A Chatbot-Based Version of a World Health Organization–Validated Intervention (Self-Help Plus) for Stress Management in Pregnant Women: Protocol for a Usability Study

Silvia Rizzi   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Valentina Fietta   ^{1, 2 *} , MD ;   Lorenzo Gios   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Stefania Poggianella   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Maria Chiara Pavesi   ^{3 *} , MD ;   Chiara De Luca   ^{3 *} , MD ;   Debora Marroni   ^{4 *} , MD ;   Claudia Paoli   ^{5 *} , MD ;   Anna Gianatti   ^{5 *} , MD ;   Barbara Burlon   ^{5 *} , MD ;   Vanda Chiodega   ^{5 *} , MD ;   Barbara Endrizzi   ^{5 *} , MD ;   Angela Giordano   ^{5 *} , MD ;   Francesca Biagioli   ^{5 *} , MD ;   Veronica Albertini   ^{5 *} , MD ;   Marianna Purgato   ^{6 *} , PhD ;   Corrado Barbui   ^{6 *} , PhD ;   Chiara Guella   ^{4 *} , MD ;   Erik Gadotti   ^{3 *} , MD ;   Stefano Forti   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Fabrizio Taddei   ⁵ , MD

¹ Digital Health Research, Centre for Digital Health & Wellbeing, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy

² Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

³ Istituto Pavoniano Artigianelli, Trento, Italy

⁴ Operating Unit of Psychology, Healthcare Trust of the Autonomous Province of Trento, Trento, Italy

⁵ Transmural Obstetric Gynecological Department, Healthcare Trust of the Autonomous Province of Trento, Trento, Italy

⁶ World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health and Service Evaluation, Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, Section of Psychiatry, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

*these authors contributed equally