Table 1 Relationship between intervention functions of the BCW model and the dimensions of COM-B (in bold)

Education

It can increase both the psychological capacity (for understanding, self-regulation, memory, and attention) and the physical capacity to perform a behavior. It can also promote reflexive motivation.

Training

It can increase psychological capacity, as well as improve «physical opportunity» and automatic motivation through the creation of habits.

Restriction

It can modify the physical and social opportunities of an individual or group.

Environmental restructuring

It can modify the physical and social capacities of individuals, as well as their automatic motivation.

Modeling

Useful for increasing both reflexive motivation and those elements related to social opportunity (being influenced by the social norms of the group).

Enablement

It can increase the physical and psychological capacity, as well as the physical opportunities and the automatic motivation, of an individual, generating «facilitators» in the context for the behavior to be performed.

Coercion

It reduces the physical capacity to act due to the threat this poses to the individual or group.

Incentivization

It increases both physical capacity and extrinsic motivation through the expectation of some physical or social reward. It can also increase intrinsic motivation (habit creation).

Persuasion

It can increase the extrinsic motivation of the individual by appealing to their emotions.