Dinah A. Tetteh Data-verified
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Dinah A. Tetteh's research investigates communication and emotional experiences related to health, particularly focusing on cancer survivorship and women's health. Her work has explored themes of uncertainty, guilt, and topic avoidance in interpersonal communication about ovarian cancer, drawing on perspectives like uncertainty management and relational dialectics. Tetteh has also examined the role of media in processing grief, specifically analyzing parasocial grieving in response to public figures' deaths and the narrative of ovarian cancer patients in media. Her research interests extend to the emotional impact of sensitive health topics and autoethnographic accounts within cancer research. Additionally, she has explored vlogging pregnancy and labor experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic and has an interest in editorial practices through a feminist lens.
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- h-index: 9
- Publications: 26
- Citations: 302
Selected Publications
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On Inclusivity: Editorial Practices Through a Feminist Lens (2026)
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The Emotional Impact of Sensitive Topics: An Autoethnographic Account of an Ovarian Cancer Research (2024)
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Making Sense of Gynecologic Cancer: A Relational Dialectics Approach (2024)
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Uncertainty and Guilt in Ovarian Cancer Survivorship (2022)
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Openness and topic avoidance in interpersonal communication about ovarian cancer: An uncertainty management perspective (2021)
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Global Mediatized Death and Emotion: Parasocial Grieving—Mourning #stephenhawking on Twitter (2021)
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“I just re-evaluated what was beautiful when I went through treatment:” an analysis of Elly Mayday’s ovarian cancer narrative (2021)
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- Global Mediatized Death and Emotion: Parasocial Grieving—Mourning #stephenhawking on Twitter
- Openness and topic avoidance in interpersonal communication about ovarian cancer: An uncertainty management perspective
- Making Sense of Gynecologic Cancer: A Relational Dialectics Approach
- Vlogging Pregnancy and Laboring During the Pandemic on YouTube
- Vlogging Pregnancy and Laboring During the Pandemic on YouTube
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