Table 1 Steps for designing interventions to change community pharmacists’ behaviour in mental health care[12]

Step 1: Identify the target behaviours of pharmacists

Answer the questions: Who needs to do what differently, when, where and how?

Step 2: Understand the target behaviours of pharmacists in community pharmacy contexts

Answer the questions: Why do we do what we do? What needs to change to do things differently? Conduct a COM-B assessment (Figure 2).

Step 3: Consider the full range of interventions functions

Use the Behaviour Change Wheel (Figure 3).

Step 4: Identify specific behaviour change techniques

Use behaviour change techniques based on published evidence, if available, and tacit knowledge to support their use in changing the behaviours of pharmacists.