Information Seeking Behavior
"Information Seeking Behavior" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
How information is gathered in personal, academic or work environments and the resources used.
| Descriptor ID |
D057226
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.145.209.372 F01.145.535 L01.143.458
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| Concept/Terms |
Information Seeking Behavior- Information Seeking Behavior
- Behavior, Information Seeking
- Behaviors, Information Seeking
- Information Seeking Behaviors
- Seeking Behavior, Information
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Information Seeking Behavior".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Information Seeking Behavior".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Information Seeking Behavior" by people in this website by year, and whether "Information Seeking Behavior" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| 2018 | 9 | 5 | 14 |
| 2019 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2020 | 13 | 6 | 19 |
| 2021 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Information Seeking Behavior" by people in Profiles.
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Barriers to learning a new technology to go online among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2021 11; 69(11):3051-3057.
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Public health adherence and information-seeking for people with chronic conditions during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. PM R. 2021 11; 13(11):1249-1260.
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Facing the Growing COVID-19 Infodemic: Digital Health Literacy and Information-Seeking Behaviour of University Students in Slovenia. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 08 12; 18(16).
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Determining the nutritional immunity information-seeking behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic in India: a Google Trends data analysis. Public Health Nutr. 2021 11; 24(16):5338-5349.
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The Influence of COVID-19 Information Sources on the Attitudes and Practices Toward COVID-19 Among the General Public of Saudi Arabia: Cross-sectional Online Survey Study. JMIR Public Health Surveill. 2021 07 30; 7(7):e28888.
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How Does COVID-19 Differ from the Flu/Cold? A Study of Multilevel Information Seeking among Korean Immigrant Women in the U.S. Am J Health Behav. 2021 07 26; 45(4):665-676.
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Characteristics of the Measurement Tools for Assessing Health Information-Seeking Behaviors in Nationally Representative Surveys: Systematic Review. J Med Internet Res. 2021 07 26; 23(7):e27539.
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The positive impact of social media on health behavior towards the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh: A web-based cross-sectional study. Diabetes Metab Syndr. 2021 Sep-Oct; 15(5):102206.
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Black and Latinx Community Perspectives on COVID-19 Mitigation Behaviors, Testing, and Vaccines. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 07 01; 4(7):e2117074.
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Decreased Global Interest in Oral Cancer During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2021 Jul 01; 22(7):2117-2124.