Table 2.

The number of interventions that used possible behavior change techniques (n=23) [38].

Behavior change techniques used in interventions	n (%)
Credible sources (eg, health professional, government, charity, celebrity)	23 (100)
Information about health consequences	23 (100)
Instruction on how to perform a behavior	22 (96)
Social support	17 (74)
Social comparison (eg, comparing a person’s actions to the actions of others)	17 (74)
Information about others’ approval	17 (74)
Goal-setting behavior	16 (70)
Social incentive (eg, providing a written reward only if a person performs the desired action)	12 (52)
Salience of consequences (eg, emphasizing the consequences of cancer)	2 (9)
Restructuring the physical environment (ie, changing the environment to facilitate the desired action)	1 (4)