"Motivation" 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.
Those factors which cause an organism to behave or act in either a goal-seeking or satisfying manner. They may be influenced by physiological drives or by external stimuli.
| Descriptor ID |
D009042
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.658 F01.752.543.500.750
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2017 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Motivation" by people in Profiles.
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Beyond the high: exploring socioecological influences on cannabis use in older women with and without HIV. Gerontologist. 2025 11 10; 65(12).
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Participant engagement in a national longitudinal study of COVID-19: Insights from the INSPIRE study. PLoS One. 2025; 20(7):e0325948.
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Survey response rates in health sciences education research: A 10-year meta-analysis. Anat Sci Educ. 2024 Jan-Feb; 17(1):11-23.
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Meeting Patient Expectations and Achieving a Minimal Clinically Important Difference for Back Disability, Back Pain, and Leg Pain May Provide Predictive Utility for Achieving Patient Satisfaction Among Lumbar Decompression Patients. World Neurosurg. 2022 06; 162:e328-e335.
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Mental Health as a Predictor of Preoperative Expectations for Pain and Disability Following Lumbar Fusion. World Neurosurg. 2022 05; 161:e401-e407.
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The Role of Incentive Spirometry for Patients with COVID-19. Am J Emerg Med. 2021 Sep; 47:292-293.
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Beauty is in the eye of the follower: Facial aesthetics in the age of social media. Am J Otolaryngol. 2020 Nov - Dec; 41(6):102643.
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Small Social Incentives Did Not Improve the Survey Response Rate of Patients Who Underwent Orthopaedic Surgery: A Randomized Trial. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2019 07; 477(7):1648-1656.
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Volitional questionnaire: Psychometric evaluation of the finnish translation. Scand J Occup Ther. 2020 Feb; 27(2):154-162.
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Objective Predictors of Grit, Self-Control, and Conscientiousness in Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Applicants. J Am Acad Orthop Surg. 2019 Mar 01; 27(5):e227-e234.