Google searches for 'mental health' more than double in four years

From 27,800 to 69,200

Adam Saville
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Employers can play crucial role in detecting behavioural changes that might indicate deterioration in employee mental health, says RedArc

The number of monthly online searches undertaken in the UK involving the specific term ‘mental health' has more than doubled in the past four years - from around 27,800 in 2015 to 69,200 in 2019 - analysis of Google's Keyword Planner by RedArc has revealed. The nurse service also found that monthly searches for 893 broader phrases that Google recognises as being related to ‘mental health' has shown an increase of 37% between 2015 and 2019. Of these, the three specific terms with the highest number of monthly searches during this four-year period are ‘anxiety', ‘depression' and ‘bipolar'....

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