Just Google it! Impact of media coverage of an outbreak of high-level azithromycin-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae on online searches, and attendances, testing and diagnoses at sexual health clinics in England between 2015 and 2016: an interrupted time series analysis using surveillance data
| العنوان: | Just Google it! Impact of media coverage of an outbreak of high-level azithromycin-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae on online searches, and attendances, testing and diagnoses at sexual health clinics in England between 2015 and 2016: an interrupted time series analysis using surveillance data |
|---|---|
| المؤلفون: | Christa Smolarchuk, Hamish Mohammed, Katy Town, Andrew Lee, Anthony Nardone, Janet Wilson, Gwenda Hughes, Martina Furegato, Helen Fifer |
| المصدر: | Sexually Transmitted Infections. 95:594-601 |
| بيانات النشر: | BMJ, 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Descriptive statistics, business.industry, Outbreak, Media coverage, Dermatology, Azithromycin, medicine.disease_cause, Interrupted Time Series Analysis, Infectious Diseases, medicine, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Medical diagnosis, business, Reproductive health, Demography, medicine.drug |
| الوصف: | ObjectivesTo determine if media coverage of an outbreak of high-level azithromycin-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae (HL-AziR) impacted online search interest or was temporally associated with health-seeking behaviours in several English cities.MethodsA descriptive analysis of outbreak-related online media articles and relative search interest (RSI) using Google and an interrupted time series analysis using routine surveillance data from sexual health clinics (SHCs) in England (GUMCAD STI surveillance system). The main outcomes were adjusted incidence rate ratios (IRRs) of weekly attendances, gonorrhoea tests and diagnoses of gonorrhoea or ‘any STI’ in selected cities after media coverage of the outbreak in 2015 and 2016.ResultsRSI for outbreak-related terms peaked during media coverage in September 2015 with smaller peaks coinciding with subsequent coverage. The greatest increase in RSI was in Leeds, which coincided with a 63% rise (n=1932; IRR 1.26, 95% CI 1.12 to 1.43) in SHC attendances by women. There was only a 7% (n=1358; IRR 1.01, 95% CI 0.91 to 1.11) increase in attendances by men. Modest increases in outcomes occurred in four other cities with a high RSI. There was no evidence of increases in outcomes in cities, other than Leeds, after subsequent media coverage of the outbreak.ConclusionsNational and local media coverage of the HL-AziR outbreak coincided with peak RSI for related terms, and a transient increase in attendances, gonorrhoea tests and diagnoses of gonorrhoea or ‘any STI’ in some cities with a high RSI. Our analysis demonstrates the potential for media coverage to influence health-seeking behaviours during high-profile STI outbreaks. |
| تدمد: | 1472-3263 1368-4973 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::6b723bb1927d2953fc8990c79e62d603Test https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2019-053986Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........6b723bb1927d2953fc8990c79e62d603 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14723263 13684973 |
|---|