Assessing Public Interest in Mpox via Google Trends, YouTube, and TikTok

Nicholas Comeau; Alyssa Abdelnour; Kurt Ashack

doi:10.2196/48827

Assessing Public Interest in Mpox via Google Trends, YouTube, and TikTok

JMIR Dermatol. 2023 Sep 6:6:e48827. doi: 10.2196/48827.

Authors

Nicholas Comeau¹, Alyssa Abdelnour¹, Kurt Ashack¹

Affiliation

¹ Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Grand Rapids, MI, United States.

PMID: 37672322
PMCID: PMC10512109
DOI: 10.2196/48827

Abstract

Public response to the recent Mpox outbreak was analyzed using internet search trends and social media posts.

Keywords: Google Trends; Mpox; STD; STI; TikTok; YouTube; awareness; communicable; dermatologist; dermatologists; dermatology; infectious; information behavior; information behaviour; information quality; information seeking; interest; internet; monkeypox; outbreak; outbreaks; search; sexual transmission; sexually transmitted; sexually transmitted disease; sexually transmitted infection; social media.

©Nicholas Comeau, Alyssa Abdelnour, Kurt Ashack. Originally published in JMIR Dermatology (http://derma.jmir.org), 06.09.2023.