About the Authors

Danielle B. Rice

Affiliations Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Brett D. Thombs

brett.thombs@mcgill.ca

Affiliations Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, School of Nursing, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Competing Interests

All authors declare no support from any organisation for the submitted work. BDT has received an Investigator Salary Award from the Arthritis Society, outside of the submitted work; DBR has received a CIHR Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship, outside of the submitted work; there are no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DBR BDT. Analyzed the data: DBR BDT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DBR BDT. Wrote the paper: DBR BDT.