Table 2.
Description of intervention components and associated behaviour change techniques
Intervention condition | Resources included in booklet | Physical activity behaviour change techniques | BCT taxonomy construct |
Education | Canadian 24-hour Movement Guidelines: included list of benefits of physical activity. | Instruction on how to perform a behaviour. | 4.1 |
Information about health consequences. | 5.1 | ||
Salience of consequences. | 5.2 | ||
Information about social and environmental consequences. | 5.3 | ||
Information about emotional consequences. | 5.6 | ||
Planning (includes education condition resources) |
Goal setting materials. Explanation of SMART goals (specific, manageable, achievable, realistic, timely), self-monitoring. Family physical activity planning worksheets: included brainstorming worksheets for where to be active, new modes for being active, how to plan activity, how to incorporate rewards and journaling and tracking worksheets. |
Goal setting (behaviour). | 1.1 |
Problem solving. | 1.2 | ||
Action planning. | 1.4 | ||
Self-monitoring of behaviour. | 2.3 | ||
Self-monitoring of outcome(s) of behaviour. | 2.4 | ||
Social support (practical). | 3.2 | ||
Social support (emotional). | 3.3 | ||
Non-specific reward. | 10.3 | ||
Self-incentive. | 10.7 | ||
Restructure physical environment. | 12.1 | ||
Restructure social environment. | 12.2 | ||
Habit (includes education and planning group resources) |
Habit building resources. Explanation and examples of habits, introduction to cues and anchoring, brainstorming and planning worksheets. |
Prompts/cues. | 7.1 |
Behavioural practice/rehearsal. | 8.1 | ||
Habit formation. | 8.3 |
Behaviour change techniques are coded as outlined by the Behaviour Change Technique (BCT) Taxonomy Version 1.45