Leveraging Google Trends to investigate the global public interest in rheumatoid arthritis

This study aims to investigate the global public interest in rheumatoid arthritis by evaluating search term popularity changes of the disease over a decade. Google Trends was applied to retrieve search popularity scores for the term ‘rheumatoid arthritis’ between January 2004 and December 2017, util...

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Published in:Rheumatology international 2019-08, Vol.39 (8), p.1439-1444
Main Authors: Wu, Guo-Cui, Tao, Sha-Sha, Zhao, Chan-Na, Mao, Yan-Mei, Wu, Qian, Dan, Yi-Lin, Pan, Hai-Feng
Format: Article
Language:English
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Arthritis, Rheumatoid - diagnosis
Arthritis, Rheumatoid - drug therapy
Arthritis, Rheumatoid - epidemiology
Health risk assessment
Humans
Internet - trends
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Public Health
Public Health - trends
Public interest
Public Opinion
Rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatology
Rheumatology - trends
Search Engine - trends
Seasons
Time Factors
Trends
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Summary:This study aims to investigate the global public interest in rheumatoid arthritis by evaluating search term popularity changes of the disease over a decade. Google Trends was applied to retrieve search popularity scores for the term ‘rheumatoid arthritis’ between January 2004 and December 2017, utilizing the category of “health”. Overall, relative searches volume for rheumatoid arthritis steadily decreased from January 2004 to December 2010, and then slowly rose from January 2011 to December 2017. There were significant seasonal variations in relative searches volume for the term ‘rheumatoid arthritis’ (Amplitude = 3.11; Phase: Month = 4.3; Low point: Month = 10.3; p 
ISSN:0172-8172
1437-160X
DOI:10.1007/s00296-019-04297-6