Number | MITS element | MITS element description and categories | PETTLEP category | Dominant category found in successful MIb interventions |
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1 | Position | Describes the position of the individual during MI practice as task-specific or not task-specific. | Physical | Task-specific |
2 | Location | Describes the location of MITS as task-specific or not task-specific. | Environment | Task-specific |
3 | Focus | Each task consists of different parts. Focus of the intervention classifies the main focus of task-related activities that had to be imagined: motor, cognitive or strength. | Task | Motor-focused activities |
4 | Order | Describes temporal order of MI and PPc trials. MI trials could have been performed before, between, after or simultaneously with PP. | Timing | MI after PP |
5 | Integration | Describes whether MI practice has been added to PP or embedded dinto PP. | Â | Added |
6 | MI instructions medium | MI instructions can be provided differently through one or more media types. Media type was scored as acoustic, written or visual. More than one media type could be assigned. | Learning | Acoustic |
7 | Instruction mode | In addition to the instruction medium, the mode was classified as live or pre-recorded (for example, using tape or video). | Â | Live |
8 | Supervision | MITS could have been supervised or not supervised by an instructor present during the session. | Â | Supervised |
9 | Directedness | MITS could have been directed dor non-directed when stepwise guidance was present or not. | Â | Non-directed |
10 | Instruction type | The description of MI instructions varied. Instructions could cover detailed descriptions for each part of the task that had to be imagined, simple keywords, or coarse (broad) overall MI instructions. | Â | Detailed |
11 | Instruction individuali-sation | MI instructions could have been individualised to the participant's problems with the task that had to be imagined (tailored), or could have been the same for each participant (standardised). | Â | Standardised |
12 | Familiari-sation | Describe whether study participants had received an MI familiarisation session before the MI intervention began. | Â | No familiarisation |
13 | Change | Indicated whether modification of content, duration or dosage of the MI training occurred, to facilitate the learning process during the MI intervention period. | Â | Â |
14 | MI session | MITS could have been classified as group sessions with more than one person participating in a MITS or as individual sessions with one participant only. | Emotion | Individual |
15 | Eyes | During the MI, the participant's eyes could have been closed or open. In some interventions, participants started with one condition and changed to the other after one or several MITS. | Â | Closed |
16 | Perspective | During the MI, participants could have imagined the task from an internal or external perspective. In some interventions, participants started with one condition and changed to the other after one or several MITS. | Perspective | Internal |
17 | Mode | During the MI, participants could have used a kinaesthetic or visual mode. In some MI interventions, participants started with one condition and changed to the other during one or after several MITS. | Â | Kinaesthetic |