Table 5 Behaviour Change Techniques (BCTs) with theoretical links to key Mechanism of Actions (MoAs) for women accessing contraception

Information about health consequences

4

Information about social and environmental consequences

3

Pros and cons

3

Credible source

2

Salience of consequences

2

Social support (practical)

2

Adding objects to the environment

1

Anticipated regret

1

Avoidance/reducing exposure to cues for the behaviour

1

Biofeedback

1

Comparative imagining of future outcomes

1

Framing/reframing

1

Incentive (outcome)

1

Information about antecedents

1

Information about emotional consequences

1

Information about others’ approval

1

Instruction on how to perform behaviour

1

Material incentive (behaviour)

1

Prompts/cues

1

Remove aversive stimulus

1

Restructuring the physical environment

1

Restructuring the social environment

1

Reward (outcome)

1

Social comparison

1

Social reward

1

Social support (unspecified)

1