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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| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Information Seeking Behavior" by people in Profiles.
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AI chatbots in the PICU: parental enthusiasm contrasts with socioeconomic usage disparities. Inform Health Soc Care. 2026; 51(1):62-70.
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Parents' stigmatizing beliefs about the HPV vaccine and their association with information seeking behavior and vaccination communication behaviors. Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2023 12 31; 19(1):2214054.
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Information-seeking preferences in diverse patients receiving a genetic testing result in the Clinical Sequencing Evidence-Generating Research (CSER) study. Genet Med. 2023 09; 25(9):100899.
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Health information seeking in the digital age: a national survey of women with disabilities. Disabil Rehabil. 2023 08; 45(17):2751-2760.
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A neural network for information seeking. Nat Commun. 2019 11 14; 10(1):5168.
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An Integrative Review: Understanding Parental Use of Social Media to Influence Infant and Child Health. Matern Child Health J. 2019 Oct; 23(10):1360-1370.
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Parental distress and desire for information regarding long-term implications of pediatric cancer treatment. Cancer. 2018 12 01; 124(23):4529-4537.
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Making soft intelligence hard: a multi-site qualitative study of challenges relating to voice about safety concerns. BMJ Qual Saf. 2018 09; 27(9):710-717.
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eHealth patient-provider communication in the United States: interest, inequalities, and predictors. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2017 Apr 01; 24(e1):e18-e27.
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Calibrating how doctors think and seek information to minimise errors in diagnosis. BMJ Qual Saf. 2017 06; 26(6):436-438.