A 10‐Year Analysis of Internet Search Trends of the Oral Health−Seeking Behavior of Filipinos

Dalanon, Junhel; Matsuka, Yoshizo

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“…The way people seek information via Google using various keywords is an implicit exhibition of their online CSB. Google Trends (GT) has already been proven to be a valid and reliable tool for assessing the online search trends of populations in the medical field [17,18].…”

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Association of COVID-19-imposed lockdown and online searches for toothache in Iran

Sofi‐Mahmudi¹,

Shamsoddin²,

Ghasemi

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BMC Oral Health

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Background Novel coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has impacted populations in many ways worldwide, including access to oral health services. This study aims to assess the association between lockdown due to COVID-19 and online searches for toothache in Iran using Google Trends (GT). Methods We investigated GT online searches for toothache within the past five years. The time frame for data gathering was considered as the initiation and end dates of the national lockdown in Iran. We performed one-way ANOVA statistical test to compare relative search volumes (RSVs) between the year 2020 and 2016–2019 for the whole country. Then we investigated the possible association of RSVs in provinces with dentists’ density, prevalence of current daily smokers, Human Development Index (HDI), Internet access, and fluoride concentration in water using linear regression. Results When comparing 2020 with the previous four years, there was a rise of 2020 RSVs versus all previous years combined and each year (P < 0.001 for all of them). In the linear model for the year 2020, HDI (B = − 3.29, 95% CI: (− 5.80, − 0.78), P = 0.012) had a strong negative relationship with provincial RSVs. HDI mostly had strong positive relationship with provincial RSVs in prior years. Fluoride concentration (B = − 0.13, 95% CI: (− 0.24, − 0.03), P = 0.017) and dentists’ density (B = − 0.04, 95% CI: (− 0.25, 0.17), P = 0.669) were also negatively associated with RSVs in 2020. These associations were mostly negative in the previous years as well. Internet access (B = 0.36, 95% CI: (− 0.38, 1.09), P = 0.325) and prevalence of daily smokers (B = 0.33, 95% CI: (0.13, 0.53), P = 0.002) were positively associated with RSVs. Conclusion The RSVs for toothache in 2020 have increased due to COVID-19-imposed lockdown compared with the same period in the past four years. This increase was related to socioeconomic factors.

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Association of COVID-19-imposed lockdown and online searches for toothache in Iran

Sofi‐Mahmudi¹,

Shamsoddin²,

Ghasemi

et al. 2021

BMC Oral Health

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“…Currently, Google Trends (GT) enable cost-effective surveillance of various diseases and other health-related phenomena. Among others, scientists and epidemiologists have used GT in the past to detect health-seeking behavior in terms of toothache (Dalanon et al, 2021), tooth decay (Dalanon and Matsuka, 2020b;Dalanon and Matsuka, 2020a), health professions (Dalanon and Matsuka, 2020c;Dalanon and Matsuka, 2020d), influenza (Choi and Ahn, 2020), Zika (Strauss et al, 2020), and COVID-19 (Adkins and Booth, 2020;Sycinska-Dziarnowska and Paradowska-Stankiewicz, 2020). A previous study analyzed search interests for oral cancer in Filipino people, but an analysis of global GT data has not been done yet (Dalanon et al, 2020).…”

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Decreased Global Interest in Oral Cancer During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Dalanon

Matsuka

2021

Asian Pac J Cancer Prev

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Worldwide, oral cancer is the 15 th leading cause of death and 16 th most common malignancy. The oral cancer incidence of four per 100, 000 cases vary depending on countries, races, age, gender, and socioeconomic situations (Ferlay et al., 2019). The risk factors for oral cancer include genetic and environmental factors, and physical conditions. Discrepancies per country could be due to preventive education, culture, medical archiving conditions, and life expectancies (Wyss et al., 2013). Roughly 657, 000 new instances and 330, 000 subsequent deaths due to oral cancer have been reported worldwide each year. Betel nut chewing, excessive drinking, and smoking are health-related behaviors that could lead to heightened risk of oral cancer occurrence. Although socioeconomic status has been emphasized and linked to increased oral cancer incidence, it has also been shown that highly urbanized areas had have greater risk for cancer as well (Hung et al., 2020).Early cancer prevention and detection is a vital component in the control of cancer. Expensive and

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“…However, the internet is likewise replete with misinformation, inconsistencies, and unregulated advice for which both patient and physician must be vigilant [7,8]. For this reason, there has been growing interest in analyzing the trends of internet search queries as a means of gauging population perceptions of and attitudes and behaviors towards health [9][10][11][12], specifically search queries in the Google search engine which is the world's largest as it accounts for over 70% of the web search industry [11,12]. The ultimate goal of this analysis is to inform public health and policy [13].…”

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A Ten-Year Trend Analysis of Cancer-Related Search Queries in the Philippines

Zaldarriaga

2021

International Journal of Digital Health

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Objectives: The internet has become one of the most important sources of health information. Analyzing search queries can provide valuable insight on health-seeking behaviors of entire populations. More than half of the Philippine population use the internet; however, trends of search queries have rarely been analyzed. This study analyzed the trends of cancer-related search queries in the Philippines over a ten-year period. Methods: For the period spanning December 31, 2009 to December 31, 2019 in the Philippines, Google Trends™ was used to compute the search volume index for pre-selected cancer-related search terms. Two-way repeated measures analysis of variance with post hoc Dunnett’s multiple comparisons test was performed to detect a significant difference between the search terms across the period of study and to explore the trend of these differences. Results: There was a significant difference between the cancer-related search terms across 2009 to 2019, F (4.512, 169.3) = 140.9, p < 0.0001. Statistically significant increases in SVI were noted for the search term “cancer” in 2016 (p = 0.010), 2017 (p = 0.019), 2018 (p = 0.004), and 2019 (p = 0.006); for “kanser”, 2017 (p = 0.023), 2018 (p = 0.044), and 2019 (p = 0.042); for “tumor”, 2016 (p = 0.026), 2017 (p = 0.022), 2018 (p = 0.004), and 2019 (p = 0.006); and for “bukol”, 2017 (p = 0.008), 2018 (p = 0.004), and 2019 (p = 0.006). Conclusion: This study revealed a significant increase in cancer-related search activity in the Philippines in recent years.

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A 10‐Year Analysis of Internet Search Trends of the Oral Health−Seeking Behavior of Filipinos

Cited by 7 publications

References 22 publications

Association of COVID-19-imposed lockdown and online searches for toothache in Iran

Association of COVID-19-imposed lockdown and online searches for toothache in Iran

Decreased Global Interest in Oral Cancer During the COVID-19 Pandemic

A Ten-Year Trend Analysis of Cancer-Related Search Queries in the Philippines

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