Participants
anxiety
RECRUITMENT, BROWN
The sample consisted of 14,260 participants. Potential participants were recruited by Sharecare Inc., utilizing Sharecare’s QualityHealth recruitment funnel which individuals opt into based on health conditions that are of interest to them. Email recruitment invitations were sent to those indicating interest in receiving health information specific to anxiety. Participants were considered eligible upon meeting the following inclusion criteria: (1) were at least 18 years of age; (2) Lived in the United States or Canada. Two-hundred and fifty subjects were not retained due to providing data in textboxes that were irrelevant to the question posed (e.g. checking ‘other’ in the gender category and providing the name of a city in the corresponding textbox) 14,010 participants were retained for inclusion in data analysis. These participants were on average 55 years old, with 3565 Males, 10,435 Females, and 10 individuals who selected other. Due to the de-identified nature of this study’s data (online survey completion), this study was deemed exempt from oversight by the Brown University Institutional Review Board and informed consent obtention in accordance to federal legislature (US Department of Health and Human Services for the protection of human subjects Sect. 45 CFR 46.104). The experimental procedure is fully described in the Supplementary Materials Section.