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. 2018 Jun 8;18:434. doi: 10.1186/s12913-018-3244-1

Table 1.

BCTs clustered into themes

BCT themes Number of BCTs Potential BCTs Acceptable and relevant BCTs
Information channel 1 Credible source1
Information/content 4 Goal setting (behaviour)1
Goal setting (outcome)1
Problem solving1
Action planning1
Learning 3 Demonstration of the behaviour1,2
Instruction on how to perform a behaviour1 ×
Identification of self as role model2 ×
Support 3 Social support (unspecified/general)1,2
Social support (practical)1,2
Social support (emotional)2 ×
Other’s approval 1 Information about others’ approval2 ×
Consequences 9 Information about health consequences1 ×
Social and environmental consequences1,2 ×
Emotional consequences2 ×
Salience of consequences2 ×
Anticipated regret2 ×
Comparative imagining of future outcomes2 ×
Pros and cons2 ×
Covert sensitisation2 ×
Covert conditioning2 ×
Reward 1 Social reward2 ×
Change 3 Adding objects to the environment1
Prompts/cues1
Restructuring the physical environment1 ×

1 = Process 1; 2 = Process 2