Szilvia Zörgő, Gjalt-Jorn Peters, Anna Jeney, David Williamson Shaffer, Andrew R Ruis, Rik Crutzen
A feasibility study for a unified, multimodal analysis of online information foraging in health-related topics
Open research Europe
although coronavirus disease 2019 covid19 pandemic affected trends multiple health outcomes japan paucity studies investigating effect pandemic adverse birth outcomes fetal mortality study aimed investigate effect onset pandemic trends adverse birth outcomes fetal mortality using national data japan used 20102022 birth fetal mortality data vital statistics japan defined starting time effect pandemic april 2020 period january 2010 march 2020 april 2020 december 2022 defined pre post pandemic period respectively rates preterm birth term low birth weight tlbw smallforgestationalage sga largeforgestationalage lga spontaneous fetal mortality artificial fetal mortality used outcomes interrupted time series analysis conducted using monthly time series data outcomes evaluate effects pandemic addition modified poisson regression model used evaluate effects pandemic outcomes using individuallevel data adjusted risk ratio effect calculated adverse birth fetal mortality outcomes showed decreasing trend years except preterm birth lga birth rates sga birth rates tended reach lowest values onset pandemic interrupted time series analysis revealed pandemic decreased preterm birth tlbw sga birth rates addition regression analysis revealed pandemic decreased tlbw sga artificial fetal mortality rates analyses performed using national data suggested pandemic decreased tlbw sga rates japan