Public Interest in Neurological Diseases on Wikipedia during Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic

Infodemiology is a research discipline that investigates parameters of information distribution in order to support public health and public policy. Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia, is commonly used as a source of information for infodemiological studies. Using Pageviews analysis, we descripti...

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Autores principales: Rutovic, Stela, Fumagalli, Ana Isabel, Lutsenko, Inna, Corea, Francesco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7931017/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33578628
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/neurolint13010006
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Fumagalli, Ana Isabel
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description Infodemiology is a research discipline that investigates parameters of information distribution in order to support public health and public policy. Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia, is commonly used as a source of information for infodemiological studies. Using Pageviews analysis, we descriptively assessed the total monthly number of views of the Wikipedia articles in English describing main neurological diseases in the period from January 2018 to July 2020. Our results show a general trend of a decrease in interest in neurological disease-related pages throughout years and especially during the burst of interest towards coronavirus. The monitoring of infodemiological indicators shall be prioritized to reshape global campaigns and tailored advocacy programs.
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spelling pubmed-79310172021-03-05 Public Interest in Neurological Diseases on Wikipedia during Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic Rutovic, Stela Fumagalli, Ana Isabel Lutsenko, Inna Corea, Francesco Neurol Int Communication Infodemiology is a research discipline that investigates parameters of information distribution in order to support public health and public policy. Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia, is commonly used as a source of information for infodemiological studies. Using Pageviews analysis, we descriptively assessed the total monthly number of views of the Wikipedia articles in English describing main neurological diseases in the period from January 2018 to July 2020. Our results show a general trend of a decrease in interest in neurological disease-related pages throughout years and especially during the burst of interest towards coronavirus. The monitoring of infodemiological indicators shall be prioritized to reshape global campaigns and tailored advocacy programs. MDPI 2021-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7931017/ /pubmed/33578628 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/neurolint13010006 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7931017/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33578628
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/neurolint13010006
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