Decreased global online interest in obesity from 2004 to 2021: An infodemiology study

Tantengco, Ourlad Alzeus G.

doi:10.1016/j.obmed.2022.100389

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“…Increased PA also constitutes the main element of prevention of obesity and metabolic diseases (including type 2 diabetes) ( 2 ). Due to the epidemic of obesity among children worldwide, activities aimed at health promotion and taking up physical activity are extremely significant ( 6 ).…”

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Sports activity and changes in physical fitness of Polish children and adolescents: OSF study

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BackgroundPhysical activity promotion programs for children and adolescents should constitute the basis of any national health policy aiming to improve physical fitness, which is a significant health indicator in children, adolescents, adults as well as elderly persons.MethodsThe study included 1,230 children and adolescents aged 8–16 years (60.1% of girls) from Poland. Five hundred and twenty-seven persons covered by the survey (42.8%) participated in physical activity promotion called “Athletics for All!” (AFA) as an experimental group and 703 peers not participating in any forms of physical extra-curricular activities as a control group. Participants were measured for basic anthropometric parameters and body mass indices were calculated: Body Mass Index (BMI) and Ponderal Index (PI). Evaluation of physical fitness was made using the OSF Test (3 × 10 m shuttle run, standing broad jump, 1 kg medicine ball overhead throw, 4-min run). Comparative analysis between the experimental and control groups was carried out using the T-test for independent samples. Analysis of correlations between quantitative variables was performed with Pearson's r coefficient.ResultsStatistically significant differences in all the tests were noted between the experimental group (AFA) and the control group in favor of the former one. Taking into account reference ranges of BMI created according to the latest Polish norms, statistically significant differences were noted between the subgroups in all physical fitness tests. As far as PI is concerned, in the AFA group significant differences were noted in all physical fitness tests between subgroups created in accordance with the aforementioned norms.ConclusionThe findings of our study show that it is necessary to introduce physical activity promotion programs for children and adolescents. Such programs should constitute the basis of national health policy aiming at improving physical fitness among young people.

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“…This drop in online search interest might be due to shifting concerns from HIV to Covid-19 during the pandemic. This reduction parallels the decrease in online interest in other non-covid chronic diseases such as obesity, cancer, and rheumatic and ophthalmologic diseases [31][32][33][34][35]. Cancer screening online searches have significantly reduced during the pandemic [32].…”

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Global Online Interest in HIV/AIDS care Services in the time of COVID-19: A Google Trends Analysis

2022

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The Covid-19 pandemic has compounded the challenge of HIV/AIDS elimination, creating difficulties in accessing HIV care services such as early testing and treatment. This paper characterized the global online interest in HIV care services-related search terms before and during the pandemic. Global online search interest for HIV was measured using the Google Trends™ database. Spearman’s rank-order correlation correlated country-specific characteristics and HIV prevalence data with the search volume index (SVI). We found a significant decrease in the global online search interest for HIV/AIDS care services-related search terms during the Covid-19 pandemic. The top countries with the highest online interest for “HIV/AIDS” search terms were Zambia, Eswatini, Malawi, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe. In addition, search volume indices for HIV correlated positively with HIV prevalence and negatively with GDP, GDP per capita, and the number of physicians. This result highlights that resource-poor countries with a high prevalence of HIV have a high online interest in HIV/AIDS. Therefore, there is a need to improve internet access, the quality of HIV-related health information, and online health literacy to improve health-seeking behavior, especially in areas with a high disease burden. Overall, our study shows that the infodemiologic approach through Google Trends™ can be used to assess the online interest of the public toward HIV infection and related healthcare services. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10461-022-03933-w.

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“…SVIs are normalized based on the location and time and are given a value from 0 to 100, with 100 representing peak interest for a search topic. SVI has been used as a proxy measure for the health-seeking behavior of the public ( Perez et al, 2021 , Tantengco, 2021 , Tantengco, 2022 ),…”

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Decreased global online interest in obesity from 2004 to 2021: An infodemiology study

Cited by 10 publications

References 34 publications

Sports activity and changes in physical fitness of Polish children and adolescents: OSF study

Sports activity and changes in physical fitness of Polish children and adolescents: OSF study

Global Online Interest in HIV/AIDS care Services in the time of COVID-19: A Google Trends Analysis

Global online interest in cervical cancer care in the time of COVID-19: An infodemiology study

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