Document Type
Letter to the Editor
Publication Title
Iranian Journal of Public Health
ISSN
22516085
Volume
49
Issue
10
First Page
2001
Last Page
2002
Publisher
Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) Journals Publishing House
School
School of Business and Law / Graduate Research School
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.
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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