Interest in Home Birth During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis of Google Trends Data.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Nearly all (94%-99%) pregnant persons in developed countries search for pregnancy-related information online. The advent of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the associated restrictions in hospital policies may have pushed pregnant persons in the United States to consider giving birth at home to achieve their desired birth experience.

Methods

Google Trends is an open, rich source of real-time, anonymized, relative data on disease patterns and population behavior that provides data in the form of search volume index (SVI): the search volume for a queried term relative to overall search volume for a given time frame and geographic location. The SVI is normalized to a scale of 0 to 100. After the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemi

SUBMITTER: Cheng RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9115086 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature