Optimizing Health Coaching for Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Using Machine Learning: Model Development and Validation Study

Shuang Di   ^{1, 2} , BSc, MSc ;   Jeremy Petch   ^{1, 3, 4, 5} , MA, HBA, PhD ;   Hertzel C Gerstein   ^{3, 5} , MSc, MD, FRCPC ;   Ruoqing Zhu   ⁶ , PhD ;   Diana Sherifali   ^{3, 7} , PhD, RN, CDE

¹ Centre for Data Science and Digital Health, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada

² Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

³ Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada

⁴ Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁵ Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

⁶ Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States

⁷ School of Nursing, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada