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ArticleNutrients2023

Population Interest in Information on Obesity, Nutrition, and Occupational Health and Its Relationship with the Prevalence of Obesity: An Infodemiological Study.

Liliana Melián-Fleitas, Álvaro Franco-Pérez, Javier Sanz-Valero, Carmina Wanden-Berghe

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Article in Nutrients, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Liliana Melián-FleitasNutrition Department, University of Granada, 18012 Granada, Spain.
Álvaro Franco-PérezPlaya Blanca Health Center, Health Services Management of the Health Area of Lanzarote, 35580 Playa Blanca, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-0935-6268
Javier Sanz-ValeroNational School of Occupational Medicine, Carlos III Health Institute, 28029 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-8735-0075
Carmina Wanden-BergheHealth and Biomedical Research Institute of Alicante (ISABIAL), University General Hospital, 03010 Alicante, Spain.
Instituto de Salud Carlos III · ESUniversidad de Granada · ES

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo identify and analyze population interest in obesity, nutrition, and occupational health and safety and its relationship with the worldwide prevalence of obesity through information search trends.

methodIn this ecological study, data were obtained through online access to Google Trends using the topics "obesity", "nutrition", and "occupational health and safety". Obesity data were obtained from the World Health Organization (WHO) website for crude adult prevalence and estimates by region. The variables studied were relative search volume (RSV), temporal evolution, milestone, trend, and seasonality. The temporal evolution of the search trends was examined by regression analysis (R2). To assess the relationship between quantitative variables, the Spearman correlation coefficient (Rho) was used. Seasonality was verified using the augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) test.

resultsThe RSV trends were as follows: obesity (R

conclusionsPopulation interest in obesity continues to be a trend in countries with the highest prevalence, although there are clear signs popularity loss in favor of searches focused on possible solutions and treatments, with a notable increase in searches related to nutrition and diet. Despite the fact that most people spend a large part of their time in the workplace and that interventions including various strategies have been shown to be useful in combating overweight and obesity, there has been a decrease in the population's interest in information related to obesity in the workplace. This information can be used as a guide for public health approaches to obesity and its relationship to nutrition and a healthy diet, approaches that are of equal utility and applicability in occupational health.

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Occupational HealthAdultHumansNutritional StatusObesityOverweightPrevalencebody imagediet, food, and nutritionGoogle Trendshealth informationinfodemiologyinformation searchobesityoccupational health

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PMID37686805
PMCPMC10489826
OpenAlexW4386254899

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