Abstract

Aim: This study aimed to showcase the particular lifestyle and behavioural pattern changes during the pandemic using Google Trends (GT).

Background: The pandemic hit by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) globally has brought basic living into the context of surprise. Since the lockdown and social restrictions, the population has faced many changes in their daily routine.

Objective: The purpose of the study was to demonstrate how COVID-19 has affected eating habits and lifestyle in India.

Methods: A retrospective analysis was carried out with the aid of Google Trend Relative Search Volume (RSV) data obtained for interest areas, such as COVID-19 cases, symptoms, preference of medicines, choice of nutrients, reduced physical activity, and watching varied Over-the-top media service (OTT) platforms as the source of entertainment; these were the variables that were taken into consideration to derive correlation coefficient values.

Results: There was a strong positive correlation found between zinc and vitamin C, zinc and vitamin D, and vitamin C and D, which was 0.83, 0.78, and 0.72, respectively. Symmetrical observation has been observed in Netflix and Amazon Prime as 0.81; a notable negative correlation was found between COVID-19 and gym as -0.32.

Conclusion: This study can be used as a checkpoint list for future predictions and past timelines and how they have a cohabitant role in the spread of the epidemic and its line of mitigation strategies.

Keywords: COVID-19, retrospective, RSV, OTT, sedentary lifestyle, epidemic.