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Table 1 Domains from the TDF [30] and their descriptions adapted from Francis et al. [47]

From: Intermittent auscultation versus continuous fetal monitoring: exploring factors that influence birthing unit nurses’ fetal surveillance practice using theoretical domains framework

Knowledge

Existing procedural knowledge, knowledge about guidelines, knowledge about evidence and how that influences what the participants do

Skills

Competence and ability about the procedural techniques required to perform the behaviour

Social/professional role and identity

Is the behaviour something the participant is supposed to do or someone else’s? (When discussing ‘we’/the collective) Boundaries between professional groups

Beliefs about capabilities

Perceptions about competence and confidence in doing the behaviour

Beliefs about consequences

Perceptions about outcomes and advantages and disadvantages of performing the behaviour or pervious experiences that have influenced whether the behaviour is performed or not

Motivation and goals

Priorities, importance, commitment to a certain course of actions or behaviours Intentions

Memory, attention and decision processes

Attention control, decision-making, memory, i.e. is the target behaviour problematic because people simply forget?

Environmental context/resources

How factors related to the setting in which the behaviour is performed (e.g. people, organisational, cultural, political, physical and financial factors) influence the behaviour

Social influences

External influence from other people, views of other professions, patients and families, doing what you are told and how that influences what you do

Emotion

How feelings, affect (positive or negative) may influence behaviour

Behavioural regulation

Ways of doing things that relate to pursuing and achieving desired goals, standards or targets

Strategies the participants have in place to help them perform the behaviour

Strategies the participants would like to have in place to help them

Nature of the behaviours

What is the participant’s history of the behaviour, have they any experience (done it often or not at all in the past), is the behaviour routine or automatic?