Mississippi State University, MS, USA.
J Law Med Ethics. 2011 Summer;39(2):243-53. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2011.00593.x.
Offering cash payments to research subjects is a common recruiting method, but this practice continues to be controversial because of its potential to compromise the protection of human subjects. Federal regulations and guidelines currently allow researchers to pay subjects for participation, but they say very little about how much researchers can pay their subjects. This paper argues that the federal regulations and guidelines should implement a standard payment formula. It argues for a wage payment model, and critically examines three candidates for a base wage: the nonfarm production wage, the FLSA minimum wage, and a living wage. After showing that the nonfarm production wage is too high to satisfy ethical criteria, and the minimum wage is too low, this paper concludes that the wage payment model with a base wage equivalent to a living wage is the best candidate for a standard payment formula in human subjects research.
向研究对象提供现金报酬是一种常见的招募方法，但由于其可能损害对人类受试者的保护，这种做法仍存在争议。联邦法规和指南目前允许研究人员为参与研究付费，但对于研究人员可以向其研究对象支付多少报酬却几乎没有规定。本文认为，联邦法规和准则应该实施标准报酬公式。本文主张采用工资报酬模式，并批判性地审查了三种基本工资候选人：非农生产工资、FLSA 最低工资和生活工资。在表明非农生产工资太高而无法满足伦理标准，以及最低工资太低之后，本文得出结论，以相当于生活工资的基本工资为基础的工资报酬模式是人类受试者研究中标准报酬公式的最佳候选人。
