Table 1 COM-B Analysis of parents’ portion control behaviours
From: Big hearts, small hands: a focus group study exploring parental food portion behaviours
COM-B | TDF | Topic schedule |
|---|---|---|
Psychological capability | Knowledge | Parents' knowledge of appropriate portion sizes for children’s meals Parents’ knowledge of what children’s daily food intake should be (how do they judge what is enough/too much?) |
Psychological capability | Cognitive and interpersonal skills | Parents’ skills in talking to their children as well as family members about making changes to their portion sizes |
Psychological capability | Memory, Attention and Decision Making Processes | Parents’ awareness of portion size guidance |
Psychological capability | Behavioural Regulation | Parents’ monitoring of children’s portion sizes (includes size of portions and frequency of consumption) |
Psychological Opportunity | Environmental Context and resources | Objects in parents’ environment to assess portion sizes |
Social Opportunity | Social Influences | Other people in parents’ environment that either hinder or enable age appropriate portion sizes |
Reflective Motivation | Beliefs about capabilities | Parents’ beliefs about capabilities in reducing children’s portion sizes. |
Reflective motivation | Beliefs about consequences | Parents’ beliefs about the consequences of childhood overweight |
Automatic motivation | Emotion | Parents’ emotions related to portion control |
Automatic motivation | Reinforcement | Parents’ eating habits |
N/A | N/A | Are there any other barriers to portion control within the home environment that we haven’t already talked about? |