User Acceptance of an Online-Intervention for Improving Depressive Symptoms in Adults with Obesity Results of a Pilot Study

Objectives Investigating the user acceptance and associated factors regarding the use of an unguided online-intervention in people with obesity and comorbid depressive symptoms. Methods Quantitative longitudinal pilot study with regard to user acceptance (Baseline before access to online-intervention; Follow-up after 3 months) with n = 46 subjects. Results Moderate (usefulness, ease of use, satisfaction) to high (ease of learning) user acceptance was reported with regard to the online-intervention. Uptake-rates were 76.1 %, completion-rates were 22.9 %. Positive associations were found e. g. for people receiving invalidity pension and personality traits. Conclusions Online-interventions for people with obesity and comorbid depressive symptoms represent a complementary treating component. Associated factors of user acceptance should be taken into account when implementing online-interventions to support high fitting accuracy and to increase the benefit for program users.