| Participants were randomly sampled from among the monitors of the Internet survey company and stratified according to age, sex (in similar proportions), and residential area. |
| Please choose one appropriate answer to each of the following questions. |
| Q1. Please let me know your sex. (single selection) |
1. Male |
| 2. Female |
| Q2. Please let me know your age. |
( )-years-old |
| Q3. Please let me know your living prefecture. (single selection) |
1. Hokkaido |
2. Aomori |
3. Iwate |
4. Miyagi |
5. Akita |
| 6. Yamagata |
7. Fukushima |
8. Ibaragi |
9. Ibaraki |
10. Gunma |
| 11. Saitama |
12. Chiba |
13. Tokyo |
14. Kanagawa |
15. Niigata |
| 16. Toyama |
17. Ishikawa |
18. Fukui |
19. Yamanashi |
20. Nagano |
| 21. Gifu |
22. Shizuoka |
23. Aichi |
24. Mie |
25. Shiga |
| 26. Kyoto |
27. Osaka |
28. Hyogo |
29. Nara |
30. Wakayama |
| 31. Tottori |
32. Shimane |
33. Okayama |
34. Hiroshima |
35. Yamaguchi |
| 36. Tokushima |
37. Kagawa |
38. Ehime |
39. Kochi |
40. Fukuoka |
| 41. Saga |
42. Nagasaki |
43. Kumamoto |
44. Ooita |
45. Miyagi |
| 46. Kagoshima |
47. Okinawa |
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| Please choose one appropriate answer to the following questions. |
| Q1. Are you married? (single selection) |
1. Unmarried |
| 2. Married (separated/widowed) |
| Q2. Do you have children? (single selection) |
1. Living with children |
| 2. We don’t live together, but we have children |
| 3. No children |
| Q3. Please let me know your occupation. (single selection) |
1. Working at a company |
| 2. Company management |
| 3. Civil servant, teacher, non-profit organization employee |
| 4. Self-employed (business and industry services) |
| 5. Agriculture, forestry, and fisheries |
| 6. Doctor |
| 7. Dentist |
| 8. Pharmacist |
| 9. Nurse |
| 10. Assistant nurse |
| 11. Public health nurse |
| 12. Midwife |
| 13. Physical therapist |
| 14. Occupational therapist |
| 15. Other health-related profession |
| 16. Legal management |
| 17. Professional such as a lawyer or tax accountant |
| 18. Housewife/househusband |
| 19. Student |
| 20. Other occupation |
| Q4. Do you have a medical license? (single selection) |
1. Yes |
| 2. No |
| Q5. Are you currently hospitalized or attending a medical institution (hospital or clinic)? (single selection) |
1. Yes |
| 2. No |
| Q6. Do you have experience working at a medical institution (hospital or clinic)? (single selection) |
1. Yes |
| 2. No |
| Q7. What is the current population size of your area? (single selection) |
1. Special wards (23 wards of Tokyo) or ordinance-designated cities with a population of 500,000 or more. |
| 2. Core cities or special cities with a population of 200,000 or more |
| 3. Cities with a population of 100,000 or more |
| 4. Cities with a population of less than 100,000 people |
| 5. Towns and villages with a population of less than 10,000 people |
| Q8. Please indicate your highest educational background. (single selection) |
1. Junior high school graduate |
| 2. High school graduate |
| 3. Vocational school graduate |
| 4. Junior college graduate |
| 5. University graduate |
| 6. Graduate school |
| 7. Others |
| Q9. Do you think that the saying “humans make mistakes” applies to medical professionals as well? (single selection) |
1. Totally true |
| 2. Quite true |
| 3. More or less likely |
| 4. Neither agree nor disagree |
| 5. Rather different |
| 6. Quite different |
| 7. Completely different |
| Q10. Do you think that doctors may not be able to make a diagnosis in one visit? (single selection) |
1. Totally true |
| 2. Quite true |
| 3. More or less likely |
| 4. Neither agree nor disagree |
| 5. Rather different |
| 6. Quite different |
| 7. Completely different |
| Q11. Do you think that there are individual differences in how the effects of treatments and drugs appear? (single selection) |
1. Totally true |
| 2. Quite true |
| 3. More or less likely |
| 4. Neither agree nor disagree |
| 5. Rather different |
| 6. Quite different |
| 7. Completely different |
| Q12. Do you think that some people will have severe side effects even if they take the same medicine, while others will not? (single selection) |
1. Totally true |
| 2. Quite true |
| 3. More or less likely |
| 4. Neither agree nor disagree |
| 5. Rather different |
| 6. Quite different |
| 7. Completely different |
| Q13. Do you think that sudden deterioration (sudden worsening of the condition) or death that medical professionals cannot predict will occur? (single selection) |
1. Totally true |
| 2. Quite true |
| 3. More or less likely |
| 4. Neither agree nor disagree |
| 5. Rather different |
| 6. Quite different |
| 7. Completely different |
| Q14. What do you think is the probability of neuropathy (numbness, sensation, movement abnormalities, etc.) from blood collection? (single selection) |
1.Never (zero) |
| 2.1 in 100 people |
| 3.1 in 1000 people |
| 4.1 to 1 in 100,000 people |
| 5. 1 in 1 million people |
| 6. 1 in 10 million people |
