Take part · DAQIQ

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I live with diabetes, or care for someone who does

Your experience can help researchers and clinicians design better care. Taking part is always voluntary.

What we ask: Your name, email, phone (optional), preferred language and how you heard about us. We never ask health questions here.
What you receive: An email confirming we have your details and explaining what happens next.
What happens next: When a study opens, we email you its information sheet and link. You decide whether to join, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Registering means we may contact you when a study opens. It does not enrol you in any study.

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I’m a clinician or health professional

Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, diabetes educators and dietitians help us ask the right questions and reach the right people.

What we ask: Your name, role, organisation and how you would like to help.
What you receive: An email confirming we have your message.
What happens next: Dr. Shah or a team member replies within a week to talk about next steps.

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I’m a student

Master’s and PhD students join one long-term program, so every thesis adds to the same body of evidence.

What we ask: Your name, program, university, background, the topic that interests you and a link to your CV.
What you receive: An email confirming we have your application.
What happens next: Shortlisted students are invited to meet Dr. Shah. New students join each September.

Where we are: preparatory year, 2026–27

The LDQ Cohort is preparing for its first survey wave in October 2027. This year we are reviewing the evidence, building and piloting the survey in Arabic and English, seeking ethics approval at HBKU, Hamad Medical Corporation and Primary Health Care Corporation, and setting up four recruitment streams.

Done

Master protocol drafted
Four recruitment streams designed
Three new survey instruments specified

Under way

Ethics submissions to HBKU, HMC and PHCC
Survey build and translation
Pilot with about 100 participants

Read about the Living with Diabetes in Qatar project

Thesis topics for the coming year

Year 1 · Topic 1

Scoping review: digital and AI advice-seeking in diabetes

Map what is known about how people with diabetes use search engines, social media and AI chatbots for advice, and how this relates to distress and self-management, with a focus on the Gulf.

Suits: Nursing, pharmacy, public health, health management

Year 1 · Topic 2

Developing and validating three new survey instruments

Develop the Advice-Source Portfolio, the Digital-Advice Action Checklist and the Advice-Conflict Scale: translation into Arabic, cognitive interviews and first reliability tests.

Suits: Nursing, pharmacy, psychology, statistics

Year 1 · Topic 3

Pilot study of the LDQ survey

Run the pilot with about 100 adults with type 2 diabetes: test survey length, recruitment through each stream and data quality, and report what to change before Wave 1.

Suits: Nursing, pharmacy, public health, health informatics

Year 1 · Topic 4

Clinician Delphi: safe guidance on AI use in diabetes

Bring together doctors, nurses, pharmacists and diabetes educators in Qatar to agree what safe use of AI for diabetes advice looks like.

Suits: Medicine, nursing, pharmacy, health management

What comes next

2027–28Wave 1: baseline profiles for each stream; validation of the new instruments.
2028–29Wave 2: first within-person change over a year.
2029–30Wave 3: three-year trajectories; health literacy and safety.
2030–31Wave 4: delayed effects compared across care settings.
2031–32Wave 5: five-year synthesis and prediction of persistent distress.

Topics in later years

Each year’s students choose a module from a pre-approved library, such as:

Medication beliefs and adherence
Trust in advice from AI, pharmacists and doctors
When advice conflicts: whom patients follow
Sleep and shift work
Stigma and social support
Diabetes burnout
Family and household
A brief safe-use information trial
Clinicians' views of digital advice

PhD and postdoctoral researchers work on AI for diabetes: multimodal prediction, knowledge graphs and efficient AI for health. Contact us with your interests.

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I’m a researcher or an organisation

We work with researchers, healthcare and community organisations, funders and industry who share our aims.

What we ask: Your name, organisation and the kind of collaboration you have in mind.
What you receive: An email confirming we have your message.
What happens next: We reply within a week to set up a conversation.

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I want to follow DAQIQ

Hear when studies open, new resources are published or a talk is announced.

What we ask: Your email address only.
What you receive: Occasional emails with DAQIQ news, new resources and talk announcements.
What happens next: You can unsubscribe at any time, with one click.

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