Omid V. Ebrahimi

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Research interests

  • Impact of critical incidents on mental health

  • Precision psychiatry

  • Individual differences and modeling of population heterogeneity

  • Integration of idiographic and nomothetic perspectives of psychopathology

  • Complex systems and network models

  • Longitudinal and intensive longitudinal models of mental health and preventive health behaviors during periods of infectious disease (e.g. COVID-19 pandemic)

Academic awards and recognitions

  • International Council of Psychologist's Early Career Research Encouragement Award (2022)

  • Department of Psychology at University of Oslo's Research Dissemination Award (2020)

  • Gordon Johnsen's Memorial Lecture Recognition (2021)

  • Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies' Mentorship Award (2022)

  • Section Editor for Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders and Phobia's at The Great Norwegian Encyclopedia (2021 - To date)

Projects

1) Adapting a complex systems approach in investigating resilience against and transitions into common mental health disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic
Graduate student at the Norwegian Double Ph.D. Program at the University of Oslo and Modum Bad Psychiatric Hospital and Research Center. The project investigates mental health disorders conceptualized as complex dynamical systems, using dynamic network models and non-linear trajectory models to map out the processes involved in the formation and maintenance of depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic.

PhD advisors: Sverre Urnes Johnson, Asle Hoffart, Ole Andre Solbakken and Daniel J. Bauer.

2) Psychological Adaptiveness to Critical Events (PACE)
The Psychological Adaptiveness to Critical Events (PACE) study is a nationally representative, longitudinal investigation of mental health in the general adult population in Norway. By monitoring more than 16,000 participants over a 15-year time period, encompassing impactful events in their daily lives in addition to incidents of national and international significance (e.g., pandemics, economic recession, and natural disasters), the PACE study aims to elucidate the complex interplay between these critical events and individual susceptibilities in increasing the risk of developing common mental health disorders.

3) Mental health and its association with viral mitigation protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic (MAP-19)
The MAP-19 project aims to improve the understanding of the processes connected with the mental health adversities accompanied by periods of infectious disease. The project further focuses on epidemiological modeling of preventive health behaviors during pandemics, including adherence to social distancing protocols and hesitation toward vaccination.

Background

  • University of Oxford: Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Precision Psychiatry Lab, Department of Psychiatry under Andrea Cipriani (2023).

  • University of Amsterdam: Visiting researcher at The PsychoSystems Project and Psychonetrics lab under Sacha Epskamp and Denny Borsboom (2022).

  • University of California, Berkeley: The Berkeley Clinical Science Program (2019).

  • Cand.psychol. (Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Scientist), Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen (Class of Spring 2019).

  • Visiting scholar at Center for Anxiety & Related Disorders working in team led by Dr. Todd J. Farchione and Dr. David H. Barlow (2018).

  • The University of Hong Kong (HKU), 2016.

  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2011).

Teaching

International collaborators

Other associations

  • Modum Bad Psychiatric Hospital and Research Center.

  • Clinical Psychologist specializing in adult psychopathology at the Trauma Polyclinic Modum Bad, Oslo.

Tags: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatric Epidemiology, Methodology, Psychopathology, Complex Systems, Psychometrics

