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Table 4.1: Recommended steps for questionnaire
                         development

        Steps                Details
        Determine the        Questionnaire to collect
        overall scope of a   facts/information
        questionnaire and
        its target           The scope can be set
        population           based on suitability of
                             subjects’ characteristics,
        “The target          logistical or other
        population can be    scientific considerations
        any sub-population  of the underlying subject
        such as patients     matter. Say, for example,
        (for which the       in a questionnaire that
        diagnosis of a       aims to collect data from
        disease will be      a patient’s medical
        established),        record, the information
        employees, or        needed to fill in this
        healthy population.  questionnaire may
        The scope of the     include demographic
        questionnaire shall   profiles of subjects, and
        depend on the        their medical history,
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