Abstract
At the time of writing, the number of global con-firmed COVID-19 cases has topped 18.8 million with over 707,000 deaths (1). The Internet plays a pivotal role during this unprecedented pandemic (2,3) in the way that people predominantly use the Internet to contact each other and acquire information due to sweeping stay-at-home orders and strict lockdown restrictions imposed by au-thorities around the world. Health-related mental health issues could lead to spikes in online infor-mation search (4, 5). Therefore, this letter aims to investigate whether the rise of regional COVID cases is correlated with the increase in residents’ online searches of mental health-related infor-mation. An unexpected finding emerged from the analysis.
Document Type
Letter to the Editor
Date of Publication
2020
ISSN
22516085
Volume
49
Issue
10
School
School of Business and Law / Graduate Research School
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Publisher
Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) Journals Publishing House
Recommended Citation
Zhang, T. (2020). Correlations between COVID-19 case growth and mental health-related internet search: An unexpected finding. Retrieved from https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/9022
Comments
Zhang, T. (2020). Correlations between covid-19 case growth and mental health-related internet search: An unexpected finding. Iranian Journal of Public Health, 49(10), 2001-2002. https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/view/21736