Perceived Effectiveness and Motivations for the Use of Web-Based Mental Health Programs: Qualitative Study

Heidi Eccles   ¹ , MSc ;   Molly Nannarone   ¹ , MPH ;   Bonnie Lashewicz   ² , PhD ;   Mark Attridge   ³ , PhD ;   Alain Marchand   ^{4, 5} , PhD ;   Alice Aiken   ⁶ , PhD ;   Kendall Ho   ⁷ , MD ;   Jianli Wang   ^{1, 8, 9, 10} , PhD

¹ Work & Mental Health Research Unit, The Institute of Mental Health Research, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

² Department of Community Health Sciences,, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

³ Attridge Consulting, Inc, Minneapolis, MN, United States

⁴ School of Industrial Relations, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

⁵ Public Health Research Institute, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

⁶ Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

⁷ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

⁸ Shandong Key Laboratory of Behavioral Medicine, School of Mental Health, Jining Medical University, Jining, China

⁹ School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

¹⁰ Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada