Information seeking in a natural stress situation

Abstract

Compared 1,208 hospitalized tuberculosis patients under the care of informative and uninformative physicians with respect to their use of books in the patient library. The 2 groups did not differ in the proportion of general book readers. However, in line with the findings of prior laboratory experiments on information choice and information seeking in stress situations, patients of uninformative physicians tended to seek out books about tuberculosis and its treatment more frequently than patients of informative physicians. (19 ref.) (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)