Investigating midwives’ barriers and facilitators to multiple health promotion practice behaviours: a qualitative study using the theoretical domains framework

Table 1 Criteria for why TDF domains were identified as key in understanding the barriers and facilitators midwives experience in undertaking multiple HePPBes

TDF domain	Domain description	(i) High frequency of specific beliefs	(ii) Existence of conflicting beliefs	(iii) Indication of clear beliefs
Professional role and identity	Views of how HePPBes relate to the professional role of being a midwife	✓	✓
Beliefs about consequences	Expectations about what would occur if midwives perform HePPBes		✓	✓
Motivation and goals	Reasons for carrying out or not carrying out HePPBes	✓
Memory/Attention and decision processes	The ability to remember, observe and select in relation to HePPBes	✓		✓
Environmental context and resources	The effects of the healthcare setting on HePPBes and the impact of what is available to midwives (in terms of physical and psychological resources) on HePPBes			✓
Social influences	The interpersonal processes which influence midwives’ cognitions, emotions and HePPBes	✓	✓
Emotion	Feelings about performing HePPBes			✓
Behavioural regulation	Midwives’ attempts to influence HePPBes	✓
Nature of the behaviour	Midwives’ descriptions of how they have carried out HePPBes in the past and how HePPBes operate within the NHS	✓