Impact of global public health days on online health-information-seeking behavior related to substance use: An analysis of five-year data.

ABSTRACT: The United Nations Organizations observe various global public health days (GPHDs) (also known as world days) throughout the year. We aimed to assess the impact of GPSDs on online health information-seeking behavior related to substance use in the Indian context. We used the Google Trends data for this study using standard guidelines. We conducted a topic search for the query "Substance abuse" to capture online information-seeking behavior (OHISB) for substance use disorder-related searches. The data were analyzed using the Joinpoint Regression software. Joinpoint regression model analysis was conducted to determine the statistically significant daily percent change (DPC) in the RSV trend. We found that there were significant changes in OHISB for substance use-related disorders on the Inte

SUBMITTER: Singh S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10898532 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature