This paper is in the following e-collection/theme issue:

Infodemiology and Infoveillance (1274) JMIR Theme Issue: COVID-19 Special Issue (2391) Theme Issue: Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak Rapid Reports (1482) Outbreak and Pandemic Preparedness and Management (1675) Infoveillance, Infodemiology, Digital Disease Surveillance, Infodemic Management (1013) Infectious Diseases (non-STD/STI) (1485) Information Seeking, Information Needs (424) Information Retrieval (271)

Published on in Vol 23, No 5 (2021): May

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/22933, first published .
Information-Seeking Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic Across the United States: Longitudinal Analysis of Google Trends Data

Information-Seeking Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic Across the United States: Longitudinal Analysis of Google Trends Data

Information-Seeking Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic Across the United States: Longitudinal Analysis of Google Trends Data

Authors of this article:

Tichakunda Mangono1 Author Orcid Image ;   Peter Smittenaar1 Author Orcid Image ;   Yael Caplan1 Author Orcid Image ;   Vincent S Huang1 Author Orcid Image ;   Staci Sutermaster1 Author Orcid Image ;   Hannah Kemp1 Author Orcid Image ;   Sema K Sgaier1, 2, 3 Author Orcid Image
Article Authors Cited by (47) Tweetations (18) Metrics

Journals

  1. . Twittering Back Pain. The Back Letter 2021;36(7):73 View
  2. Miller R, Doria-Anderson N, Shibanuma A, Sakamoto J, Yumino A, Jimba M. Evaluating Local Multilingual Health Care Information Environments on the Internet: A Pilot Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2021;18(13):6836 View
  3. Drachal K, González Cortés D. Estimation of Lockdowns’ Impact on Well-Being in Selected Countries: An Application of Novel Bayesian Methods and Google Search Queries Data. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022;20(1):421 View
  4. Harb M, Silva L, Ayass T, Vijaykumar N, Silva M, Francês C. Dendrograms for Clustering in Multivariate Analysis: Applications for COVID-19 Vaccination Infodemic Data in Brazil. Computation 2022;10(9):166 View
  5. Link E, Baumann E, Czerwinski F, Rosset M, Suhr R. Of seekers and nonseekers: Characteristics of Covid‐19‐related information‐seeking behaviors. World Medical & Health Policy 2022;14(2):276 View
  6. Jones K, Steyn F, Wallace L. A longitudinal descriptive assessment of US college COVID-19 dashboards. Journal of American College Health 2024;72(3):933 View
  7. Kłak A, Furmańczyk K, Nowicka P, Mańczak M, Barańska A, Religioni U, Siekierska A, Ambroziak M, Chłopek M. The Relationship between Searches for COVID-19 Vaccines and Dynamics of Vaccinated People in Poland: An Infodemiological Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022;19(20):13275 View
  8. Wang Y, Jaidka K. Confirmation Bias in Seeking Climate Information: Employing Relative Search Volume to Predict Partisan Climate Opinions. Social Science Computer Review 2024;42(1):4 View
  9. Harb M, Silva L, Vijaykumar N, Silva M, Francês C. An Analysis of the Deleterious Impact of the Infodemic during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: A Case Study Considering Possible Correlations with Socioeconomic Aspects of Brazilian Demography. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022;19(6):3208 View
  10. Hsu W. Undergraduate Students’ Online Health Information-Seeking Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2021;18(24):13250 View
  11. Chae A. #StopAsianHate: A Content Analysis of Public Library Statements Released in Response to Anti-Asian Hate. Public Library Quarterly 2023;42(5):534 View
  12. Maina M, Pillay Gonzalez S. The emotional toll of the ‘hard’ lockdown: an analysis of diary entries from Gauteng, South Africa. South African Geographical Journal 2022;104(3):328 View
  13. Nazar W, Niedoszytko M. Changes in Air-Pollution-Related Information-Seeking Behaviour during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022;19(9):5613 View
  14. Wang Z, Xiao H, Lin L, Tang K, Unger J. Geographic social inequalities in information-seeking response to the COVID-19 pandemic in China: longitudinal analysis of Baidu Index. Scientific Reports 2022;12(1) View
  15. Korshakova E, Marsh J, Kleinberg S. Health Information Sourcing and Health Knowledge Quality: Repeated Cross-sectional Survey. JMIR Formative Research 2022;6(9):e39274 View
  16. Vidal-Silva C, Barriga N, Ortega-Cordero F, Gonzalez-Lopez J, Jimenez-Quintana C, Pezoa-Fuentes C, Veas-Gonzalez I. Developing Computing Competencies Without Restrictions. IEEE Access 2022;10:106568 View
  17. Xu Y, Margolin D. Collective Information Seeking During a Health Crisis : Predictors of Google Trends During COVID-19. Health Communication 2024;39(2):388 View
  18. Guazzini A, Pesce A, Gino F, Duradoni M. How the COVID-19 Pandemic Changed Adolescents’ Use of Technologies, Sense of Community, and Loneliness: A Retrospective Perception Analysis. Behavioral Sciences 2022;12(7):228 View
  19. Gao J, Raza S, Yousaf M, Shah A, Hussain I, Malik A. How Does Digital Media Search for COVID-19 Influence Vaccine Hesitancy? Exploring the Trade-off between Google Trends, Infodemics, Conspiracy Beliefs and Religious Fatalism. Vaccines 2023;11(1):114 View
  20. Wilding S, O'Connor D, Ferguson E, Wetherall K, Cleare S, O'Carroll R, Robb K, O'Connor R. Information seeking, mental health and loneliness: Longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 mental health and wellbeing study. Psychiatry Research 2022;317:114876 View
  21. Vismara M, Vitella D, Biolcati R, Ambrosini F, Pirola V, Dell'Osso B, Truzoli R. The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Searching for Health-Related Information and Cyberchondria on the General Population in Italy. Frontiers in Psychiatry 2021;12 View
  22. Hoyt D, Hiserodt M, Gold A, Milligan M, Otto M. Is Ignorance Bliss? Examining the Effect of News Media Exposure on Anxiety and Depression During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease 2022;210(2):91 View
  23. Melissa M, Jillian J, Jennifer E, Daniel G, Andrew P. Review and thematic analysis of guiding principles for effective crisis communication using social media. Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology 2022;14(2):72 View
  24. Ma S, Sun Y, Yang S. Using Internet Search Data to Forecast COVID-19 Trends: A Systematic Review. Analytics 2022;1(2):210 View
  25. Shi C, So M, Stelmach S, Earn A, Earn D, Dushoff J. From science to politics: COVID-19 information fatigue on YouTube. BMC Public Health 2022;22(1) View
  26. Zhu Z, Yang K. Virtual community users’ travel information-seeking continuance intention: an empirical study based on the cognitive load theory and flow theory. Journal of Systems and Information Technology 2023;25(1):91 View
  27. Golos A, Guntuku S, Piltch-Loeb R, Leininger L, Simanek A, Kumar A, Albrecht S, Dowd J, Jones M, Buttenheim A, Taskin N. Dear Pandemic: A topic modeling analysis of COVID-19 information needs among readers of an online science communication campaign. PLOS ONE 2023;18(3):e0281773 View
  28. Link E, Baumann E, Leuppert R. Clarifying the Relationship Between Information Seeking and Avoidance: Longitudinal Analyses of Information Behaviors and Their Normative Influences. Health Communication 2024;39(5):1038 View
  29. Chu A, Chong A, Lai N, Tiwari A, So M. Enhancing the Predictive Power of Google Trends Data Through Network Analysis: Infodemiology Study of COVID-19. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 2023;9:e42446 View
  30. Alzghaibi H. People behavioral during health information searching in COVID-19 era: a review. Frontiers in Public Health 2023;11 View
  31. Bautista J, Zhang Y, Gwizdka J, Chang Y. Consumers’ longitudinal health information needs and seeking: a scoping review. Health Promotion International 2023;38(4) View
  32. Yeung A, Parvanov E, Horbańczuk J, Kletecka-Pulker M, Kimberger O, Willschke H, Atanasov A. Public interest in different types of masks and its relationship with pandemic and policy measures during the COVID-19 pandemic: a study using Google Trends data. Frontiers in Public Health 2023;11 View
  33. Piltch-Loeb R, James R, Albrecht S, Buttenheim A, Dowd J, Kumar A, Jones M, Leininger L, Simanek A, Aronowitz S. What Were the Information Voids? A Qualitative Analysis of Questions Asked by Dear Pandemic Readers between August 2020-August 2021. Journal of Health Communication 2023;28(sup1):25 View
  34. Alhafez L, Rubio-Rico L, Diez-Bosch M. Healthcare professionals’ editorial opinions on communicating with the public: shifting social media hesitancies. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 2023;10(1) View
  35. Gupta S, Mukherjee N, Mondal G. COVID-19-related Psychosocial Information: Findings from a Public Online Search Engine. Indian Journal of Private Psychiatry 2023;17(2):74 View
  36. Marty R, Ramos-Maqueda M, Khan N, Reichert A. The evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of google searches. Scientific Reports 2023;13(1) View
  37. Anaduaka U, Oladosu A. School closures and well-being-related topic searches on Google during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa. BMC Public Health 2023;23(1) View
  38. Clark E, Neumann S, Hopkins S, Kostopoulos A, Hagerman L, Dobbins M. Changes to Public Health Surveillance Methods Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Scoping Review. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 2024;10:e49185 View
  39. Johnson N, Brann M, Scott S, Bute J. “I’m Not Comfortable With COVID, But …”: Dilemmas and Decision-Making to Mitigate Risks Among Mothers Who Gave Birth During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Qualitative Health Research 2024;34(6):517 View
  40. McKinley C, Luo Y, Brennan J. Linking Health Consciousness and Social Media Information Seeking to College Students COVID-19 Prevention Behavior: Examining a Modified IMBP Model. Western Journal of Communication 2023:1 View
  41. Zimmermann B. Swiss residents’ information behavior perceptions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal qualitative study. Social Science & Medicine 2024:116647 View
  42. Warraich N, Irfan M, Ali I. Understanding Students’ Mobile Technology Usage Behavior During COVID-19 Through Use & Gratification and Theory of Planned Behavior. Sage Open 2024;14(2) View
  43. Barham A, Raheem O. Comment on: search traffic for inflatable penile prosthesis increased following the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States: a Google Trends analysis. International Journal of Impotence Research 2024 View

Books/Policy Documents

  1. Wilcox S, Huzo O, Minhas A, Walters N, Adada J, Pennington M, Roseme L, Mohammed D, Dusic A, Zeine R. Handbook of Research on Cyberchondria, Health Literacy, and the Role of Media in Society’s Perception of Medical Information. View
  2. Sakly H, Al-Sayed A, Said M, Loussaief C, Seekins J, Sakly R. Trends of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data for E-Health. View