Table 5.
Mapping of relevant Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) domains on intervention components
| Relevant TDF domains | Behaviour change techniques |
| Knowledge | Information regarding behaviour, outcome |
| Health consequences | |
| Biofeedback | |
| Antecedents | |
| Feedback on the behaviour | |
| Social professional role and identity | Social process of encouragement, pressure and support |
| Optimism | Verbal persuasion to boost self-efficacy |
| Focus on past success | |
| Social influence | Social process of encouragement, pressure and support |
| Modelling/demonstration of the behaviour by others | |
| Social comparison | |
| Vicarious reinforcement | |
| Restructuring the social environment | |
| Identification of self as a role model | |
| Social reward | |
| Emotion | Stress management |
| Coping skills | |
| Reduce negative emotions | |
| Emotional consequences | |
| Self-assessment of affective consequences | |
| Social support (emotional) | |
| Goals | Goal/target specified: behaviour or outcome |
| Contract | |
| Rewards, incentives (including self-evaluation) | |
| Graded task, starting with easy tasks | |
| Increasing skills: problem-solving, decision-making, goal-setting | |
| Social process of encouragement, pressure and support | |
| Persuasive communication | |
| Information regarding behaviour, outcome | |
| Motivational interviewing | |
| Review of outcome goal(s) | |
| Review of behaviour goal(s) | |
| Action planning (including implementation intentions) | |
| Reinforcement | Threat |
| Self-reward | |
| Differential reinforcement | |
| Incentive | |
| Thinning | |
| Negative reinforcement | |
| Shaping | |
| Counterconditioning | |
| Discrimination training | |
| Material reward | |
| Social reward | |
| Non-specific reward | |
| Response cost | |
| Anticipation of future rewards or removal of punishment | |
| Punishment | |
| Extinction | |
| Classical conditioning | |
| Counterconditioning |