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Table 4 Configurations of intervention components associated with reductions in meat consumption, purchase, or selection in QCA

From: Interventions targeting conscious determinants of human behaviour to reduce the demand for meat: a systematic review with qualitative comparative analysis

Non-tailored environmental information

Raw coverage: 25%, Internal consistency: 100%

 Outcome:

(1) Reduction in intended consumption or purchase/selection of meat in virtual environments

 In the presence of:

(2) Non-tailored (3) information about environmental issues (4) targeting healthy individuals

 In the absence of:

Information about (5) health, (6) socio-economic, (7) animal welfare issues, (8) multiple consequences of eating meat, and (9) implicitly highlighting animal suffering, (10) self-monitoring, (11) goal-setting, and (12) lifestyle counselling

 Regardless of:

(13) Provision of practical strategies to eat less meat

Non-tailored health information with practical strategies to eat less meat

Raw coverage: 8%, Internal consistency: 100%

 Outcome:

(1) Reduction in intended consumption or purchase/selection of meat in virtual environments

 In the presence of:

(2) Non-tailored (3) information about health issues (4) with practical strategies to eat less meat (5) targeting healthy individuals

 In the absence of:

Information about (6) environmental, (7) socio-economic, (8) animal welfare issues, (9) multiple consequences of eating meat, and (10) implicitly highlighting animal suffering, (11) self-monitoring, (12) goal-setting, and (13) lifestyle counselling

Self-monitoring and goal-setting interventions

Raw coverage: 8%, Internal consistency: 100%

 Outcome:

(1) Reduction in actual meat consumption, purchase, or selection

 In the presence of:

(2) Non-tailored (3) self-monitoring and (4) goal-setting interventions (5) targeting healthy individuals

 In the absence of:

Information about (6) health (7) environmental, (8) socio-economic, (9) animal welfare issues, (10) multiple consequences of eating meat, and (11) implicitly highlighting animal suffering, (12) practical strategies to eat less meat, and (13) lifestyle counselling

Lifestyle-counselling for people with, or at increased risk of ill-health

Raw coverage: 17%, Internal consistency: 100%

 Outcome:

(1) Reduction in actual meat consumption, purchase, or selection

 In the presence of:

(2) Tailored (3) lifestyle counselling (4) targeting people with ill health or at increased risk thereof, and including (5) information on health, (6) self-monitoring, (7) goal-setting, and (8) practical strategies to eat less meat

 In the absence of:

Information about (9) environmental, (10) animal welfare, (11) socio-economic issues, (12) multiple consequences of eating meat, and (13) implicitly highlighting animal suffering

  1. Configurations of intervention components associated with reductions in meat consumption, purchase, or selection. The overall solution covers 58% of the 24 interventions included in QCA and associated with reductions in meat consumption, purchase, or selection in all comparisons in which these configurations were evaluated. Raw coverage refers to the percentage of interventions associated with reductions in meat consumption, purchase, or selection covered by an intervention configuration. Raw consistency refers to the percentage of interventions within a configuration being associated with the aforementioned outcomes