Table 3.

Candidate behaviour change techniques mapped to determinants of behaviour ordered by core, prominent and less-evident determinants identified during previous interview study [35]

Potential behaviour change technique (BCT) categories [23] ordered by likelihood of targeting core, prominent and less-evident determinants	Importance of determinant
	Core to all indicators		Prominent across indicators				Less evident			Not identified
	Environmental context	Social professional role	Knowledge	Memory	Social influences	Beliefs about consequences	Skills	Beliefs about capabilities	Motivation and goals	Emotion	Behavioural regulation
Social support	●	●			●			●		●
Antecedents	●			●							●
Comparison of behaviour		●	●		●		●	●	●	●
Feedback and monitoring		●		●		●		●	●		●
Identity		●								●
Covert learning		●								●
Comparison of outcomes			●		●	●			●
Natural consequences			●			●			●	●
Shaping knowledge			●				●
Goals and planning				●				●	●		●
Repetition and substitution				●			●	●			●
Associations				●					●	●	●
Regulation				●						●	●
Reward and threat					●				●
Self-belief								●
Scheduled consequences									●		●
Number of potentially relevant BCT categories	2	5	4	6	4	3	3	6	8	7	7

A dot signifies a BCT with the potential to target a determinant