Questionnaire based studies have a significant impact in biological)medicine research field involving human subjects. But without a properly validated one, it has no value.
There are several useful sources on this topic in the survey literature, including Fowler, Survey Research Methods, and Dillman et al., Internet, Mail, and Mixed-Mode Surveys: The Tailored Design Method.
Article Guidelines for developing, translating, and validating a que...
, https://www.joe.org/joe/2007february/tt2.phpThe aforementioned papers should give you a clue.
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you can refer to: Streiner, D. L. & Norman, G. R. (2008). Health measurement scales: a practical guide to their development and use.
Basically the process would be:
1. questionnaire development
2. content validation by expert
3. face validation among target population
4. construct validation
Doing a full-scale survey isn't something that can be covered in a handful of articles. It sounds like you are frustrated by the amount of work involved, but creating a high quality piece of survey research is indeed a lot of work, so reading a book on the subject is a reasonable way to get started.
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