Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, 80-210 Gdańsk, Poland.
Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology, 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jul 22;19(15):8934. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19158934.
The amount of data available online is constantly increasing, including search behavior and tracking trends in domains such as Google. Analyzing the data helps to predict patient needs and epidemiological events more accurately. Our study aimed to identify dermatology-related terms that occur seasonally and any search anomalies during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
The data were gathered using Google Trends, with 69 entries between January-2010 and December-2020 analyzed. We conducted the Seasonal Mann-Kendal Test to determine the strength of trends. The month with the highest seasonal component (RSV) and the lowest seasonal component (RSV) was indicated for every keyword. Groups of keywords occurring together regularly at specific periods of the year were shown.
We found that some topics were seasonally searched in winter (e.g., herpes, scabies, candida) and others in summer (e.g., erythema, warts, urticaria).
Interestingly, downward trends in searches on sexually transmitted diseases in comparison with increased infection rates reported officially show a strong need for improved sexual education in Poland. There were no significant differences in trends for coronavirus-related cutaneous symptoms during 2020. We have shown that the seasonality of dermatologically related terms searched in Poland via Google did not differ significantly during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
网上可获取的数据量在不断增加，包括搜索行为和在谷歌等领域的跟踪趋势。分析这些数据有助于更准确地预测患者需求和流行病学事件。我们的研究旨在识别与皮肤病相关的季节性术语，以及在 SARS-CoV-2 大流行期间的任何搜索异常。
使用 Google Trends 收集数据，分析了 2010 年 1 月至 2020 年 12 月的 69 条记录。我们进行了季节性 Mann-Kendal 检验，以确定趋势的强度。对于每个关键词，都指出了季节性成分最高的月份（RSV）和季节性成分最低的月份（RSV）。还显示了在一年中特定时间段内经常一起出现的关键词组。
我们发现一些主题在冬季（如疱疹、疥疮、念珠菌）和夏季（如红斑、疣、荨麻疹）有季节性搜索。
有趣的是，与官方报道的感染率相比，性传播疾病的搜索量呈下降趋势，这表明波兰迫切需要加强性教育。在 2020 年，与冠状病毒相关的皮肤症状的趋势没有显著差异。我们表明，在 SARS-CoV-2 大流行期间，通过 Google 在波兰搜索的与皮肤病相关的术语的季节性没有显著差异。
