Assessing Hiking Preparedness And The Need Of Hiprep-My Model Development Among Malaysian Hiker: A Pilot Study

Abstract

The implementation of a pilot study usually related to the validity and reliability of the instrument. Thus, the main purpose of this pilot study is to validate and test the reliability of the Hiking Preparedness Questionnaire which will be used as an instrument in the Need Analysis Phase in Design and Development Research (DDR) of HiPrep-My Model. This instrument consisted an adapted questionnaire from other researcher and has been modified to meet the need of Hiking Preparedness Model in Malaysia (HiPrep-My). This pilot study was implemented based on determined procedure and follow the standard of instrumentation. It involves three basic stages: pre-pilot study, during-pilot study and post-pilot study. At the first stage, all picked items of questionnaires that have been taken from other researchers went through the back-to-back translation procedure. Additional questions were added also in this stage. At the second stage, the modified questionnaire have been pilot tested among 30 hikers, (n=30) to get the validity and reliability of the items. At the final stage, the reliability evaluation of overall items was determined by the value of Cronbach’s alpha. Hence, the instrument has obtained a validity and reliability when overall items of the questionnaire shown an alpha value of .707 (α=0.707). As a results, this pilot study accomplished and the instrument can be used in the main study as a first phase of developing the HiPrep-My Model.