Exploring reasons for usage discontinuation in an internet-delivered stress recovery intervention: A qualitative study.

"Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper."

"Funding The project has received funding from 10.13039/501100008530European Regional Development Fund (project No: 01.2.2-LMT-K-718-03-0072) under grant agreement with the Research Council of Lithuania (LMTLT)."

"The qualitative study is associated with a two-armed randomized controlled trial assessing the effectiveness of a tailored internet-delivered stress recovery intervention. The trial was registered on www.clinicaltrials.gov (NCT05553210) and was approved by Vilnius University Psychology Research Ethics Committee (Reference No. 2021-03-22/61). All participants provided informed consent to take part in both the quantitative and qualitative research at the pre-intervention assessment. The current qualitative study was reported following the COREQ (Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research) guidelines."