TDF domain | TDF domain definitiona | Interview questions |
---|---|---|
Knowledge | An awareness of the existence of something | Do you know about the Clinical Practice Guideline for Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence (the “5 A’s”)? |
Skills | An ability or proficiency acquired through practice | How do you currently identify parental or household smokers? What do you do to help them take an active role in reducing their child’s exposure to tobacco smoke? |
Social/professional role and identity | A coherent set of behaviors and displayed personal qualities of an individual in a social or work setting | What aspects of reducing patients’ secondhand smoke exposure do you see as part of your role? Which types of healthcare professionals do you think should be involved in reducing patients’ secondhand smoke exposure? |
Beliefs about capabilities | Acceptance of the truth, reality, or validity about an ability, talent, or facility that a person can put to constructive use | What special skills or expertise, if any, would you need to reduce patients’ secondhand smoke exposure? What makes it easy to counsel parents or household smokers on reducing patients’ secondhand smoke exposure? |
Optimism | The confidence that things will happen for the best or that desired goals will be attained | Currently, how effective are healthcare providers at screening and counseling secondhand smoke-exposed patients and their families? |
Beliefs about consequences | Acceptance of the truth, reality, or validity about outcomes of a behavior in a given situation | What do you think might happen clinically to the patient if healthcare providers do not take steps to screen or counsel patients who are exposed to secondhand smoke? |
Reinforcement | Increasing the probability of a response by arranging a dependent relationship, or contingency, between the response and a given stimulus | Is there anything that you think would encourage or discourage healthcare providers from screening or counseling parental or household smokers? |
Intentions | A conscious decision to perform a behavior or a resolve to act in a certain way | What would help to make screening and counseling a priority to healthcare providers? |
Goals | Mental representations of outcomes or end states that an individual wants to achieve | Is screening and counseling a routine part of your job or is it something you need to take time to think about? Do you screen when you “smell smoke” in the room or if a patient has a specific illness like asthma? |
Memory, attention, and decision processes | The ability to retain information, focus selectively on aspects of the environment, and choose between two or more alternatives | What thought processes might guide your decision to screen for secondhand smoke exposure and provide counseling to patients and their families? |
Environmental context and resources | Any circumstance of a person’s situation or environment that discourages or encourages the development of skills and abilities, independence, social competence, and adaptive behavior | What factors in your working environment do you think influence whether you are able to screen for secondhand smoke exposure and provide counseling to parents and household members? |
Social influences | Those interpersonal processes that can cause individuals to change their thoughts, feelings, or behaviors | If you want to increase the frequency in which healthcare providers screen for secondhand smoke exposure and reduce patient exposure through counseling, how would you do this? |
Emotion | A complex reaction pattern, involving experiential, behavioral, and physiological elements, by which the individual attempts to deal with a personally significant matter or event | No specific interview question. |
Behavioral regulation | Anything aimed at managing or changing objectively observed or measured actions | Are certain incentives or other things needed for screening and counseling patients and their families? |