PubMed CrossRefĥ.Stress, self-injuries and suicide: India battles mental health crisis as COVID tally spikes. Initial psychological impact of COVID-19 and its correlates in Indian community: an online (FEEL-COVID) survey. PubMed CrossRefĤ.Varshney M, Parel JT, Raizada N, et al. The COVID-19 outbreak and Google searches: is it really the time to worry about global mental health? Brain Behav Immun. PubMed CrossRefģ.Misiak B, Szcześniak D, Koczanowicz L, et al. PubMed CrossRefĢ.Berger M, Wagner TH, Baker LC. These findings might indicate that Google users searching in Hindi are more resilient and have better adaptive coping strategies compared to Google users searching in English in India.ġ.Dubey S, Biswas P, Ghosh R, et al. Google users in Hindi also showed no significant increase in interest in the terms insomnia or suicide. Hindi users have shown a significantly higher interest in the term depression, but their interest in the keyword anxiety showed significant reduction with respect to the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in India. However, a discrepancy in interests in Google Trends keywords between English and Hindi users was found in the present study. 4 Moreover, media reports 5 also indicate a significant increase in suicide rates among the Indian population following the COVID-19 pandemic. These study findings are in agreement with the emerging scientific literature suggesting a significant increase in psychiatric morbidity among the Indian population following the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, a significant positive correlation was found between the SVI for all of the English search terms: depression, anxiety, insomnia, and suicide and the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in India. 009), there were no significant correlations for insomnia ( r = 0.059, P =. Whereas there was a significant negative correlation between the SVI for anxiety in Hindi and the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths ( r = −0.268, P =. There was also a significant positive correlation between the SVI for depression in Hindi and the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths ( r = 0.214, P =. Moreover, there were a higher number of searches for the terms suicide and depression compared to other search terms ( Figure 1). There were significant positive correlations between the SVI for all keywords in English and the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in India: depression ( r = 0.405, P =. Results were considered significant if the P value was less than. The Spearman rank correlation coefficients were analyzed in SPSS version 21 (IBM, Armonk, New York). The SVI was retrieved for the period between March 12, 2020, and June 13, 2020. Google Translate ( ) was used to convert keywords to Hindi. Google Trends ( ) was searched in India for the following keywords: suicide, depression, anxiety, and insomnia. 2, 3 The objective of this study was to use the Google Trends search volume index (SVI), a normalized value from 0 to 100, to understand whether changes in the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths are associated with SVI of contents associated with mental health in India. The internet is an important source of information, and Google search trends can inform public interests related to mental health. 1 Although, there is growing concern regarding the impact of the pandemic on mental health, little is known regarding how the psychiatric needs of the population have evolved along with the spread of COVID-19 across India. As a result of the emergence of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), socioeconomic crisis and psychological distress rapidly occurred across the world.
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