The Popularity of the Biologically-Based Therapies During Coronavirus Pandemic Among the Google Users in the USA, UK, Germany, Italy and France

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dc.authoridGunalan, Elif/0000-0002-3644-5066
dc.authoridKaya Cebioglu, Irem/0000-0002-0135-2011
dc.authoridConak, Ozge/0000-0001-5381-4022
dc.contributor.authorGunalan, Elif
dc.contributor.authorCebiog, Irem Kaya
dc.contributor.authorConak, Ozge
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-26T17:35:00Z
dc.date.available2025-03-26T17:35:00Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.departmentİstanbul Esenyurt Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractObject: The aim of this retrospective infodemiological study was to evaluate people?s interests in biologicallybased (B-B) complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies such as herbs, foods, and supplements during the coronavirus pandemic via analysis of Google search engine statistics. Design & settings: The category, period, and regions selected in the Google Trends were ?health,? ?15 January?15 May 2020,? in the United States of America (USA), the United Kingdom (UK), Germany, Italy, and France, respectively. The most commonly searched herbs, foods and supplements (n = 32) during the pandemic were determined from a pool of keywords (n = 1286) based on the terms? relative search volumes (RSVs) within the last five years. Correlation analyses were conducted to investigate associations between coronavirus-related parameters with each keyword?s RSV for each country. Selected keywords (n = 25) were analyzed using the gtrendsR package in the R programming language; the ggplot2 package was used to visualize the data, the Prophet package was used to estimate the time series, and the dplyr package was used to create the data frame. Results: Significantly strong positive correlations were identified between daily RSVs of the terms ?black seed,? ?vitamin C,? ?zinc,? and ?quercetin,? and search queries for ?coronavirus? and ?COVID-19? in the USA (Spearman?s correlation coefficient > 0.8, p < 0.05), and between the RSVs of the terms ?vitamin C? and ?zinc,? and daily search queries for ?coronavirus? and/or ?COVID-19? in the UK (Spearman?s correlation coefficient > 0.8, p < 0.05). Conclusion: Google Trends can be a beneficial tool for following public interest in identifying outbreak-related misinformation, and scientific studies and statements from authorities and the media play a potential role in driving internet searches.
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ctim.2021.102682
dc.identifier.issn0965-2299
dc.identifier.issn1873-6963
dc.identifier.pmid33601014
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85101805473
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ctim.2021.102682
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14704/999
dc.identifier.volume58
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000647049100021
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMed
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherChurchill Livingstone
dc.relation.ispartofComplementary Therapies in Medicine
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_WOS_20250326
dc.subjectCoronavirus; COVID-19; Functional foods; Immunity; Supplements; Misinformation
dc.titleThe Popularity of the Biologically-Based Therapies During Coronavirus Pandemic Among the Google Users in the USA, UK, Germany, Italy and France
dc.typeArticle

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