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on the background subject matter before they can
design appropriate questions. It is recommended to
review the reporting standards of the current
available questionnaires, in particular, those of the
benchmark questionnaire(s). If there is no
benchmark questionnaire available on a particular
subject matter, it will be helpful to review other
questionnaires from the same research topic. After
having identified the minimum standard expected
of the questionnaire that measures a similar subject
matter, the researcher will need to add value in
terms of the overall content or measurement scale
of the questionnaire.