Video recording as a data collection method in vulnerable populations - methodological and ethical considerations.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Video recording vulnerable situations in healthcare practice raises ethical challenges that require addressing throughout the research process. Such challenges are linked to protecting research participants and assessing when and how using video recordings is appropriate.

Aim

This article aims to present methodological and ethical considerations inherent in video recording vulnerable participants and to offer future researchers concrete guidance and inspiration as to how they might assess these aspects of their own planned video research.

Results and discussion

As a group of researchers who have used video recordings to collect data of patients in vulnerable situations, we reflect upon our own methodological and ethical choices against the backdrop of oth

SUBMITTER: Karlsen MW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12538683 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature