Supporting and Incentivizing Peer Leaders for an Internet-Based Private Peer Community for Youths With Type 1 Diabetes: Social Network and Directed Content Analysis

Nancy Wu   ¹ , MSc ;   Susan Joanne Wang   ¹ , MSc ;   Anne-Sophie Brazeau   ² , PhD ;   Deborah Chan   ¹ , BSc ;   Joseph Mussa   ¹ , MSc ;   Meranda Nakhla   ¹ , MD, MSc ;   Mariam Elkeraby   ^{1, 3} , BA ;   Maryna Ell   ^{1, 3} , BScN ;   Melinda Prevost   ^{1, 3} , MSc ;   Laurie Lepine   ^{1, 3} , DEC ;   Constadina Panagiotopoulos   ^{4, 5} , MD ;   Geetha Mukerji   ⁶ , MD, MSc ;   Sonia Butalia   ^{7, 8} , MD, MSc ;   Mélanie Henderson   ^{9, 10, 11} , MD, PhD ;   Deborah Da Costa   ^{1, 12} , PhD ;   Elham Rahme   ^{1, 12} , PhD ;   Kaberi Dasgupta   ^{1, 12} , MD, MSc

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

² School of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, McGill University, Ste Anne de Bellevue, QC, Canada

³ Patient partner, Montreal, QC, Canada

⁴ Endocrinology & Diabetes Unit, British Columbia Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

⁵ Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

⁶ Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Health Sciences Building, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁷ Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, Health Sciences Centre, Foothills Campus, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

⁸ Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

⁹ Department of Pediatrics, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada

¹⁰ Centre de Recherche CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal, QC, Canada

¹¹ School of Public Health, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada

¹² Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada