Table 2.

Examples of change objectives for nurse practitioners derived from combining the performance objectives and determinants.

Performance objectives	Behavioral determinants
	Awareness	Knowledge	Skills	Self-efficacy	Attitude		Professional role and identity
NPsa carry out the intervention during their consultations with recipients who have been included in the study	Are aware of benefits using the intervention protocol	Know how to use intervention protocol and when to use which techniques	Have skills (ie, conversational and motivational techniques) to carry out the intervention	Feel self-efficacious to carry out the intervention	Have a stronger positive feeling toward carrying out the intervention than negative	Deem self-management support and carrying out the intervention as part of their professional role
NPs assess if recipients experience challenges or problems in several areas of life	Become aware of problems in recipients’ life on other than medical domains and the benefits of assessing psychosocial areas	N/Ab	Have skills to assess and discuss psychosocial and medical aspects	Feel self-efficacious about assessing and discussing psychosocial and medical aspects	Have stronger positive feelings about assessing psychosocial and medical aspects than solely assessing medical aspects	N/A
When recipients indicate that there is a problem in a specific life area, NPs stimulate recipients to set a SMART goal and agree with recipients on the goal	N/A	Know how to set a SMART goal together with the recipient	N/A	Feel self-efficacious about assisting recipients in setting a SMART goal	N/A	N/A
NPs assist and stimulate recipients to make and implement action plans for attaining their goals	N/A	Know how to assist the recipient to make an action plan which is achievable	N/A	Feel self-efficacious about assisting recipients in making an action plan	N/A	N/A

^aNP: nurse practitioner.

^bN/A: not applicable.