Financial incentives for participants in health research: when are they ethical?

Tania Manríquez Roa; Nikola Biller-Andorno

doi:10.4414/SMW.2022.w30166

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Financial incentives for participants in health research: when are they ethical?

Tania Manríquez Roa
Nikola Biller-Andorno

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4414/SMW.2022.w30166
Cite this as:: Swiss Med Wkly. 2022;152:w30166
Published: 16.03.2022

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World Medical Association. World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki: ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects. JAMA. 2013 Nov;310(20):2191–4. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2013.281053
Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS). International ethical guidelines for health-related research involving humans. Geneva: CIOMS; 2016. 122p.
Swiss Federal Act on Research Involving Human Beings. Art. 14 Non-remunerative participation, https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/2013/617/en
Gelinas L, Largent EA, Cohen IG, Kornetsky S, Bierer BE, Fernandez Lynch H. A Framework for Ethical Payment to Research Participants. N Engl J Med. 2018 Feb;378(8):766–71. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMsb1710591
Resnik DB. Bioethical Issues in Providing Financial Incentives to Research Participants. Medicoleg Bioeth. 2015 Jun;5:35–41. https://doi.org/10.2147/MB.S70416
Gopichandran V, Luyckx VA, Biller-Andorno N, Fairchild A, Singh J, Tran N, et al. Developing the ethics of implementation research in health. Implement Sci. 2016 Dec;11(1):161. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-016-0527-y
Sandel MJ. What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 2012.
World Health Organization (WHO). Ethics in Implementation Research, Facilitator's Guide. Geneva: WHO; 2019. 172p.
Hoskins K, Schmidt H. Breastfeeding, personal responsibility and financial incentives. Public Health Ethics. 2021 Nov;14(3):233–41. https://doi.org/10.1093/phe/phab020

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[1] World Medical Association. World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki: ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects. JAMA. 2013 Nov;310(20):2191–4. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2013.281053

[2] Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS). International ethical guidelines for health-related research involving humans. Geneva: CIOMS; 2016. 122p.

[3] Swiss Federal Act on Research Involving Human Beings. Art. 14 Non-remunerative participation, https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/2013/617/en

[4] Gelinas L, Largent EA, Cohen IG, Kornetsky S, Bierer BE, Fernandez Lynch H. A Framework for Ethical Payment to Research Participants. N Engl J Med. 2018 Feb;378(8):766–71. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMsb1710591

[5] Resnik DB. Bioethical Issues in Providing Financial Incentives to Research Participants. Medicoleg Bioeth. 2015 Jun;5:35–41. https://doi.org/10.2147/MB.S70416

[6] Gopichandran V, Luyckx VA, Biller-Andorno N, Fairchild A, Singh J, Tran N, et al. Developing the ethics of implementation research in health. Implement Sci. 2016 Dec;11(1):161. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-016-0527-y

[7] Sandel MJ. What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 2012.

[8] World Health Organization (WHO). Ethics in Implementation Research, Facilitator's Guide. Geneva: WHO; 2019. 172p.

[9] Hoskins K, Schmidt H. Breastfeeding, personal responsibility and financial incentives. Public Health Ethics. 2021 Nov;14(3):233–41. https://doi.org/10.1093/phe/phab020