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Monitoring Public Health During the 2023 Maui Wildfire Using Google Search Trends.

Wildfires pose acute and long-term threats to public health. This study used Google Trends to assess real-time public interest in health-related topics before, during and after the August 2023 Maui wildfires. Search terms were grouped into four categories: health care access, physical health, mental health, and help-seeking behavior. Daily search interest scores were aggregated and analyzed across three periods: pre-wildfire, wildfire, and post-wildfire. Findings revealed that physical health and health care access search interest remained relatively stable throughout the study period, with no

A novel clinical trials search tool with iterative and geospatial capabilities.

SCOPE: ClinicalTrials.gov serves as a key resource for information on ongoing and completed clinical trials. To advance equitable promotion and broaden access, the Clinical Trials Search Tool (CTST) was developed to build on ClinicalTrials.gov data, offering a more comprehensive index with user-friendly geospatial, demographic, and socioeconomic features. AIM: To create a web-based Clinical Trials Search Tool (CTST) that builds on ClinicalTrials.gov data, offering custom querying, reporting functions, and interactive geospatial mapping capabilities. METHODS: The CTST was built using a rapid,

Evaluating the incremental value of Google Trends for provincial dengue surveillance in Vietnam: a medical informatics time-series study.

BACKGROUND: Internet search data are increasingly used to complement infectious disease surveillance, but their operational value depends on whether they add decision-relevant information beyond routine case reports. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate Google Trends as an auxiliary digital signal for weekly dengue surveillance in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province, Vietnam, focusing on signal availability, temporal alignment, incremental predictive value, and delayed-reporting use cases. METHODS: We analysed 209 consecutive weekly observations from 30 December 2018 to 25 December 2022, including reported dengue ca

Social listening for the identification of information voids on early childhood caries based on Google search data.

PURPOSE: This study aims to identify possible early childhood caries (ECC)-related information voids in different countries using both quantitative and qualitative approaches. METHODS: Data were collected from the Google Trends platform using topics related to a taxonomy previously developed. Searches were analyzed for two time periods: the last 7 days and the last 30 days before the data collection dates. Two independent investigators classified search data from 21 countries as either related to ECC or not. For ECC-related terms, relative search volume, relative velocity, and relative accele

Impact of the pandemic and its containment measures in Europe upon aspects of affective impairments: a Google Trends informetrics study.

BACKGROUND: In late 2019, a new virus began spreading in Wuhan, China. By the end of 2021, more than 260 million people worldwide had been infected and 5.2 million people had died because of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Various countermeasures have been implemented to contain the infections, depending on the country, infection prevalence, and political and infrastructural resources. The pandemic and the containment measures have induced diverse psychological burdens. Using internet queries as a proxy, this study examines the psychological consequences on a

Analyzing web searches for axial spondyloarthritis in Germany: a novel approach to exploring interests and unmet needs.

Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is an underdiagnosed condition with a high disease burden. Due to delayed diagnosis and limited access to specialist care, conventional health data might not sufficiently capture the perspective of affected individuals. The aim of this study was to assess public interest, unmet needs, and disease burden of axSpA in Germany through the analysis of thematic, geographic, and temporal patterns in national web search data. Google Ads Keyword Planner was used to identify axSpA-related keywords and their monthly search volume in Germany between January 2017 and Decembe

Ok Google: Using virtual assistants for data collection in psychological and behavioral research.

Because of the increasing popularity of voice-controlled virtual assistants, such as Amazon's Alexa and Google Assistant, they should be considered a new medium for psychological and behavioral research. We developed Survey Mate, an extension of Google Assistant, and conducted two studies to analyze the reliability and validity of data collected through this medium. In the first study, we assessed validated procrastination and shyness scales as well as social desirability indicators for both the virtual assistant and an online questionnaire. The results revealed comparable internal consistency

What People Search for When Browsing "Doctor Google." An Analysis of Search Trends in Italy after the Law on Pain.

Italy adopted a law on chronic pain in March 2010, which focused on detection and management of this symptom, that affects approximately 25% … issuing law on chronic pain management in March 2010. Our results suggest the relevance of internet search engines, like "Doctor Google," to translate and share knowledge about specific conditions, diseases, and treatment alternatives, with a call to a raise in authoritative scientific voices on the topic, especially when it comes to widespread conditions like …

Osteotomy around the knee: Assessment of quality, content and readability of online information.

BACKGROUND: As knee osteotomy surgery becomes increasingly accessible, more patients may turn to the Internet for information. This study examined the source, quality, content and readability of online information regarding osteotomy around the knee. METHODS: The first 70 websites returned by the top four search engines were identified using the key words: "knee osteotomy" and "high tibial osteotomy." The websites were categorised by type and assessed using the DISCERN score, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) benchmark criteria and a novel Knee Osteotomy-Specific Score (KOSS)…

Неортодоксальные альтернативные методы лечения спровоцированы для лечения болезни Лайма.

