title: Acceptability and design of video-based research on healthcare communication: Evidence and recommendations.
abstract: To contribute to understandings about acceptability and risks entailed in video-based research on healthcare communication. To generate recommendations for non-covert video-based research on healthcare communication - with a focus on maximising its acceptability to participants, and managing and reducing its risks.
  
  
  
  A literature review and synthesis of (a) empirical research on participant acceptability and risks of video recording; (b) regulations of professional and governmental bodies; (c) reviews and commentaries; (d) guidance and recommendations. These were gathered across several academic and professional fields (including medical, educational, and social scientific).
  
  
  
  36 publications were included in the review and synthesis (7 regulatory documents, 7 empirical, 4 reviews/commentaries, 18 guidance/recommendations). In the context of research aiming in some way to improve healthcare communication:
  
  
  
  The recommendations are designed to support deliberations and decisions about individual studies and to support ethical scrutiny of proposed research studies. Whilst preliminary, it is nevertheless the most comprehensive and detailed currently available.
authors.affiliation: Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
authors.forename: Ruth
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Parry
authors.affiliation: Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pino
authors.affiliation: LOROS Hospice Care for Leicestershire and Rutland, and Medicine University Hospitals Leicester, UK.
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Faull
authors.affiliation: LOROS Hospice Care for Leicestershire and Rutland, and Medicine University Hospitals Leicester, UK. Electronic address: ruth.parry@nottingham.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Luke
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Feathers
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000379:methods; D004501:Education, Medical; D006801:Humans; D012107:Research Design; D014741:Video Recording