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Unveiling COVID-19’s Influence on Diet-Related Lifestyle: Insights from Google Trends Query Volumes

In Press, (this is not the final "Version of Record"). Available online 13 May, 2024
Author(s): Patricia Micheal, Nagaveni Shivshetty*, Jyoti Mukherjee, Venkata Giridhar Poosarla and Ajay Kumar Oli
Published on: 13 May, 2024

DOI: 10.2174/0115734013300417240430115211

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Abstract

Aim: This study aimed to showcase the particular lifestyle and behavioural pattern changes during the pandemic using Google Trends (GT).

Background: The pandemic hit by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) globally has brought basic living into the context of surprise. Since the lockdown and social restrictions, the population has faced many changes in their daily routine.

Objective: The purpose of the study was to demonstrate how COVID-19 has affected eating habits and lifestyle in India.

Method: A retrospective analysis was carried out with the aid of Google Trend Relative Search Volume (RSV) data obtained for interest areas, such as COVID-19 cases, symptoms, preference of medicines, choice of nutrients, reduced physical activity, and watching varied Over-the-top media service (OTT) platforms as the source of entertainment; these were the variables that were taken into consideration to derive correlation coefficient values.

Results: There was a strong positive correlation found between zinc and vitamin C, zinc and vitamin D, and vitamin C and D, which was 0.83, 0.78, and 0.72, respectively. Symmetrical observation has been observed in Netflix and Amazon Prime as 0.81; a notable negative correlation was found between COVID-19 and gym as -0.32.

Conclusion: This study can be used as a checkpoint list for future predictions and past timelines and how they have a cohabitant role in the spread of the epidemic and its line of mitigation strategies.

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