Hsrc Recruitment Procedure

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1.1 The purpose of this document is to describe the policy and procedure to be followed in research approved by the Health Sciences Research Ethics Committee (HSREC) of the University of the Free State for the recruitment of human research participants and to provide guidance for recruitment, especially when advertising.
2 POLICY
2.1 The HSREC is required to review all documents and activities related to recruitment that bear on the rights and welfare of the participants of proposed research, this includes the recruitment process.
2.2 Any payment or other incentive offered to prospective research participants to take part in the research study must also be reviewed and approved by the HSREC.
2.3 The Investigator must obtain HSREC approval for …show more content…

Finder’s fees and bonus payments are compensation of any type (cash, office or medical supplies, educational stipends, gift certificates, priority in authorship listings, travel reimbursement, or anything else of value) to a professional (i.e. health professional, teacher, faculty member, study coordinator) made in exchange for referral or recruitment of a participant to a research study. The HSREC does not permit the payment of finder’s fees (monetary or in kind) in any form, due to the potential that such a practice could be perceived as coercive and bordering on unethical research subject recruitment.
4.7 Referral fees. Research participants may be offered a nominal fee to assist with participant recruitment efforts (i.e., respondent driven sampling). Researchers must include information in the HSREC protocol, such as the amount of the fee and the circumstances under which fees will be paid. The HSREC must ensure that there is no coercion on referred individuals to participate, and no coercion on current participants to provide referrals.
4.8 Payment of research participants.
4.8.1 The HSREC must review the amount and method of payment to research participants in accordance with the provisions of the National Health Research Ethics Council (NHREC).
4.8.2 Neither the amount nor method of payment for research participants must present the potential for undue influence.
4.8.3 Compensation to participants must be prorated and not wholly contingent on completion of the study by the

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