Некоторые пациенты с необъяснимыми с медицинской точки зрения симптомами или альтернативными медицинскими диагнозами подозревают, что они хронически страдают от болезни Лайма, переносимого клещами. Эти пациенты, как правило, становятся объектом альтернативных методов лечения. Цель этого исследования состояла в том, чтобы определить и охарактеризовать спектр неортодоксальных альтернативных методов лечения, предлагаемых пациентам с диагнозом болезни Лайма. МЕТОДЫ: Поиски в Интернете с использованием поисковой системы Google были проведены для выявления веб-сайтов клиник и служб, которые продавал

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BACKGROUND: Some patients with medically unexplained symptoms or alternative medical diagnoses suspect that they chronically suffer from the … vertised to patients with a diagnosis of Lyme disease. METHODS: Internet searches using the Google search engine were performed to identify the websites of clinics and services that marketed nonantimicrobial therapies for Lyme disease. We subsequently used the PubMed search engine to identify any scientific studies evaluating such treatments for Lyme disease. …

Evolving Public Attention to Steatotic Liver Disease: A 20-Year Analysis (2004-2024): Surging Steatotic Liver Disease Focus.

BACKGROUND: Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) affects over one third of the global population and is closely linked to gastrointestinal, oncological, and cardiovascular diseases. As the most common cause of steatotic liver disease (SLD), MASLD is often referred to as "fatty liver" in general health information searches. With the Internet becoming a primary source of healthcare information, this study aimed to evaluate global and regional public interest in steatotic liver disease using Google Trends data from January 2004 to December 2024. METHODS: A comprehensi

Public Interest in Dermatological Issues After the 2023 Türkiye Earthquake: A Comparative Google Trends Analysis.

OBJECTIVES: The February 6, 2023 Türkiye earthquake caused widespread destruction and significantly affected public health priorities. This study aimed to analyze the impact of the disaster on public interest in dermatological issues, using Google Trends. METHODS: Two dermatologists selected 10 dermatological topics based on textbooks and Google Trends data availability. Search trends in Hatay, Kahramanmaraş, and Adıyaman were analyzed for 52 weeks before and after the earthquake. Topics with a significant interest change due to the earthquake in at least 2 of 3 provinces ("dermatology" and "

Internet Health Resources for Diabetic Foot Search: The Content, Quality, and Readability of Information on Web Sites.

BACKGROUND: As the incidence of diabetes mellitus increases, the incidence of diabetic foot also increases. This situation, which may lead t … he keyword diabetic foot were determined on Google Trends. Selected keywords were searched in three search engines, and the results were examined. Web sites were classified into five subcategories (nongovernmental health institution, governmental institution, academic, blog, and university) and evaluated with an information content scale (ICS) based on the lite …

Online information-seeking behavior of Iranian web users on Google about Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP): an infodemiology study.

BACKGROUNDS: Previous studies have indicated that users' health information-seeking behavior can serve as a reflection of current health issues within a community. This study aimed to investigate the online information-seeking behavior of Iranian web users on Google about Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP). METHODS: Google Trends (GTr) was utilized to collect big data from the internet searches conducted by Iranian web users. A focus group discussion was employed to identify users' selected keywords when searching for HSP. Additionally, keywords related to the disease's symptoms were selected bas

Modeling Lower-Order Statistics to Enable Decoy-Free FDR Estimation in Proteomics.

One of the chief objectives in mass spectrometry-based peptide identification in proteomics is the statistical validation of top-scoring pep … a single parameter to actual data. The framework was tested on multiple different data sets and two search engines. We present evidence that our method is comparable to and occasionally outperforms popular decoy-free and decoy-based methods in FDR estimation.

Popularity of Surgical and Pharmacological Obesity Treatment Methods Searched by Google Users: the Retrospective Analysis of Google Trends Statistics in 2004-2022.

PURPOSE: Many individuals search for obesity treatment options on the Internet. We aimed to analyze the popularity of pharmacological and surgical obesity treatment methods searched by Google users. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We used Google Trends to identify topics representing the following: recommended surgical methods (n = 9), recommended pharmacological methods (n = 10), and not recommended pharmacological methods (n = 34). The data was generated for 2004-2022 and 2020-2022. Relative search volume (RSV) was adjusted using "Gastric bypass surgery" as a benchmark. We analyzed the geographical a

Mapping of Land Cover with Optical Images, Supervised Algorithms, and Google Earth Engine.

Crops and ecosystems constantly change, and risks are derived from heavy rains, hurricanes, droughts, human activities, climate change, etc. This has caused additional damages with economic and social impacts. Natural phenomena have caused the loss of crop areas, which endangers food security, destruction of the habitat of species of flora and fauna, and flooding of populations, among others. To help in the solution, it is necessary to develop strategies that maximize agricultural production as well as reduce land wear, environmental impact, and contamination of water resources. The generation