Peer Support for Women With Heart Disease: Women@Heart

Inclusion Criteria

• •1. Women who have been hospitalized at UOHI in the past year with stable CHD, including: AMI; stable angina with corroborating evidence of CHD; recent CABG; or percutaneous coronary intervention (to allow examination of mechanisms linking the intervention and psychosocial well-being with health and healthcare outcomes);
• •2. Women ≥ 18 years of age (the age of consent in Ontario);
• •3. Women able to read and understand English or French;
• •4. Women who reside in Ontario and are eligible for Ontario Health Insurance Plan (to permit linkage with administrative data housed at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences \[ICES\]);
• •5. Women available to participate over the next 6 months (the intervention and data collection takes place over this time frame -- reducing the probability of missing data);
• •6. Women able to provide informed consent.