Table 4.
Barriers in rank order of utterances in relation to MIND diet in 40–55-year olds in Rome and NI: COM-B and TDF domains
| Italy | Northern Ireland | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| COM-B | TDF | Rank order | Frequency of Utterances | % of utterances. | COM-B | TDF | Rank order | Frequency of utterances | %of utterances |
| Physical opportunity | Environmental context and resources | 1 | 93 | 33 | Physical opportunity | Environmental Context and resources | 1 | 90 | 29 |
| Social opportunity | Social Influence | 2 | 43 | 15 | Reflective motivation | Belief about capabilities | 2 | 46 | 15 |
| Reflective motivation | Belief about Capabilities | 3 | 37 | 13 | Psychological capability | Knowledge | 3 | 37 | 12 |
| Psychological capability | Behaviour regulation | 4 | 29 | 10 | Psychological capability | Memory, attention, Decision making | 4 | 30 | 10 |
| Psychological capability | Knowledge | 5 | 29 | 10 | Psychological capability | Behaviour regulation | 5 | 24 | 7 |
| Reflective motivation | Social, Professional and Identity | 6 | 15 | 5 | Physical capability | Physical skills | 6 | 17 | 6 |
| Reflective motivation | Belief about consequences | 7 | 11 | 4 | Social opportunity | Social Influence | 7 | 15 | 5 |
| Physical capability | Skills | 8 | 9 | 3 | Reflective motivation | Belief about consequences | 8 | 12 | 4 |
| Reflective motivation | Intention | 9 | 9 | 3 | Reflective motivation | Social professional and identity | 9 | 12 | 4 |
| Reflective motivation | Optimism | 10 | 7 | 2 | Reflective motivation | Intention | 10 | 9 | 3 |
| Automatic motivation | Emotion | 11 | 4 | 2 | Reflective motivation | Optimism | 11 | 6 | 2 |
| Automatic motivation | Reinforcement | 0 | 0 | 0 | Reflective motivation | Goals | 12 | 5 | 2 |
| Reflective motivation | Goals | 0 | 0 | 0 | Automatic motivation | Emotion | 13 | 3 | 1 |
| Psychological capability | Memory, attention | 0 | 0 | 0 | Automatic motivation | Reinforcement | 14 | 1 | 0 |
| 286 | 100 | 307 | 100 | ||||||
Information above the thick black line represents the top 6 reported domains of the TDF and corresponding COM-B components. Eighty percent of the data fell into the top 6 TDF domains, COM-B Capability (C): Psychological or physical ability to enact behaviour, Opportunity (O) Physical and social environment that enables behaviour. Motivation (M): Reflective or automatic mechanisms that activate or inhibit behaviour; Behaviour (B), TDF Theoretical Domains Framework
Utterances: Spoken word/words in relation to themes/subthemes emerging from questions asked regarding MIND diet. n = 50