An Internet-Based Counseling Intervention With Email Reminders that Promotes Self-Care in Adults With Chronic Heart Failure: Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol

Robert P Nolan   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Ada YM Payne   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Heather Ross   ^{2, 3} , MD ;   Michel White   ⁴ , MD ;   Bianca D'Antono   ^{4, 5} , PhD ;   Sammy Chan   ^{6, 7} , MD ;   Susan I Barr   ⁸ , PhD ;   Femida Gwadry-Sridhar   ⁹ , PhD ;   Anil Nigam   ⁴ , MD ;   Sylvie Perreault   ¹⁰ , BPharm, PhD ;   Michael Farkouh   ^{2, 3} , MD ;   Michael McDonald   ^{2, 3} , MD ;   Jack Goodman   ^{3, 11} , PhD ;   Scott Thomas   ¹² , PhD ;   Shelley Zieroth   ¹³ , PhD ;   Debra Isaac   ¹⁴ , MD ;   Paul Oh   ¹⁵ , MD ;   Miroslaw Rajda   ¹⁶ , MD ;   Maggie Chen   ¹⁷ , PhD ;   Gunther Eysenbach   ¹⁸ , MD, MPH, FACMI ;   Sam Liu   ^{1, 2} , MSc, PhD Candidate ;   Ahmad Zbib   ¹⁹ , MD

¹ Behavioral Cardiology Research Unit, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

² Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

³ Division of Cardiology, Peter Munk Cardiac Center, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁴ Centre de Recherche, Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

⁵ Département de Psychologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

⁶ Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

⁷ Department of Cardiology, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada

⁸ Department of Food, Nutrition, and Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

⁹ Department of Medical Health Informatics, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, ON, Canada

¹⁰ Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

¹¹ Division of Cardiology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹² Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹³ Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

¹⁴ Cardiac Transplant Clinic, Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, Calgary, AB, Canada

¹⁵ Department of Cardiac Rehabilitation, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹⁶ Division of Cardiology, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Center, Halifax, NS, Canada

¹⁷ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹⁸ Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹⁹ Consumer eHealth, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada