| Helplessness | ||
| Affective Illness Items | ||
| Behavioural regulation | Anything aimed at managing or changing objectively observed or measured actions |
PTSD post-traumatic stress disorder, HADS The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, MMSE The Mini-Mental State Examination, RMBT The Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test
aDefinitions as stated in Cane et al. 2012 who utilised the definitions from the American Psychological Associations’ Dictionary of Psychology