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Table 2 Interview excerpts supporting key factors related to category 1 ‘characteristics of individual or team conducting implementation’

From: Identifying and selecting implementation theories, models and frameworks: a qualitative study to inform the development of a decision support tool

Interview excerpts reflective of factor 1 ‘attitudes’:

… sometimes the people you work with don’t always appreciate trying to stay true to a theory, model or framework or not always understand the value of it and how there are methods to KT [knowledge translation] and it’s not something that we just do on a whim.” (ID22)

“What I am appreciating more and more, is that there needs to be a theoretical basis for a lot of the things that we do … and it doesn’t have to be one size fits all because there are different models and frameworks and theories applied to different interventions or problems.” (ID8)

Interview excerpts reflective of factor 2 ‘knowledge’:

“You sort of get familiar enough with certain frameworks, and then it’s just much easier to write about them and it’s much easier to build upon your previous work.” (ID2)

… if the only way that they can kind of access and engage with these frameworks is by going into large voluminous quantities of the research literature, then there is a disincentive to use it.” (ID11)

Interview excerpts reflective of factor 3 ‘training’:

“I enjoy the TDF [Theoretical Domains Framework] and the Knowledge-to-Action Cycle because I’ve been to two workshops on it by people who use it regularly and have written about it, so you get a much better understanding and you can play around with the concepts before you go deep into a research project. Whereas with Normalization Process Theory, I haven’t had any instruction on it and that might make me feel quite differently about it.” (ID6)

“I don’t know if I know anyone who’s working in KT [Knowledge Translation] that has more than a week or two of formal training to do with theories, concepts, strategies and what’s evidence-based and that really delves into all aspects of KT.” (ID21)

“Healthcare practitioners aren’t necessarily given education on theories of change. So, when they’re asked to adopt or to look more deeply into a theory of behaviour change … they don’t consider themselves to have enough expertise to use them.” (ID24)