Publications

  • Ebrahimi, Omid V.; Borsboom, Denny; Hoekstra, Ria H. A.; Epskamp, Sacha; Ostinelli, Edoardo G. & Bastiaansen, Jojanneke A. [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2024). Towards precision in the diagnostic profiling of patients: Leveraging symptom dynamics as a clinical characterisation dimension in the assessment of major depressive disorder. British Journal of Psychiatry. ISSN 0007-1250. 224(5), p. 157–163. doi: 10.1192/bjp.2024.19.
  • Sinkerud Johnson, Miriam; Skjerdingstad, Nora Paulsen; Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili; Hoffart, Asle & Johnson, Sverre Urnes (2024). Fear of giving birth alone: Experiences of psychological distress, symptoms of anxiety and depression, and coping- strategies of childbearing women during COVID-19. Midwifery. ISSN 0266-6138. 131. doi: 10.1016/j.midw.2024.103951.
  • Bjørndal, Ludvig Daae; Ebrahimi, Omid V.; Røysamb, Espen; Karstoft, Karen-Inge; Czajkowski, Nikolai Olavi & Nes, Ragnhild Bang (2024). Stressful life events exhibit complex patterns of associations with depressive symptoms in two population-based samples using network analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders. ISSN 0165-0327. 349, p. 569–576. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2024.01.054.
  • Freichel, René; Skjerdingstad, Nora Paulsen; Mansueto, Alessandra C.; Epskamp, Sacha; Hoffart, Asle & Johnson, Sverre Urnes [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2023). Use of Substances to Cope Predicts Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Persistence: Investigating Patterns of Interactions Between Symptoms and Its Maintaining Mechanisms. Psychological Trauma. ISSN 1942-9681. p. 1–10. doi: 10.1037/tra0001624.
  • Sinkerud Johnson, Miriam; Skjerdingstad, Nora Paulsen; Hoffart, Asle; Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili & Johnson, Sverre Urnes (2023). Triggered by worry: A dynamic network analysis of COVID-19 pandemic-related anxiety and parental stress. Journal of Affective Disorders. ISSN 0165-0327. 346, p. 329–337. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2023.10.127. Full text in Research Archive
  • Shen, Qing; Joyce, Emily E.; Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili; Didriksen, Maria; Lovik, Anikó & Sævarsdóttir, Karen Sól [Show all 32 contributors for this article] (2023). COVID-19 illness severity and 2-year prevalence of physical symptoms: an observational study in Iceland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe. ISSN 2666-7762. 35. doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2023.100756. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hoffart, Asle; Skjerdingstad, Nora Paulsen; Freichel, René; Mansueto, Alessandra C.; Johnson, Sverre Urnes & Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili (2023). Depressive Symptoms and Their Mechanisms: An Investigation of Long-Term Patterns of Interaction Through a Panel-Network Approach. Clinical Psychological Science. ISSN 2167-7026. doi: 10.1177/21677026231208172.
  • Cheng, Cecilia & Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili (2023). Gamification: a Novel Approach to Mental Health Promotion. Current Psychiatry Reports. ISSN 1523-3812. doi: 10.1007/s11920-023-01453-5.
  • Günak, Mia Maria; Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili; Pietrzak, Robert H. & Fried, Eiko I. (2023). Using network models to explore the associations between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and subjective cognitive functioning. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. ISSN 0887-6185. 99. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2023.102768.
  • Lovik, Anikó; González-Hijón, Juan; Hoffart, Asle; Fawns-Ritchie, Chloe; Magnúsdóttir, Ingibjörg & Lu, Li [Show all 27 contributors for this article] (2023). Elevated symptoms of depression and anxiety among family members and friends of critically ill COVID-19 patients – an observational study of five cohorts across four countries. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe. ISSN 2666-7762. 33. doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2023.100733. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bandara, Shashika; Zeinali, Zahra; Blandina, Dian Maria; Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili; Essar, Mohammad Yasir & Senga, Joyeuse [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2023). Imagining a future in global health without visa and passport inequities. PLOS Global Public Health. ISSN 2767-3375. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002310.
  • Tang, Ming Chun; Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili & Cheng, Cecilia (2023). Symptomatology, risk, and protective factors of gaming disorder: A network analytical approach. Computers in Human Behavior. ISSN 0747-5632. 148. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2023.107899.
  • Vrabel, KariAnne; Johnson, Sverre Urnes; Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili & Hoffart, Asle (2023). Anxiety and depressive symptoms among migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway: A two-wave longitudinal study. Psychiatry Research Communications. ISSN 2772-5987. 3(2), p. 1–9. doi: 10.1016/j.psycom.2023.100115. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bjørndal, Ludvig Daae; Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili; Lan, Xiaoyu; Nes, