SSStudyParticipantsCompensationReimbursement object

Depends on study population (healthy subjects or patients)

Inconvenience, Pain, Discomfort
Expenses (e.g. transportation, meals, and others such as salary lost)

In general a distinction is made between compensation for documented loss of earnings or for documented transportation costs and inconvenience compensation, which relates to the invasiveness, duration, pain and discomfort of the trial. Healthy trial subjects may receive all this types of remuneration.

Trial patients, who participate in a trial because they have a disorder or condition which is required for participation in the trial, cannot be offered inconvenience compensation.
However model trial patients may receive the same types of remuneration as healthy trial subjects. These trial subjects are patients but there must be no possible treatment benefit of trial participation.

Further details are provided in the 'Guidelines for remuneration or other payment for voluntary trial subjects, Appendix 6 in the Guidelines about Notification etc. of a Biomedical Research Project to the Committee System on Biomedical Research Ethics'