About the Authors

Ambra Mara Giovannetti

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

ambra.giovannetti@istituto-besta.it

Affiliations Unit of Neuroepidemiology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, Unit of Neuroimmunology and Neuromuscular Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy

Rui Quintas

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Unit of Neuroimmunology and Neuromuscular Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy, Clinical and Experimental Epileptology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy

Irene Tramacere

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Research and Clinical Development, Scientific Directorate, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy

Andrea Giordano

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Unit of Neuroepidemiology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Paolo Confalonieri

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Unit of Neuroimmunology and Neuromuscular Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy

Michele Messmer Uccelli

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Italian Multiple Sclerosis Society and Research Foundation (FISM), Genoa, Italy

Alessandra Solari

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Unit of Neuroepidemiology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy

Kenneth Ian Pakenham

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Competing Interests

AS reports grants from Fondazione Italiana Sclerosi Multipla (FISM), during the conduct of the study; personal fees from Biogen Idec, Merck Serono, Novartis, Almirall, and Excemed. As a staff member of the University of Queensland and co-Author of the READY program, KP receives royalties from UniQuest for commercial (not research) licensing arrangements entered into by third parties who want to deliver the program. PC acted as an Advisory Board member of Biogen and Novartis; received funding for traveling from Biogen, Merck, Teva, Novartis; received honoraria for speaking or writing from Biogen and Novartis. He received support for research project by Novartis and Merk and is involved as principal investigator or co-investigator in clinical trials for Teva, Novartis, Biogen and Merk. RQ received funding for conducting research and clinical projects from AIM Education (Novartis) and Fondazione Serono (Merck) in 2019. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data.