Table 2.
Highly frequent major MeSHa terms from the included publications on Internet health information seeking behavior (n=1577).
| No. | MeSH terms | Frequency
n (%b) |
Cumulative percentage, % |
| 1 | Consumer Health Information | 77 (4.88) | 4.88 |
| 2 | Information Services | 67 (4.25) | 9.13 |
| 3 | Patient Education as Topic | 55 (3.49) | 12.62 |
| 4 | Information Storage and Retrieval | 50 (3.17) | 15.79 |
| 5 | Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice | 50 (3.17) | 18.96 |
| 6 | Health Education | 44 (2.79) | 21.75 |
| 7 | Patient Acceptance of Health Care | 35 (2.22) | 23.97 |
| 8 | Neoplasms | 33 (2.09) | 26.06 |
| 9 | Information Dissemination | 23 (1.46) | 27.52 |
| 10 | Parents | 21 (1.33) | 28.85 |
| 11 | Attitude to Computers | 18 (1.14) | 29.99 |
| 12 | Medical Informatics | 17 (1.08) | 31.07 |
| 13 | Physician-Patient Relations | 16 (1.01) | 32.09 |
| 14 | Health Behavior | 16 (1.01) | 33.10 |
| 15 | Social Support | 16 (1.01) | 34.12 |
| 16 | Consumer Satisfaction | 15 (0.95) | 35.07 |
| 17 | Search Engine | 15 (0.95) | 36.02 |
| 18 | Breast Neoplasms | 14 (0.89) | 36.91 |
| 19 | Attitude to Health | 14 (0.89) | 37.79 |
| 20 | Online Systems | 13 (0.82) | 38.62 |
| 21 | Computer Literacy | 12 (0.76) | 39.38 |
| 22 | Consumer Participation | 11 (0.70) | 40.08 |
| 23 | Social Media | 11 (0.70) | 40.77 |
| 24 | Adolescent Behavior | 11 (0.70) | 41.47 |
| 25 | Trust | 11 (0.70) | 42.17 |
| 26 | Physicians | 10 (0.63) | 42.80 |
| 27 | Patient Satisfaction | 10 (0.63) | 43.44 |
| 28 | HIV Infections | 10 (0.63) | 44.07 |
| 29 | Students | 10 (0.63) | 44.71 |
| 30 | Cellular Phone | 10 (0.63) | 45.34 |
aMeSH: Medical Subject Headings
bProportion of the frequency among 1577 times’ appearance.