CogReal 2.0

A total of 563 participants were recruited between January 9th, 2023, and April 10th, 2023 (Cohort 1) and July 24th 2024 to December 7th 2024 (Cohort 2), through the Queen’s University Psychology Participant Pool.

Participants completed demographic questionnaires (i.e., age, gender, gender identity, sex assigned at birth, language(s) spoken most often at home, country of primary place of residence, program, and year of study). Participants also completed evidence-based health and wellness questionnaires, including the Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology self-report (QIDS-SR16), the Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI), the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) to assess for autistic traits, the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS) to assess for ADHD traits, and the Montgomery Asberg Depression Rating Scale self-report (MADRS-S) to measure severity of depression symptomatology and the Overall Anxiety Severity and Impairment Scale (OASIS) to measure severity of anxiety symptomatology, the MOS 36-item short form survey (SF-36), the Sheehan Disability Scale (SDS) to assess functional impairment, and the World Health Organization Quality-of-Life Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF) to quantify quality-of-life. These questionnaires were selected based on a widespread, general approach to health and wellness, rather than clinical diagnosis. For the purpose of this dataset, our analysis was limited to the AQ, ASRS, MADRS, OASIS, and WHOQOL-BREF questionnaires which were deemed the most relevant indicators of mental health and well-being. Once participants completed these questionnaires, they were notified via Samply Research, a mobile application, to complete multi-dimensional experience sampling (mDES) questionnaires eight times daily for five consecutive days between 7:00 am and 11:00 pm. Each questionnaire was randomly delivered within this 16-hour time window, with a minimum of 30 minutes in between each notification.

Multi-dimensional Experience Sampling
Participants received notifications on their phones through the Samply Research mobile application. All responses were made in reference to their thoughts, feelings, environment, location, and activities immediately before receiving the notification. This study used a 16-question mDES battery that has been used in prior studies. The mDES questions were always asked first and delivered in a random order. Participants then rated their stress on a 1-to-10 Likert scale. For the purpose of this study, responses to the stress question were not analyzed. Participants then answered questions about their physical and virtual social environment. Finally, participants also indicated the type of physical location they were in and their primary activity. The activity list was developed from the day reconstruction method and modified based on the options in our prior studies.