Table 1.
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