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Table 3 Behaviour change techniques (BCTs), modes and content of delivery to implement the seven prioritised interventions for multidisciplinary trauma team training

From: Using theories of behaviour change to transition multidisciplinary trauma team training from the training environment to clinical practice

Interventions functions

Which BCTs could overcome the modifiable barriers and enhance the enablers.

Proposed intervention components (how the techniques will be delivered and what content will be delivered)

Facilitators and barriers relating to educational strategies for training a ‘flash’ trauma resuscitation team

Education

Environmental restructuring

Persuasion

Modelling

Enablement

Information about consequences

Instructions on performing the behaviour

Feedback on behaviour

Problem-solving

Action planning

Social support

Demonstration of the behaviour

Social influences

Trauma Team Training programme will be modified to include:

1. Train ‘flash teams’ in ‘teaming’ which is teamwork on the flya

2. Contextualised simulated team trainingb

3. Spaced learningb

4. Rapid cycle deliberate practice of non-technical skillsc

Facilitators and barriers relating to moving from the concept of a ‘Team’ to ‘Teaming’

Education

Training

Persuasion

Enablement

Policy category

Regulation

Guidelines

Service Provision

Communication/marketing

1. Regulations: Trauma governance committee

2. Guidelines: Trauma algorithms (treatment protocols)

3. Communication plan: TTT multi-media campaign

4. Service Provision: All trauma team members complete TTT

Facilitators and barriers relating to team culture in a ‘flash’ trauma resuscitation team

Modelling

Enablement

Incentivisation

Environmental restructuring

Credible source

Information about others approval

Demonstration of the behaviour

Salience of consequences

Commitment

Verbal persuasion about capacity

Social support

Social reward

Goal setting

Review behaviour goals

1. Sponsorship from senior leaders and managers

2. Team leader buddy system

Facilitators and barriers to standardising operational procedures to enable co-ordination in ‘flash’ trauma resuscitation teams

Environmental restructuring

Modelling

Enablement

Persuasion

Incentivisation

Adding objects to the environment

Prompts/cues

Restructuring the physical environment

Demonstration of the behaviour

Salience of consequences

Information about consequences

Commitment

Feedback on outcomes of the behaviour

Goal setting

Social rewards

Social support

1. Checklist and cognitive aids

2. Revision of equipment organisation and ergonomics

3. A stop clock to time-critical events/processes

4. Structure teamwork prompts, e.g. Zero-point surveyd

5. Structured debriefing toole

  1. aEdmondson AC. Teamwork on the fly. Harvard Business Review. 2012;90 (4):72–80
  2. bCheng A, Nadkarni VM, Mancini MB, et al. Resuscitation Education Science: Educational Strategies to Improve Outcomes From Cardiac Arrest: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2018:CIR. 0000000000000583
  3. cBurden AR, Pukenas EW, Deal ER, et al. Using Simulation Education With Deliberate Practice to Teach Leadership and Resource Management Skills to Senior Resident Code Leaders. Journal of Graduate Medical Education. 2014;6 (3):463–469
  4. dReid C, Brindley P, Hicks C, et al. Zero point survey: a multidisciplinary idea to STEP UP resuscitation effectiveness. Clin Exp Emerg Med. 9 2018;5 (3):139–143
  5. eRose S, Cheng A. Charge nurse facilitated clinical debriefing in the emergency department. Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2018:1–5