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Table 8 Selected BCTs and examples of how operationalised in the intervention

From: A co-production approach guided by the behaviour change wheel to develop an intervention for reducing sedentary behaviour after stroke

Example BCT

TDF domains

Example operationalisation

1.2 Problem solving (goals and planning)

Skills, intentions, goals, behavioural regulation

Caregivers consider challenges to achieving target behaviour in ‘action planning’ activity

2.3 Self-monitoring of behaviour (feedback and monitoring)

Intentions, goals, behavioural regulation

Monitoring sheets provided for patients to record standing and moving activity

3.2 Social support—practical (social support)

Social influences

Providing examples of how caregivers can provide practical help to stroke survivors

4.1 Instruction on how to perform a behaviour (shaping knowledge)

Knowledge, skills, memory/attention/decision-making processes

Advise staff on how to deliver intervention components during training session

5.1 Information about health consequences (natural consequences)

Knowledge, beliefs about consequences

Inform staff and stroke survivors about the health benefits of standing and moving after stroke

6.3 Information about others’ approval (comparison of behaviour)

Social / professional identity and role, beliefs about capabilities, beliefs about consequences

Informing staff that senior colleagues approve of supporting patient to increase standing and moving

8.7 Graded tasks (repetition and substitution)

Behavioural regulation

Increasing stroke survivors’ standing and moving target over time, dependent on ability

9.1 Credible source (comparison of outcomes)

Social/professional role and identity, beliefs about consequences

Advice relating to standing and moving provided to patients and caregivers by professionals

15.1 Verbal persuasion about capability (self-belief)

Beliefs about capabilities, behavioural regulation

Informing stroke survivors of their ability to stand and move