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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 28.
Published in final edited form as: J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics. 2014 Dec 17;10(1):49–58. doi: 10.1177/1556264614563249

Table 3.

Financial Compensation as a Pretty or Very Important Motivation for Research Participation.

“How important to your decision to join your research study was receiving payment for participating?”

Adolescent report
Parent report
“Pretty” or “very important” for participation
p “Pretty” or “very important” for participation
p
n (%) n (%)
Overall 51 (28.8) 30 (16.9)
Disease severity (adolescent report) <.001 <.001
 Healthy 21 (60.0) 15 (42.9)
 Minor 4 (44.4) 1 (11.1)
 Significant, well-controlled 15 (18.8) 9 (11.3)
 Significant, not-well-controlled 9 (29.0) 5 (16.1)
 Significant, life-threatening 2 (9.1) 0 (0.0)
Study type <.001 <.001
 Healthy volunteer 21 (53.8) 16 (41.0)
 Psychiatric condition 5 (35.7) 2 (14.3)
 Medical condition 25 (20.2) 12 (9.7)
Age .03 .10
 13–15 35 (51.5) 22 (29.0)
 16–17 16 (29.6) 8 (13.8)
Gender .008 .38
 Male 34 (45.3) 15 (17.4)
 Female 17 (16.3) 15 (16.5)