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Table 3 Final selection of BCTs to target each key domain and include as components of an intervention to improve medicines management for people with dementia (PwD) in primary care

From: Improving medicines management for people with dementia in primary care: a qualitative study of healthcare professionals to develop a theory-informed intervention

Key TDF domain

Behaviour change techniques (BCTs) selected to target the TDF domain

Knowledge

Health consequencesa

Skills

Modelling/demonstration of behaviour by othersb

Memory, attention and decision processes

Self-monitoringb

Planning, implementationb (equivalent to ‘Action planning’)

Behavioural regulation

Self-monitoring of behavioura

Planning, implementationb (equivalent to ‘Action planning’)

Social/professional role and identity

Social processes of encouragement, pressure, supportb

Beliefs about capabilities

Self-monitoringb

Social processes of encouragement, pressure, supportb

Beliefs about consequences

Salience of consequencesa

Social and environmental consequencesa

Self-monitoringb

Goals

Action planning (including implementation intentions)a

Social processes of encouragement, pressure, supportb

Reinforcement

None selectedc

Emotion

None selectedc

Environmental context and resources

None selectedc

Social influences

Modelling or demonstrating the behavioura

Social process of encouragement, pressure, supportb

Modelling/demonstration of behaviour by othersb

  1. aIdentified from Cane et al. (2012) mapping tables [34]
  2. bIdentified from Michie et al. (2008) mapping tables [35]
  3. cNone of the BCTs mapped to these domains were considered to be feasible to target within the confines of the current project