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serve as a guide for undertaking questionnaire

development studies in medical research. Despite

the wide availability of research publications in the

field of questionnaire development, a thorough

discussion of the broader overall scope of the

questionnaire development process particularly

within the medical discipline is still lacking and

can therefore be further enhanced (McColl and

Thomas, 2000; Wilkinson and Birmingham, 2003;

Boynton and Greenhalgh, 2004; Rattray and Jones,

2007). This underpins the purpose of this book,

which aims to fill in the gap by compiling a very

useful list of practical considerations when