Celebrating the dQ&A Community
What is the dQ&A Patient Community?
Over the course of 15 years, we’ve built a strong patient community to answer all manner of important diabetes questions.
We designed and recruited very carefully, so they deliver speedy, reliable insights.
Over the years, our panel members have answered over 400,000 surveys.
“I believe I am contributing in a small way to the development of new technologies and drugs.”
“The payments are nice but they aren't my only motivation.”
“The survey allows me to express how I feel about being diabetic, and the issues that it brings to my everyday life.”
“The main reason I participate in the survey is to make my voice known.”
“Type 1 is a 24/7 disease. There are no vacations or breaks dealing with the disease. I believe the surveys have given me hope in the back of mind.”
“Carrying the burden of type 1 diabetes is otherwise a silent journey of day-to-day management. When I receive your surveys, a small part of me feels heard.”
“It is really a great feeling knowing that what I share will help others benefit from new therapies including medical devices.”
“I participate because it helps me to feel that I am an active member of the diabetes community and I feel that my answers can help shape the course of treatment in the near future.”
Real Quotes from a 2025 survey of n=5,133 people in the dQ&A Community.
What Makes the dQ&A Community Special?
- Proprietary: Business leaders and researchers can only access the community by working with dQ&A
- Deep and Wide: Our panel currently consists of 20,000 people, who we survey multiple times per year. We’ve oversampled specific segments to obtain great statistics
- International: Includes nine countries (USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden)
- Trusted: Because we don’t recruit openly, hand pick every member, and screen every survey they take over time, we can be certain that our members are genuine
- Motivated: Our survey takers have response rates typically >50%, and survey lengths double that of consumer panels. They are highly loyal, with an average tenure over five years.
- Representative: Are highly representative of the patient population across many measures
- Powerful: With higher quality, higher response rates and longer survey times, our community is much more powerful than open market panels, saving time and money, and delivering peace of mind
What Are the Alternatives?
If you purchase patient sample on the open market, or your research vendor does – then buyer beware!
Not only are response rates low, and it is hard to get respondents to engage, there is strong evidence of widespread AI-powered fraud.
All this makes completing a reliable survey with good statistics much harder, and it’s accompanied by more anxiety about quality.
At dQ&A, life is different. We have zero recruiting time, and field large patient surveys for 2-3 days at most, thanks to our remarkable community.
To Learn More About Addressing Fraud in Patient Research, click here.
“dQ&A is very different.It's the one positive survey company I trust. I cannot say that about any other survey I've seen for T1Ds.”
“I take the surveys to improve my awareness from a credible source that is not social media. Doctors are so busy and so limited in patient education that a resource like this is beneficial.”
“This company asks questions and shares information that is so very helpful to many of us with diabetes. I feel that my opinions matter here.”
“Oui, dQ&A se distingue des autres sociétés qui réalisent des enquêtes car j'ai vraiment l'impression d'être "écouté" et que mes réponses peuvent aider un minimums à faire progresser vos recherches.”
“Partecipo ai sondaggi perché li considero un’occasione per esprimere il mio punto di vista, condividere la mia esperienza e avere un ruolo attivo nel miglioramento della community e dei progetti futuri.”
“You ask good questions You make us think. Many times you talk about diabetes improvements that I haven't even heard of. And I'm excited to try them when they become available.”
“C'est la seule qui nous propose réellement de faire partie de la recherche en donnant notre avis sur de futurs dispositifs. On se sent vraiment intégrés dans la recherche ! Les autres ne proposent pas ça, ou alors les questions sont vraiment "générales" et on ne voit pas en quoi ça va avoir un impact.”
“It is different for sure. Certainly much longer; however, I found that questions here are more specific, touching each problem with lots of details, asking to explain provided point of view.”
Real Quotes from a 2025 survey of n=5,133 people in the dQ&A Community.
More About Our Patient Community
Open market consumer panels will turn over their survey respondents in a matter of months. The dQ&A community is completely different. Thanks to their loyalty, we can follow patient journeys over many years.
These charts shows quintiles of longevity for active members of our United States panel. We’re proud to say that the top quintile has an average tenure of 12.9 years, and the median member has been with us for over 5 years.
When asked for the reasons why they take surveys with dQ&A, only 24% of our community members mention that they do it for the remuneration. Other reasons, such as assisting the diabetes community, and helping manufacturers, are nearly as common.
Another reason that the dQ&A Community is special is their strong preference for working with us. Nearly 30% of our panelists don’t take surveys with any other company. The remainder are overwhelmingly positive about their experience with dQ&A.
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Contact us to see if dQ&A can help you address your critical business questions.
