Table 1.

Description and definition of the COM-B components

COM-B components		Definition
Capability	Physical psychological	Capability refers to an individual’s psychological and physical ability to get involved in the specific activity under concern and it includes having the knowledge and skills necessary to engage in the activity
Opportunity	Physical social	Opportunity is the different external factors that make the behaviour possible or prompt it. Opportunity barriers are external constraints on a provider’s enactment of a behaviour
Motivation	Reflective automatic	Motivation is defined as the brain processes that boost and direct behaviour including: habitual processes, emotional response, as well as analytical decision making