背景:美容旅游的普及可能会增加患者不必要的风险,因为术后护理是可变的。然而,人们对这种日益增长的现象的当前趋势和公众看法知之甚少。这项研究比较了相对于美国,受欢迎的医疗旅游目的地对美容旅游的兴趣。
方法:从2017年10月到2023年9月对Google趋势进行了查询,检查了整个时期的趋势,并剖析了2017-2020年和2020-2023年之间的变化。针对排名前五位的整容手术,分别检索了排名前五位的国际国家和美国的搜索量数据,根据ISAPS2022年全球调查。p值<0.05用于统计显著性。
结果:寻找吸脂术,眼睑成形术,隆胸,乳房固定术,和腹部成形术在美国之间进行了比较,墨西哥,土耳其,泰国,和哥伦比亚。Google趋势数据反映了两种最常见程序的流行程度,吸脂术,和隆胸.关于吸脂术的兴趣差异在墨西哥最大,泰国,土耳其与美国相比(p<0.05)。2017年至2023年,眼睑成形术的医疗旅游在土耳其和泰国的搜索兴趣得分最高(p<0.05)。在隆胸的所有时间间隔中,显着差异也是一致的,乳房固定术,和腹部成形术,对墨西哥和土耳其的兴趣较高(p<0.05)。
结论:Google趋势分析是了解化妆品旅游的有见地工具。不断变化的趋势带来了评估全球与国家特定程序利益的潜力。这些观察到的趋势可能预示着未来的国际美学程序趋势。
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BACKGROUND: The popularity of cosmetic tourism may increase unnecessary risks for patients as postoperative care is variable. However, little is known about the current trends and public perception of this growing phenomenon. This study compares interest in cosmetic tourism in popular medical tourism destinations relative to the US.
METHODS: Google Trends was queried from October 2017 to September 2023, examining trends over the full period and dissecting changes between 2017-2020 and 2020-2023. Search volume data were retrieved for the top international countries and the US for each of the top five cosmetic procedures, according to the ISAPS 2022 Global Survey. A p value < 0.05 was used for statistical significance.
RESULTS: Searches for liposuction, blepharoplasty, breast augmentation, mastopexy, and abdominoplasty were compared between the US, Mexico, Turkey, Thailand, and Colombia. Google Trends data mirrored the prevalence of the two most common procedures, liposuction, and breast augmentation. Differences in interest regarding liposuction were greatest in Mexico, Thailand, and Turkey compared to the US (p < 0.05). Medical tourism for blepharoplasty had the highest search interest scores for Turkey and Thailand from 2017 to 2023 (p < 0.05). Significant differences were also consistent across all time intervals for breast augmentation, mastopexy, and abdominoplasty, with higher interest in Mexico and Turkey (p < 0.05).
CONCLUSIONS: Google Trends analysis serves as an insightful tool for understanding cosmetic tourism. Changing trends bring the potential to assess worldwide versus country-specific procedure interest. These observed trends may foreshadow future international aesthetic procedure trends.
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