About the Authors

Yuki Kono

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Population Health and Policy Research Unit, Medical Education Center, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Mai Tanaka-Sahker

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Population Health and Policy Research Unit, Medical Education Center, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Shino Kikuchi

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Graduate School of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, 1 Kawasumi Mizuho-cho, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya, Japan

Yan Luo

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Medical Education and Internationalization, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Yoshida Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Masatsugu Sakata

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya City University, 1 Kawasumi Mizuho-cho, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya, Japan

Ryuhei So

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations CureApp, Inc., Kodenma-Cho YS building floor, 12-5 Nihonbashi Kodenma-Cho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Okayama Psychiatric Medical Center, 3-16 Shikata Honmachi, Kita-ku, Okayama City, Okayama, Japan, Department of Health Promotion and Human Behavior, Graduate School of Medicine/ School of Public Health, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan, Scientific Research WorkS Peer Support Group (SRWS-PSG), Osaka, Japan

Tamara L. Wall

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Toshi A. Furukawa

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Office of Institutional Advancement and Communications, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Ethan Sahker

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sahker.ethan.2e@kyoto-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Population Health and Policy Research Unit, Medical Education Center, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Competing Interests

TAF reports personal fees from Boehringer-Ingelheim, Daiichi Sankyo, DT Axis, Micron, Shionogi, SONY and UpToDate, and a grant from DT Axis and Shionogi, outside the submitted work; In addition, TAF has a patent 7448125 and a pending patent 2022-082495, and has licensed intellectual properties for Kokoro-app to DT Axis. MS is employed in the Department of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, which is an endowment department supported by the City of Nagoya 7448125 and a pending patent 2022-082495, has received a personal fee from SONY outside the submitted work, and has licensed intellectual properties for Kokoro-app to DT Axis. RS is employed by CureApp, Inc. He received grants from the Osake-no-Kagaku Foundation and the Mental Health Okamoto Memorial Foundation. He holds multiple pending patents (JP2022049590A, US20220084673A1, JP2022178215A, JP2022070086, JP2023074128A). All the other authors report no competing interest. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.