The association between interest of nutritional supplements and COVID-19 pandemic - evidence from Google Trends.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Due to the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020, the interest of nutritional supplements has emerged. Limited data are available on how the COVID-19 pandemic affects the search interest in nutritional supplements in Taiwan and worldwide. The study aims to investigate changes in public search interest of nutritional supplements pre- and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

Our World in Data dataset was used to collect both global and local (Taiwan) number of COVID-19 newly confirmed cases and deaths. Google Trends search query was being used to obtain relative search volumes (RSVs) covering a timeframe between 2019 to 2022. Spearman's rank-order correlation coefficients were used to measure relationships between confirmed new cases an

SUBMITTER: Lin LY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10771707 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature