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Descriptor English: Information Avoidance
Descriptor Spanish: Evitación de Información
Descriptor evitación de información
Entry term(s) rechazo a la información
Scope note: Optar por no obtener información, incluso aunque disponer de ella pudiera ser beneficioso para uno.
Descriptor Portuguese: Evitação da Informação
Descriptor French: Évitement de l'information
Entry term(s): Avoidance, Information
Denial, Information
Information Denial
Tree number(s): F01.393.537
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000087366
Scope note: Choosing to not obtain knowledge even if having the information could be to one's benefit.
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Public MeSH Note: 2022
History Note: 2022
Related: Avoidance Learning MeSH
DeCS ID: 59633
Unique ID: D000087366
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2022/01/01
Date of Entry: 2021/07/09
Revision Date: 2021/01/18
Information Avoidance - Preferred
Concept UI M000737113
Scope note Choosing to not obtain knowledge even if having the information could be to one's benefit.
Preferred term Information Avoidance
Entry term(s) Avoidance, Information
Information Denial - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000737114
Preferred term Information Denial
Entry term(s) Denial, Information



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