Assessing self-medication for obstructive airway disease during COVID-19 using Google Trends

Sabina Sahanic; Anna Boehm; Alex Pizzini; Thomas Sonnweber; Magdalena Aichner; Guenter Weiss; Judith Loeffler-Ragg; Ivan Tancevski

doi:10.1183/13993003.02851-2020

Assessing self-medication for obstructive airway disease during COVID-19 using Google Trends

Eur Respir J. 2020 Nov 19;56(5):2002851. doi: 10.1183/13993003.02851-2020. Print 2020 Nov.

Authors

Sabina Sahanic^{1

2}, Anna Boehm^{1

2}, Alex Pizzini³, Thomas Sonnweber¹, Magdalena Aichner¹, Guenter Weiss¹, Judith Loeffler-Ragg¹, Ivan Tancevski¹

Affiliations

¹ Dept of Internal Medicine II, Infectious Diseases, Pneumology, Rheumatology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
² S. Sahanic and A. Boehm contributed equally to this manuscript.
³ Dept of Internal Medicine II, Infectious Diseases, Pneumology, Rheumatology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria alex.pizzini@i-med.ac.at.

Abstract

Google Trends reveals public information-seeking for self-medication in patients with obstructive respiratory disease during the COVID-19 outbreak, illustrating the urgent need to implement digital health support in patients with respiratory disease https://bit.ly/2GRccSU

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / epidemiology*
Hospitalization
Humans
Information Seeking Behavior
Internet Use*
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / complications
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / drug therapy*
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / psychology*
SARS-CoV-2*
Search Engine
Self Medication / psychology*