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be required to undergo further diagnostic tests for

confirmation. This type of screening questionnaire

is important for complementing the existing

diagnostic procedures.

This type of questionnaire is also related to

facts, science or knowledge. The outcome has to

be scientific with a list of distinct criteria and

which must be answered in a binary manner such

as ‘diseased’ or ‘not diseased’ (i.e ‘depressed’

versus ‘not depressed’). All the questions posed by

this type of questionnaire will need to link and

directly correspond to the outcome. Hence, the

responses to all the questions will have to be