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Table 1 Studies included in the review data set

From: Effects of habit formation interventions on physical activity habit strength: meta-analysis and meta-regression

Authors

(Date) and country

Sample characteristics

Delivery way and delivery setting

Habit measurement, Total number of measurements and its time point

BCTs coding

Piao et al

(2020) [19]

South Korea

N = 106; office workers

Mobile online chatbot

Volunteer

SRHI;

4 measurement point: 0–4 week

Habit formation, action planning, prompts/cues, Self-monitoring of behavior, Self-reward, Material reward (behaviour), Social reward, Goal setting (behavior)

Weyland et al

(2022) [35]

Germany

N = 132; participants of weekly exercise courses at a German university

Offline training

Volunteer

SRHI;

10 measurement point: form week1-week10

Social support (emotional), Social reward, Prompts/cues, Self-reward

Carels et al. (2014) [30]

USA

N = 59; overweight and obese adults (body mass index ≥ 27 kg/m2)

Offline training

Volunteer

SRHI;

3 measurement point: at baseline, 12 week and 9-month

Habit formation, habit reversal, restructuring the physical environment, action planning, problem solving, nonspecific reward, avoidance/reducing exposure to cues for the behavior, prompt/cues, comparative imagining of future outcomes, social support (unspecified), self-monitoring of behavior

Storm et al. (2016) [31]

Germany, Netherlands

N = 790; people who want to reduce their cardiovascular risk;

Online web-based intervention

Volunteer

SRHI;

3 measurement point: baseline; 8 week and 12 week

Goal setting (behavior), problem solving, action planning, review behavioral goals, feedback on behavior, social support (unspecified), instruction on how to perform behavior, information on health consequences, social comparison, habit formation

Kaushal et al. (2018) [32]

Canada

N = 97; inactive new gym members;

Offline workshop and a booster telephone follow-up

Volunteer

SRBAI

2 measurement point: at baseline and 8 weeks

Habit formation, information about antecedents, action planning, prompts/cues, self-monitoring of behavior, problem solving, self-reward, behavioral practice/rehearsal

Western et al. (2022) [34]

UK

N = 51; low to moderately active adults (PA level < 2.0)

Online web-based platform

Volunteer

SRHI; 3 measurement point: at baseline, 6- and 12-week

Biofeedback, Feedback on outcome(s) of behaviour, Self-monitoring of behaviour, action planning, Discrepancy between current behaviour and goal, Goal setting (behaviour), Goal setting (outcome)

White et al. (2017) [36]

UK

N = 91; older adults age 60–74 years, retired, and ≥ 6 h/day leisure sitting

An information booklet

Primary health care

SRHI; 3 measurement point: at baseline, 8-week and 12-week

Goal setting (behavior), action planning, self-monitoring of behavior, self monitoring of outcomes of behavior, instructions on how to perform a behavior, information about health consequences, demonstration of the behavior, behavioral substitution, habit formation, habit reversal, graded tasks, restructuring the physical environment, adding objects to the environment, framing/reframing

Rhodes et al. (2021) [33]

Canada

N = 102; parents whose children (aged 6–12 years) who did not meet international PA guidelines of at least 60 min of MVPA per day

Offline training

Volunteer

SRBAI

4 measurement point: baseline, 6-week, 13-week, and 26-week

Instruction on how to perform the behaviour, Information about health consequences, Problem solving, action planning, Feedback on behaviour

Fournier et al. (2018) [28]

France

N = 49; cardiovascular patients

Offline training and phone call interview

Volunteer

SRBAI

5 measurement point: baseline, 5-, 7-, 9-, 12-month

Instructions on how to perform a behavior, Demonstration of the behavior, behavioral practice/rehearsal, habit formation, action planning, prompts/cues, social support (practical)

Fleig et al

(2013) [29]

Germany

N = 1166; individuals in cardiac and orthopedic rehabilitation

Telephone-delivery

Primary health care

SRHI; 2 measurement point: at baseline and 18-month

Goal setting (outcome), action planning, focus on past success, self-monitoring of behavior, instructions on how to perform a behavior, demonstration of the behavior, behavioral practice/rehearsal, social support (unspecified)

  1. BCT Behavior change techniques, SRHI Self-report habit index, SRBAI Self-report behavioral automaticity index