title: Difficulties of filming interactions.
abstract: This paper highlights issues associated with participant observation when collecting video data of nurse and patient communication. The varying role of the researcher as a participant observer between the two extremes of complete participant and complete observer is illuminated.
authors.affiliation: Royal Marsden NHS Trust, London.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mallett
mesh_terms: D015982:Bias; D003142:Communication; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012108:Research Personnel / Q000523:psychology; D014743:Videotape Recording / Q000379:methods*