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Table 1 Behavior change techniques (BCTsa) in the AGNES intervention

From: Individualized counselling for active aging: protocol of a single-blinded, randomized controlled trial among older people (the AGNES intervention study)

Group

Behavior change techniques

Face-to-face counselling

Information booklet

Phone counselling

Newsletter

Goals and planning

Goal setting (behavior)

X

X

  

Problem solving

X

X

X

 

Action planning

X

X

X

 

Review behavior goals

  

X

 

Discrepancy between current behavior and goal

  

X

 

Feedback and monitoring

Self-monitoring of behavior

X

X

X

 

Social support

Social support (unspecified)

X

 

X

 

Social support (practical)

X

X

X

X

Social support (emotional)

X

X

X

 

Natural consequences

Monitoring of emotional consequences

X

X

X

 

Information about health consequences

 

X

  

Information about social and environmental consequences

 

X

  

Information about emotional consequences

 

X

  

Identity

Incompatible beliefs

X

   

Valued self-identity

X

X

  

Associations

Prompts/cues

 

X

  

Repetition and substitution

Habit formation

 

X

  

Generalization of a target behavior

 

X

X

 

Graded tasks

 

X

  

Comparison of outcomes

Credible source

 

X

 

X

Pros and cons

 

X

  

Comparative imagining of future outcomes

 

X

  

Reward

Self-reward

 

X

X

 

Social reward

  

X

 

Antecedents

Restructuring the physical environment

 

X

  

Restructuring the social environment

 

X

  

Comparison of behavior

Social comparison

   

X

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