Atina Husnayain|Anis Fuad|Lutfan Lazuardi
Correlation between Google Trends on dengue fever and national surveillance report in Indonesia
Universitas Gadjah Mada|Universitas Gadjah Mada|Universitas Gadjah Mada
background digital traces rapidly used health monitoring purposes recent years approach growing consequence increased use mobile phone internet machine learning many studies reported use google trends data potential data source assist traditional surveillance systems rise internet penetration 547 huge utilization google 98 indicate potential use google trends indonesia study performed measure correlation country wide official dengue reports google trends data indonesia objective study aims measure correlation google trends data dengue fever indonesian national surveillance report methods research quantitative study using time series data 20122016 two sets data analyzed using moving average analysis microsoft excel pearson time lag correlations also used measure correlation data results moving average analysis showed google trends data linear time series pattern official dengue report pearson correlation indicated high correlation three defined search terms rvalue range 0921 0937 p 005 overall period showed increasing trend epidemic periods 20152016 time lag correlation also indicated google trends data potentially used early warning system novel tool monitor public reaction increase dengue cases outbreak conclusions google trends data linear time series pattern statistically correlated annual official dengue reports identification informationseeking behavior needed support use google trends disease surveillance indonesia