Using Google Trends to Gauge the Popularity of Global Surgery Worldwide
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 209
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Interest Levels
研究概览
简要总结
Introduction Global surgery is a growing movement worldwide, but its expansion has not been quantified. Google Search is the most popular search engine worldwide, and Google Trends analyzes its queries to determine popularity trends. The investigators used Google Trends to analyze the regional and temporal popularity of global surgery (GS). Furthermore, the investigators compared GS with global health (GH) to understand if the two were correlated.
Methods The investigators searched the terms "global surgery" and "global health" on Google Trends (Google Inc., CA, USA) from January 2004 to May 2021. The investigators identified time trends and compared the two search terms using SPSS v26 (IBM, WA, USA) to run summary descriptive analyses and Wilcoxon rank-sum tests.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Other
- 时间视角
- Retrospective
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Data point from Google Trends concerning Global Surgery
- •Data point from Google Trends concerning Global Health
- •Data point from Google Trends between January 2004 and May 2021
排除标准
- •Data point from Google Trends before January 2004
- •Data point from Google Trends after May 2021
- •Data point from Google Trends outside the scope of Global Surgery or Global Health
结局指标
主要结局
Interest Levels
时间窗: January 2004 to May 2021
Level of interest in Global Surgery based on Google Trends
次要结局
未报告次要终点