Table 5.
Facilitators 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 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FACILITATORS COM-B |
TDF | Rank order | Frequency of utterances | % utterances | COM-B | TDF | Rank order | Frequency of utterances | % of utterances |
| Physical opportunity | Environment context | 1 | 48 | 21 | Reflective motivation | Belief about consequences | 1 | 28 | 17 |
| Reflective motivation | Belief about Capabilities | 2 | 36 | 16 | Reflective motivation | Belief about capabilities | 2 | 27 | 16 |
| Reflective motivation | Belief about consequences | 3 | 32 | 14 | Physical opportunity | Environmental Context and resources | 3 | 22 | 13 |
| Social opportunity | Social | 4 | 28 | 12 | Social Opportunity | Social influence | 4 | 21 | 13 |
| Physical capability | Skills | 5 | 19 | 8 | Physical capability | Skills | 5 | 20 | 12 |
| Reflective motivation | Identity | 6 | 16 | 7 | Automatic motivation | Emotion | 6 | 15 | 9 |
| Automatic motivation | Emotion | 7 | 16 | 7 | Automatic motivation | Reinforcement | 7 | 10 | 6 |
| Reflective motivation | Optimism | 8 | 10 | 4 | Reflective motivation | Intention | 8 | 6 | 4 |
| Reflective motivation | Intention | 9 | 10 | 4 | Psychological capability | Behaviour regulation | 9 | 4 | 2 |
| Automatic motivation | Reinforcement | 10 | 7 | 3 | Reflective motivation | Optimism | 10 | 4 | 2 |
| Psychological capability | Regulation | 11 | 4 | 2 | Reflective motivation | Social/Professional and identity | 11 | 3 | 2 |
| Psychological capability | Attention | 12 | 3 | 1 | Psychological capability | Knowledge | 12 | 3 | 2 |
| Psychological capability | Knowledge | 13 | 2 | 1 | Psychological capability | Memory | 13 | 1 | 1 |
| 231 | 100 | 164` | 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