Fig. 1: Data collection timeline, with participant exclusion, and depression and anxiety scores.

Longitudinal data were collected through weekly surveys for a 10-week period. A Drop-outs are presented alongside numbers of exclusions based on duplicate responses and failed attention checks. B Depression and anxiety trends in different subsets of participants. The blue line depicts depression (top panel) and anxiety (bottom panel) scores from participants with valid observations from the first week of data collection (n = 1456). The yellow line depicts scores from participants who successfully completed all 10 weeks of data collection (n = 743). All other lines depict intermediate subsets of participants. The shaded area represents the standard error of the mean. C Depression and D state anxiety scores were measured weekly. Error bars indicate the standard error of the mean.