Trends of Online Search of COVID-19 Related Terms in Cyprus

Anastasiou, Marios; Pantavou, Katerina; Yiallourou, Anneza; Bonovas, Stefanos; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.

doi:10.3390/epidemiologia2010004

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“…Finally, there are no strict rules on how to analyze the GT in health care research [37]; on the other hand, the GT data are recognized by the scientific community as a reliable source on the basis of which scientific papers in various fields are published [38,39]. Because of the anonymized approach of data collection, GT enables the analysis and forecasting of sensitive topics especially in medicine [37,[40][41][42][43]. Because of using the revealed and not stated users' preferences, it is possible to obtain information that would be otherwise impossible to collect.…”

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Oral Health and Teledentistry Interest during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sycińska-Dziarnowska

Maglitto

Woźniak

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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak has significantly changed access to dental treatments. Methods: The data related to oral health and teledentistry topics were collected from the open database Google Trends. The analyzed material was collected from 19 June 2016 to 6 June 2021 among anonymous search engine users. The following expressions were analyzed: “dental care”, “emergency dental care”, “oral health”, ”periodontitis”, “teledentistry”, “is it safe to go to the dentist”, and “COVID-19” and ”PPE dentist”. Results: During the first lockdown in 2020, a significant increase in “emergency dental care” phrase queries was detected, with a simultaneous decrease in regular “dental care” questions, as well as a peak in the queries for “periodontitis” preceded by lower interest in “oral health.” The number of searches stated for “teledentistry” increased during the time of the pandemic 5 times and for and “PPE dentist” 30 times. The risk of visiting the dental studio was seen in almost 40 times increase in the query “is it safe to go to the dentist.” Conclusions: The COVID-19 imprinted a stigma on oral health care. In this difficult epidemiological situation, teledentistry might become a helpful solution.

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Oral Health and Teledentistry Interest during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sycińska-Dziarnowska

Maglitto

Woźniak

et al. 2021

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Monitoring of cherry flowering phenology with Google Trends

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Google Trends (GT) is an online tool designed for searching for changes over time. We assessed its use for evaluating changes in the timing of cherry flowering phenology, which is of intense interest to Japanese people. We examined the relationship between time-series of relative search volume (RSV: relative change in search requests over time obtained from the GT access engine) and cherry flowering information published on websites (as ground truth) in relation to three famous ancient cherry trees. The time-series of RSV showed an annual bell-shaped seasonal variability, and the dates of the maximum RSV tended to correspond to the dates of full bloom. Our results suggest that GT allows monitoring of multiple famous cherry flowering sites where we cannot obtain long-term flowering data to evaluate the spatiotemporal variability of cherry flowering phenology.

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Internet Search Effort on Covid-19 and the Underlying Public Interventions and Epidemiological Status

Moustakas

2021

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This study aimed to quantify the relative importance of indices of personal freedom, economy, and epidemiology on the public interest on Covid-19 expressed by internet searches on the topic. The relationship between the effective reproduction rate Rt, news media cover, and web search effort was also quantified. Data of online search in Greece on Covid-19 topic for one year were analyzed using indices of social distancing, financial measures, and epidemiological variables using machine learning. Temporal autocorrelation of web search effort was quantified and control charts of web search, Rt, new cases and new deaths were employed. Results indicated that the trained model exhibited a fit of R2 = 91% between the actual and predicted web search effort. The top five variables for predicting web search effort were new deaths, the opening of international borders to non-Greek nationals, new cases, testing policy, and restrictions in internal movements. Web search had negligible temporal autocorrelation between weeks. Web search peaked during the same weeks that the Rt was peaking although new deaths or new cases were not peaking during those dates. The extent to which online searches may reflect the actual epidemiological situation is discussed.

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Trends of Online Search of COVID-19 Related Terms in Cyprus

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Oral Health and Teledentistry Interest during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Oral Health and Teledentistry Interest during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Monitoring of cherry flowering phenology with Google Trends

Internet Search Effort on Covid-19 and the Underlying Public Interventions and Epidemiological Status

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