How and how much you can earn from participating in clinical trials

How to find and participate in paid clinical trials, reports Antidot.

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If you've ever considered participating in a clinical trial or study, you may be aware that some studies offer financial compensation.

Understanding Clinical Research Opportunities, Where You Will Be Paid

First of all, it is important to understand why you will be paid.

CISCRP indicates that you receive compensation as a risk reward. You can get benefits such as access to health care and services that are not available to regular patients, but the treatments you will be testing have not been approved.

The amount of payment often depends on the stage of the trial.

For example, Phase 1 studies pay more (about $ 2000 on average) because the treatments being studied are less understood. Compare that to Phase IV trials, which offer the lowest average compensation (around $ 400).

Therapeutic area can also influence pay—cardiovascular, neuroscience, endocrine, gastrointestinal, and blood disease studies pay the most.

But it's important to remember that clinical trials where you get paid require you to do something in return.

In addition to testing unapproved treatments, you will likely be asked to track symptoms and side effects, and visit a site to participate.

Before you can participate in any clinical research, you will be asked to review and sign an Informed Consent Form (ICF), which will explain the potential benefits, risks, and side effects you may experience while participating in a clinical research.

Exploratory treatment may or may not improve your condition.

Informed consent is not a contract and you can opt out of the trial at any time. But it's better to know what you are getting yourself into beforehand.

It is important for you to fully understand what you are about to do, so talking to a research participant is critical.

Before registering, you can ask the research team as many questions as you like.

How to find a paid clinical research opportunity

Some trials involve paying for time and effort, while others simply reimburse travel or childcare costs.

If you think it “sounds great,” you might be wondering how to find a paid trial.

Unfortunately, there's no perfect way to do this—many trials don't include this information in their public registry listings, and simply looking at an ad won't tell you whether you're eligible for a study.

Many websites have lists of paid trials, but again, it can be difficult to determine if you meet the criteria.

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It is recommended that you find a few tests that you can qualify for, and then contact the sites to learn more about the study and possible fees.

Clinical Trials Search Tool Antidote allows you to filter by phase and type, which can help you narrow down your search.

Even if the trial is unpaid, if you live with a certain medical condition, you may find it worth the access to potential new treatment and the care you get at the facility.

Without volunteers, new drugs cannot be approved by the FDA and therefore cannot be made available to patients. Clinical trials play an important role in the development of scientific research and should benefit future generations.

Nina, clinical trial participant, told her story

“When I was diagnosed with lung cancer, it surprised me, my friends, my whole family and everyone around me. I didn’t know what to do, how to pull myself together and just started drawing.”

Light, watercolor, in gentle tones, the woman's drawings convey her perception, experience and understanding of her illness.

One of Nina's drawings depicts a bridge that does not connect the two banks, but breaks off halfway.

“I was told not to look for answers on the Internet, but I couldn’t resist, I wanted to find out what I could count on. And I found out that I had 3 to 6 months to live. This drawing is called "Broken Bridge". Bridges connect banks, but this bridge does not. He only gets halfway. The idea is that when you have cancer, you don't know what will help you get through to the other side. Only hope. The hope is that some kind of treatment will help reach the opposite shore,” says Nina.

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Nina received radiation therapy, but then another tumor started growing - another round of radiation therapy.

Nothing helped. The cancer did not recede. The woman says that drawing helped her express herself. Her paintings are a mirror of what is happening to her.

“I didn’t get experimental treatment until I tried everything else that didn’t work. The tumor continued to grow. “I remember the moment when my doctor told me that he was sending me to clinical trials of a new drug,” Nina recalls. “I then thought: “Dear God! Help me, create a miracle!”

Nina says people think she's brave because she's taking part in testing drugs with unknown side effects.

But the woman says that she is not brave, but doctors and scientists who do not give up, who do not give up if there is no result.

“They are real daredevils and pioneers in their difficult work, they are trying with all their might to find the right combination of drugs and medications so that we can live. They continue to work and never give up,” says Nina.

In her case, experimental therapy helped - after some time of treatment, the scanner did not detect a single swelling in her body.

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