Table 1 The theoretical domains framework

1. Knowledge (an awareness of the existence of something)

Knowledge; procedural knowledge; knowledge of task environment

2. Skills (an ability or proficiency acquired through practice)

Skills; skills development; competence; ability; interpersonal skills; practice; skill assessment

3. Social/professional role and identity (A coherent set of behaviours and displayed personal qualities of an individual in a social or work setting)

Professional identity; professional role; social identity; identity; professional boundaries; professional confidence; group identity; leadership; organisational commitment

4. Beliefs about capabilities (Acceptance of the truth, reality or validity about an ability, talent or facility that a person can put to constructive use)

Self-confidence; perceived competence; self-efficacy; perceived behavioural control; beliefs; self-esteem; empowerment; professional confidence

5. Optimism (the confidence that things will happen for the best or that desired goals will be attained)

Optimism; pessimism; unrealistic optimism; identity

6. Beliefs about consequences (acceptance of the truth, reality, or validity about outcomes of a behaviour in a given situation)

Beliefs; outcome expectancies; characteristics of outcome expectancies; anticipated regret; consequents

7. Reinforcement (increasing the probability of a response by arranging a dependent relationship, or contingency, between the response and a given stimulus)

Rewards; incentives; punishment; consequents; reinforcement; contingencies; sanctions

8. Intentions (a conscious decision to perform a behaviour or a resolve to act in a certain way)

Stability of intentions; stages of change model; transtheoretical model and stages of change

9. Goals (mental representations of outcomes or end states that an individual wants to achieve)

Goals (distal/proximal); goal priority; goal/target setting; goals (autonomous/controlled); action planning; implementation intention

10. Memory, attention, and decision processes (the ability to retain information, focus selectively on aspects of the environment and choose between two or more alternatives)

Memory; attention; attention control; decision making; cognitive overload/tiredness

11. Environmental context and resources (any circumstance of a person’s situation or environment that discourages or encourages the development of skills and abilities, independence, social competence and adaptive behaviour)

Environmental stressors; resources/material resources; organisational culture/climate; salient events/critical incidents; person × environment interaction; barriers and facilitators

12. Social influences (Those interpersonal processes that can cause individuals to change their thoughts, feelings, or behaviours)

Social pressure; social norms; group conformity; social comparisons; group norms; social support; power; intergroup conflict; alienation; group identity; modelling

13. Emotion (a complex reaction pattern, involving experiential, behavioural, and physiological elements, by which the individual attempts to deal with a personally significant matter or event)

Fear; anxiety; affect; stress; depression; positive/negative affect; burn-out

14. Behavioural regulation (anything aimed at managing or changing objectively observed or measured actions)

Self-monitoring; breaking habit; action planning