Barriers to the Use of Web-Based Mental Health Programs for Preventing Depression: 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} , PhD

¹ 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, ON, 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 Epidemology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada