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Table 3 Barriers and enablers to sexual health service use: Salient domains from the TDF mapped to the COM-B

From: Barriers and enablers to sexual health service use among university students: a qualitative descriptive study using the Theoretical Domains Framework and COM-B model

Barriers and Enablers

COM-B and TDF Domains

Capability

Opportunity

Motivation

Psychological

Social

Physical

Reflective

Automatic

K

MAD

SI

E

CO

OP

EM

Limited Sexual Health Knowledge

✔

      

Lack of Clarity for LGBTQ Students

✔

      

Visibility of Sexual Health Services

 

✔

     

Health Care Provider Interaction

  

✔

    

Peer Influence

  

✔

    

Campus Culture

   

✔

   

Accessibility of Services

   

✔

   

Period of Exploration and Experimentation

    

✔

  

Normalizing Sexual Health

     

✔

 

Stigma, Privacy and Confidentiality

    

✔

 

✔

  1. Note. K knowledge, MAD memory, attention, and decision-making processes, SI social influences, E environmental context and resources, CO beliefs about consequences, OP optimism, EM emotion