title: Patient retention gifts in clinical trials - undue inducement or justified motivational tools?
abstract: The use of retention gifts in clinical trials has been controversial, with some ethicists maintaining that such gifts represent undue inducement to the trial participants. A study was conducted at TREAD Research, a site-managed organisation based at Tygerberg Hospital, in which 302 participants completed a questionnaire that focused on their opinion with regard to such gifts. The results suggest that these gifts do not influence patients to participate in a clinical trial or influence them to remain on a trial should they wish to withdraw. However, they do act as a useful motivational tool and trial participants appreciate them.
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Burgess
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sulzer
mesh_terms: D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D035842:Research Subjects / Q000191:economics*