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Table 1 Outline of self-efficacy-enhancing intervention components, strategies, and specific techniques

From: Effectiveness of self-efficacy-enhancing interventions on rehabilitation following total hip replacement: a randomized controlled trial with six-month follow-up

Components

Strategies

Specific techniques

Individual past experience

Providing knowledge of functional exercise

Setting achievable goals

Providing positive feedback

Educating participants in rehabilitation exercise, complications, and disease

Encouraging participants to observe and record their exercise behavior

Conferring with participants to develop functional exercise goals at different stages, making plans on when, where, and how to engage in regular physical activities

Identifying challenges of postoperative rehabilitation through discussion

Providing positive feedback on accomplishments

Vicarious experience

Sharing cases of successful rehabilitation

Sharing previous success stories to build confidence

Introducing the successful experiences of others to motivate participants to adhere to their rehabilitation program in the following months

Verbal persuasion

Persuasion

Giving verbal encouragement and compliment

Describing the benefits of physical activities

Asserting that participants have the ability to self-manage

Commending participants upon their efforts and giving verbal encouragement

Reinforcing participants’ past and present successes or accomplishments

Psychological monitoring

Avoiding negative emotional stimulation

Helping participants to seek social support

Assessing participants’ expression of anxiety and depression

Identifying individual barriers to, and resources for, physical activity

Providing strategies for dealing with barriers and coping in the future (post-surgery; the significance of social support)