Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Virtual Patient Network as a Peer Support Community: Protocol for Social Network Analysis and Content Analysis

Nancy Wu   ¹ , BSc ;   Anne-Sophie Brazeau   ² , RD, PhD ;   Meranda Nakhla   ¹ , MD, MSc ;   Deborah Chan   ¹ , BSc ;   Deborah Da Costa   ¹ , PhD ;   Geetha Mukerji   ³ , MD, MSc ;   Sonia Butalia   ^{4, 5} , MD, MSc ;   Daniele Pacaud   ⁶ , MD ;   Mélanie Henderson   ⁷ , MD, PhD ;   Constadina Panagiotopoulos   ⁸ , MD ;   Elham Rahme   ¹ , PhD ;   Kaberi Dasgupta   ^{1, 9} , BSc, MD, MSc, FRCP

¹ Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada

² School of Human Nutrition, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

³ Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁴ Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

⁵ Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

⁶ Department of Pediatrics, Alberta Children's Hospital, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

⁷ Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

⁸ Division of Endocrinology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

⁹ Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada