News trends and web search query of HIV/AIDS in Hong Kong.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The HIV epidemic in Hong Kong has worsened in recent years, with major contributions from high-risk subgroup of men who have sex with men (MSM). Internet use is prevalent among the majority of the local population, where they sought health information online. This study examines the impacts of HIV/AIDS and MSM news coverage on web search query in Hong Kong.

Methods

Relevant news coverage about HIV/AIDS and MSM from January 1st, 2004 to December 31st, 2014 was obtained from the WiseNews databse. News trends were created by computing the number of relevant articles by type, topic, place of origin and sub-populations. We then obtained relevant search volumes from Google and analysed causality between news trends and Google Trends using Granger Causality test and orth

SUBMITTER: Chiu APY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5602633 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature