Pregnant women’s views on how to promote the use of a decision aid for Down syndrome prenatal screening: a theory-informed qualitative study

Table 1 BCTs clustered into themes

BCT themes	Number of BCTs	Potential BCTs	Acceptable and relevant BCTs
Information channel	1	Credible source¹	✓
Information/content	4	Goal setting (behaviour)¹	✓
		Goal setting (outcome)¹	✓
		Problem solving¹	✓
		Action planning¹	✓
Learning	3	Demonstration of the behaviour^1,2	✓
		Instruction on how to perform a behaviour¹	×
		Identification of self as role model²	×
Support	3	Social support (unspecified/general)^1,2	✓
		Social support (practical)^1,2	✓
		Social support (emotional)²	×
Other’s approval	1	Information about others’ approval²	×
Consequences	9	Information about health consequences¹	×
		Social and environmental consequences^1,2	×
		Emotional consequences²	×
		Salience of consequences²	×
		Anticipated regret²	×
		Comparative imagining of future outcomes²	×
		Pros and cons²	×
		Covert sensitisation²	×
		Covert conditioning²	×
Reward	1	Social reward²	×
Change	3	Adding objects to the environment¹	✓
		Prompts/cues¹	✓
		Restructuring the physical environment¹	×

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