Innovating Support For Women Who Experience Intimate Partner Violence And Abuse : The development, implementation, and evaluation of the self-support eHealth intervention SAFE

This thesis describes the studies conducted into the development and evaluation of the Dutch SAFE eHealth intervention for women who experience(d) intimate partner violence and abuse (IPVA). IPVA is a type of domestic violence and abuse (DVA) that occurs frequently in society but that is often accompanied by stigma, complicating the help seeking process. With the internet being able to offer anonymity and easy, low threshold accessibility, an online platform could be a suitable means of reaching women who experience IPVA and support them, for example in help-seeking. To this aim, the SAFE intervention was established. The phases of development, implementation, and evaluation of the SAFE intervention are described in the chapters of this thesis (Figure 1). Furthermore, based on data from the SAFE project, we paid specific attention to a lesser acknowledged type of IPVA: economic abuse.