Table 2.
Behavior change technique | Exercise training | Push notification modules (n) | ||||||
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Monitoring+coaching | Goals+self-monitoring | Heart health | Physical activity | Healthy eating | Stress management | Smoking cessation | Total |
1.1 Goal setting (behavior) | Yes | Yes | 22 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 59 |
1.2 Problem solving | N/Aa | N/A | 17 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 54 |
1.4 Action planning | N/A | N/A | 31 | 12 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 90 |
1.5 Review behavior goal(s) | Yes | Yes | 6 | 4 | 0 | N/A | 4 | 14 |
1.6 Discrepancy between current behavior and goal | Yes | Yes | 10 | 5 | 2 | N/A | N/A | 17 |
2.3 Self-monitoring of behavior | Yes | Yes | 42 | 19 | 24 | 20 | 15 | 120 |
3.1 Social support (unspecified) | Yes | N/A | 7 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
3.3 Social support (emotional) | Yes | N/A | 15 | 9 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 42 |
4.1 Instruction on how to perform behavior | Yes | N/A | 17 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 3 | 62 |
5.1 Information about health consequences | N/A | N/A | 9 | 4 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 44 |
7.1 Prompts/cues | N/A | N/A | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
7.3 Reduce prompts/cues | Yesc | N/A | Yesb | Yesb | Yesb | Yesb | Yesb | Yesb |
8.2 Behavior substitution | N/A | N/A | 2 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
8.3 Habit formation | N/A | N/A | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
8.4 Habit reversal | N/A | N/A | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
8.7 Graded tasks | Yes | N/A | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 15 |
9.1 Credible source | Yesc | N/A | Yesc | Yesc | Yesc | Yesc | Yesc | Yesc |
10.4 Social reward | Yes | N/A | 16 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 41 |
10.9 Self-reward | N/A | N/A | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
11.1 Pharmacological support | N/A | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
12.1 Restructuring the physical environment | N/A | N/A | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
12.3 Avoidance/reducing exposure to cues for the behavior | N/A | N/A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
15.1 Verbal persuasion about capability | Yes | N/A | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 12 |
15.3 Focus on past success | Yes | Yes | 11 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 14 |
Number of discrete behavior change technique within intervention components | 11 | 5 | 20 | 15 | 14 | 11 | 16 | 24 |
Total instances of behavior change technique use within intervention components | —d | —d | 226 | 119 | 107 | 86 | 92 | 630 |
aNot applicable.
bImplicit in the dual-phase intervention design.
cImplicit in inclusion of accredited exercise physiologists and behavioral scientists in intervention design and delivery.
dInstances of behavior change technique use cannot be prospectively quantified for these features.