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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Prev Sci. 2009 Dec;10(4):345–352. doi: 10.1007/s11121-009-0136-y

Table 3.

Responses to financial incentives and differential treatment questions among 97 female participants from drug court

Question High compliance % Yes (n) Low compliance % Yes (n) X2
Should participants be paid for their time? 94 (49) 89 (40) NS
Would you be willing to participate in a study if you were paid using a gift card rather than cash—in an amount you consider fair? 88 (46) 84 (38) NS
Would offering large payments make most people sign up for a study they normally would not sign up for? 88 (46) 91 (41) NS
Do you think you would ignore the risks of a study if you were offered a large payment to participate? 8 (4) 16 (7) NS
Should researchers be allowed to offer large payments to encourage participation? 58 (30) 56 (25) NS
Is it fair to forbid researchers to pay drug users cash? 42 (22) 51 (23) NS
Should researchers be allowed to exclude drug users from ordinary clinical studies? 25 (13) 16 (7) NS
Is it right that government regulations exclude prisoners from participating in ordinary clinical trials? 10 (5) 18 (8) NS