Google Trends of Global Surgery

Association of Future African Neurosurgeons, Yaounde, Cameroon

Status: Completed

Conditions: Global Surgery; Global Health

Treatments: Other: Investigation of Global Interest in Global Surgery

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05012085

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Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 209 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 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

Exclusion criteria

• 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