Online Health-Seeking Behaviors and Information Needs Among Patients With Lymphoma in China: Study of Regional and Temporal Trends

Kaida Ning   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Hongfei Gu   ^{2 *} , MSc ;   Meredith Franklin   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Xiaoying Yang   ^{4 *} , BSc ;   Rong Wei   ^{5 *} , MD ;   Zhen Song   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Hong Xu   ¹ , MSc ;   Ling Li Leng   ⁶ , PhD ;   Mengting Liu   ⁷ , PhD ;   Ju Dai   ¹ , PhD ;   Jin Zhang   ² , MSc ;   Rui Zeng   ¹ , PhD ;   Yongshuai Hou   ¹ , PhD ;   Rongjie Wang   ¹ , PhD ;   Zirong Liu   ¹ , MSc ;   Chenyang Huang   ¹ , BSc ;   Runfa Cai   ¹ , BSc ;   Huiling Liu   ⁴ , PhD ;   Li Charlie Xia   ⁴ , PhD

¹ Department of Network Intelligence, Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

² Department of Patient Services, HOUSE086, Beijing, China

³ Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁴ Department of Statistics and Mathematical Finance, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

⁵ Institute of Hematology, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China

⁶ Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

⁷ School of Biomedical Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

*these authors contributed equally