Flattening the Mental Health Curve: COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders Are Associated With Alterations in Mental Health Search Behavior in the United States

Nicholas C Jacobson   ^{1, 2, 3, 4} , PhD ;   Damien Lekkas   ^{1, 4} , MS ;   George Price   ^{1, 4} , BS ;   Michael V Heinz   ^{1, 5} , MD ;   Minkeun Song   ¹ ;   A James O’Malley   ^{1, 2, 4, 6} , PhD ;   Paul J Barr   ^{1, 6} , MSc, PhD

¹ Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH, United States

² Department of Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH, United States

³ Department of Psychiatry, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States

⁴ Quantitative Biomedical Sciences Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States

⁵ Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, United States

⁶ The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States