Effective Feedback to Improve Primary Care Prescribing Safety (EFIPPS) a pragmatic three-arm cluster randomised trial: designing the intervention (ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT01602705)

Table 1 TPB constructs and behaviour change techniques

Psychology construct	Level of evidence based on expert opinion (Michie[17])
Psychology construct	Agreed use	Uncertain
Attitude (beliefs about consequences)	•Self-monitoring	•Monitoring
	•Persuasive communication	•Graded task
	•Information regarding behaviour/outcome	•Modelling/demonstration of behaviour
	•Feedback	•Modelling/demonstration of behaviour
Subjective norms (social influences)	•Social processes of encouragement, pressure, support	•Monitoring
	•Modelling/demonstration of behaviours	Reward/incentives
		•Role play
		•Persuasive communication
		•Homework
Perceived behavioural control (beliefs about capabilities and environmental context and resources)	•Self-Monitoring	•Monitoring
	•Graded task	•Reward/incentives
	•Increasing skills, problem solving, goal setting	•Stress management
	•Coping skills	•Information regarding behaviour/outcome
	•Rehearsal of relevant skills	•Personalised message
	•Social processes of encouragement
	•Feedback
	•Self-talk
	•Environmental changes, e.g. objects to facilitate behaviour
Action planning (action planning)	•Goal target specified	•Monitoring
	•Contract	•Social processes of encouragement
	•Planning/implementation	•Personalised message
	•Prompts, triggers, cues	•Homework
	•Use of imagery	•Feedback
	•Use of imagery	•Self-talk

Marked in italics demonstrates techniques already incorporated into feedback for both intervention arms two and three.
Marked in bold demonstrates techniques selected and implemented in the psychology-informed intervention.

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