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Post by bo peep on Jul 3, 2014 17:56:28 GMT -5
Can I please have the complete list of companies that use VCT & WCT? Thank you in advance.
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Post by vark on Jul 12, 2014 0:02:48 GMT -5
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Post by Bulldog on Aug 27, 2014 6:30:12 GMT -5
PAREXEL is now on-board in September
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Post by respect on Aug 31, 2014 8:13:00 GMT -5
Parexel confirm the VCT RUMOR IS A COW PIE.
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Post by respect on Sept 4, 2014 21:23:10 GMT -5
I heard VCT and other verification programs use presentations like these on the message board as evidences to prospective clinics of why they should get their programs and as further proof of their success. For those of us who play by the rules it only helps these privacy violation program to infringe on our law protected rights. So good job to all those of you who promoted their cause. May be one day they willback end the process and serve you with a sopeana!
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Post by codipomroy on Dec 16, 2015 20:30:16 GMT -5
What is VCT & WCT? Go ahead and laugh...yes, I am new to this.
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Post by vark on Dec 17, 2015 9:38:53 GMT -5
It's a thing where they check to see you're not in another study, or less than 30 days from your last study. It might or might not have other nefarious uses, but to the extent that it promotes honesty it's good for us and good for the science.
It's not unusual to be at a study and some cowboy is planning how they will check out and check right in to another study, taking a spot away from those of us who play by the rules. The FDA could easily make all this unnecessary by checking their own records, but they don't bother. VTC has stated that its goal is to drive out people who are lab rats for a living, that is, us.
VTC is connected with study scavenger, which is a sponsor of this site. To be fully effective, VCT would have to sign up all the clinics, which it hasn't done. But it has maybe half.
Many clinics are pressured by their irbs to keep study payments below a living wage, so some study participants feel like they have to cut corners to get by. It would be better for everybody if they'd raise the pay and enforce the washout periods, but I'm not expecting that to happen. of course how much you can make depends in part of how often you get in. some of these cowboy types i mentioned are young and in tip top health and get in 90% of the time, so they are flying from one high paying study to another.
for somebody like me who only gets in half the time that's not practical.
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Post by vark on Dec 21, 2015 14:12:07 GMT -5
Been told that a few times, and run into in the literature. They feel if they pay us too much it's coercive; somebody might have reservations but not be able to turn down the money. What they don't factor in is that when they keep pay low, it becomes a struggle to just meet expenses, and it becomes harder to turn down a study. I especially run into this at screenings, when they tell you soing new they didnt tell you over the phone. If i've driven 500 miles and spend $100, i'm less able/willing to say no. So it bothers me when some places won't let you see the consent form until screening. The responsble thing to do would be to email it so I could opt out before screening if there's soing there I dont like. Low pay also means subjects are less able to afford insurance to mitigate the risk of costs if soing went wrong. I don't know if anybody's collected data on what ent of subjects have health insurance; my guess is most of us don't. jme.bmj.com/content/30/3/293.fullThe influence of risk and monetary payment on the research participation decision making process www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/thc-prv022212.phpPaying research volunteers raises ethical concerns, study concludes ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/ethicshumansubjectresearch/PDFs/Coercion.pdfPayment, Coercion, and Undue Inducement - Johns Hopkins. |
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