Volunteers recruitment procedures

Procedures for recruitment of volunteers vary slightly between organisations conducting healthy volunteer studies, but the checklist of procedures provided in Box 4.7 is generic. 

Typically, between 20 and 80 healthy adults (this number can certainly be lower) participate in these relatively short studies, and subjects are often recruited from university medical school settings where trials are being conducted. Subjects are typically paid for their participation. (This payment may be one reason why the term volunteers originated to describe these subjects—see the discussion in Section 1.8.2. However, there are financial benefits to many clinical trial participants in later clinical trials too, in that medical procedures involved in trials are conducted at no cost to the subjects.)... 

Four final year male students of a physiotherapy graduation course were recruited. Participant age (25.25 + 2.06 years), weight and height were collected and body mass index was calculated (22.13 + 1.43 kg/m ). The volunteers were healthy and were screened to exclude history of pathology. No cardiovascular, neurological, metabolic or musculoskeletal diseases and no medication affecting these systems were self-reported. The study was approved by the ethics committee of the Fernando Pessoa University and all participants gave their written consent to participate in the study after the procedures and any risk or discomfort associated with the... 

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