{"title":"(Un)tidying the Account: The Emotional Cost of Hearing Untold Stories.","authors":"Maggie A Unruh","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2026.2745712","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In qualitative research, the researcher can be considered the research instrument, in which our positionality influences our interactions with participants and our interpretations of the data. Yet, the effect of this process on the researcher is less emphasized. In this essay, I describe the experience of writing my master's thesis about sexual assault survivors' privacy management in romantic relationships, asking how we manage these embodied experiences (and our disclosures of such) as scholars.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9000,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Health Communication","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2026.2745712","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In qualitative research, the researcher can be considered the research instrument, in which our positionality influences our interactions with participants and our interpretations of the data. Yet, the effect of this process on the researcher is less emphasized. In this essay, I describe the experience of writing my master's thesis about sexual assault survivors' privacy management in romantic relationships, asking how we manage these embodied experiences (and our disclosures of such) as scholars.
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As an outlet for scholarly intercourse between medical and social sciences, this noteworthy journal seeks to improve practical communication between caregivers and patients and between institutions and the public. Outstanding editorial board members and contributors from both medical and social science arenas collaborate to meet the challenges inherent in this goal. Although most inclusions are data-based, the journal also publishes pedagogical, methodological, theoretical, and applied articles using both quantitative or qualitative methods.