Did the COVID-19 pandemic impact help-seeking behavior for seizure management? A Google Trends™ study.

ABSTRACT: Google Trends™ is a popular tool for analyzing healthcare-seeking patterns based on observed changes in the relative search volume (RSV) of the queries made on the Google™ search engine. Google Trends™ was increasingly utilized during the pandemic to assess the impact on mental health, risk communication, the impact of media coverage, and preparedness prediction. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on help-seeking behaviors for seizures and/or epilepsy by assessing the changes in seizure-related online queries in periods before and since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic on Google Trends™. We compared the RSV volumes in the year prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic against weekly COVID-19 positive cases for each

SUBMITTER: Syed MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8669502 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature