Principal Findings and Comparison With Prior Work
depression, anxiety
Consistent with findings from other studies, we found that participants rated the intervention in positive terms and found it helpful, for example, in awareness and feeling supported [In developing these types of interventions, it seems important to provide survivors’ stories, for example, through videos and third-party stories, and contact options such as a chat or forum. However, making these features available does not necessarily translate into their active use. Nevertheless, passive use, such as solely reading the posts of other users, could also be a valuable source of support for some IPVA survivors [According to Rempel et al [Taken together, eHealth interventions can offer diversified help to survivors of IPVA in different phases. Although web-based means and interventions could never and should never replace face-to-face care, they stand out because of their unique characteristics that can be a valuable addition to regular help, such as anonymity, low threshold, flexibility, and client autonomy. They can be a stepping stone to care, a bridge during a waiting-list period, an additional form of support simultaneously or alternately to face-to-face care, or a form of aftercare. Web-based help has the ability to reach a larger group of survivors and can be used to meet certain needs, for example, contact with fellow survivors, the option to reread information or further delve into certain topics, and autonomy in the professional help trajectory and emotional and psychological processing [Looking at the results of this qualitative evaluation, the SAFE eHealth intervention had a positive impact on most of the female IPVA survivors. We did not find significant between-group differences over time for self-efficacy, depression, and anxiety upon quantitative evaluation [