About the Authors

Ambra Mara Giovannetti

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Andrea Giordano

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

andrea.giordano@istituto-besta.it

Affiliations Neurology, Public Health and Disability Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy, Unit of Neuroepidemiology, Fondazione IRRCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy

Edoardo Donarelli

Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Giulia Di Domenico

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Giampaolo Brichetto

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

Affiliations Scientific Research Area, Italian Multiple Sclerosis Foundation (FISM), Genoa, Italy, AISM Rehabilitation Service, Italian Multiple Sclerosis Society, Genoa, Italy

Eleonora Cocco

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

Affiliations Department of Medical Science and Public Health, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy, Multiple Sclerosis Center, ASL Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

Francesco Patti

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies “GF Ingrassia”, University of Catania, Catania, Italy, UOS Multiple Sclerosis, Neurology Clinic, “G. Rodolico-San Marco” University Hospital, Catania, Italy

Rachele Paolucci

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

Affiliation Italian Multiple Sclerosis Society (AISM), Genoa, Italy

Alessandra Solari

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

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

Silvia Testa

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

Deceased.

Affiliation Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Aosta Valley, Aosta, Italy

Rosalba Rosato

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

on behalf of the INITIALISE project

Membership of the INITIALISE project is provided in the Acknowledgements.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.