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Online Public Attention Toward Premature Ejaculation in Mainland China: Infodemiology Study Using the Baidu Index

BACKGROUND: Premature ejaculation (PE) is one of the most described psychosocial stress and sexual complaints worldwide. Previous investigations have focused predominantly on the prospective identification of cases that meet researchers’ specific criteria. The genuine demand from patients with regar...

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Autores principales: Wei, Shanzun, Ma, Ming, Wen, Xi, Wu, Changjing, Zhu, Guonian, Zhou, Xiangfu
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: JMIR Publications 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8430863/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34435970
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/30271
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author Wei, Shanzun
Ma, Ming
Wen, Xi
Wu, Changjing
Zhu, Guonian
Zhou, Xiangfu
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Ma, Ming
Wen, Xi
Wu, Changjing
Zhu, Guonian
Zhou, Xiangfu
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description BACKGROUND: Premature ejaculation (PE) is one of the most described psychosocial stress and sexual complaints worldwide. Previous investigations have focused predominantly on the prospective identification of cases that meet researchers’ specific criteria. The genuine demand from patients with regard to information on PE and related issues may thus be neglected. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to examine the online search trend and user demand related to PE on a national and regional scale using the dominant major search engine in mainland China. METHODS: The Baidu Index was queried using the PE-related terms for the period of January 2011 to December 2020. The search volume for each term was recorded to analyze the search trend and demographic distributions. For user interest, the demand and trend data were collected and analyzed. RESULTS: Of the 36 available PE search keywords, 4 PE searching topics were identified. The Baidu Search Index for each PE topic varied from 46.30% (86,840,487/187,558,154) to 6.40% (12,009,307/187,558,154). The annual percent change (APC) for the complaint topic was 48.80% (P<.001) for 2011 to 2014 and –16.82% (P<.001) for 2014 to 2020. The APC for the inquiry topic was 16.21% (P=.41) for 2011 to 2014 and –11.00% (P<.001) for 2014 to 2020. For the prognosis topic, the annual APC was 11.18% (P<.001) for 2011 to 2017 and –19.86% (P<.001) for 2017 to 2020. For the treatment topic, the annual APC was 14.04% (P<.001) for 2011 to 2016 and –38.83% (P<.001) for 2016 to 2020. The age distribution of those searching for topics related to PE showed that the population aged 20 to 40 years comprised nearly 70% of the total search inquiries (second was 17.95% in the age group younger than 19 years). People from East China made over 50% of the total search queries. CONCLUSIONS: The fluctuating online popularity of PE searches reflects the real-time population demands. It may help medical professionals better understand population interest, population concerns, regional variations, and gender differences on a nationwide scale and make disease-specific health care policies. The internet search data could be more reliable when the insufficient and lagging registry data are completed.
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spelling pubmed-84308632021-09-27 Online Public Attention Toward Premature Ejaculation in Mainland China: Infodemiology Study Using the Baidu Index Wei, Shanzun Ma, Ming Wen, Xi Wu, Changjing Zhu, Guonian Zhou, Xiangfu J Med Internet Res Original Paper BACKGROUND: Premature ejaculation (PE) is one of the most described psychosocial stress and sexual complaints worldwide. Previous investigations have focused predominantly on the prospective identification of cases that meet researchers’ specific criteria. The genuine demand from patients with regard to information on PE and related issues may thus be neglected. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to examine the online search trend and user demand related to PE on a national and regional scale using the dominant major search engine in mainland China. METHODS: The Baidu Index was queried using the PE-related terms for the period of January 2011 to December 2020. The search volume for each term was recorded to analyze the search trend and demographic distributions. For user interest, the demand and trend data were collected and analyzed. RESULTS: Of the 36 available PE search keywords, 4 PE searching topics were identified. The Baidu Search Index for each PE topic varied from 46.30% (86,840,487/187,558,154) to 6.40% (12,009,307/187,558,154). The annual percent change (APC) for the complaint topic was 48.80% (P<.001) for 2011 to 2014 and –16.82% (P<.001) for 2014 to 2020. The APC for the inquiry topic was 16.21% (P=.41) for 2011 to 2014 and –11.00% (P<.001) for 2014 to 2020. For the prognosis topic, the annual APC was 11.18% (P<.001) for 2011 to 2017 and –19.86% (P<.001) for 2017 to 2020. For the treatment topic, the annual APC was 14.04% (P<.001) for 2011 to 2016 and –38.83% (P<.001) for 2016 to 2020. The age distribution of those searching for topics related to PE showed that the population aged 20 to 40 years comprised nearly 70% of the total search inquiries (second was 17.95% in the age group younger than 19 years). People from East China made over 50% of the total search queries. CONCLUSIONS: The fluctuating online popularity of PE searches reflects the real-time population demands. It may help medical professionals better understand population interest, population concerns, regional variations, and gender differences on a nationwide scale and make disease-specific health care policies. The internet search data could be more reliable when the insufficient and lagging registry data are completed. JMIR Publications 2021-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8430863/ /pubmed/34435970 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/30271 Text en ©Shanzun Wei, Ming Ma, Xi Wen, Changjing Wu, Guonian Zhu, Xiangfu Zhou. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (https://www.jmir.org), 26.08.2021. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://www.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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Wei, Shanzun
Ma, Ming
Wen, Xi
Wu, Changjing
Zhu, Guonian
Zhou, Xiangfu
Online Public Attention Toward Premature Ejaculation in Mainland China: Infodemiology Study Using the Baidu Index
title Online Public Attention Toward Premature Ejaculation in Mainland China: Infodemiology Study Using the Baidu Index
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title_fullStr Online Public Attention Toward Premature Ejaculation in Mainland China: Infodemiology Study Using the Baidu Index
title_full_unstemmed Online Public Attention Toward Premature Ejaculation in Mainland China: Infodemiology Study Using the Baidu Index
title_short Online Public Attention Toward Premature Ejaculation in Mainland China: Infodemiology Study Using the Baidu Index
title_sort online public attention toward premature ejaculation in mainland china: infodemiology study using the baidu index
topic Original Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8430863/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34435970
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/30271
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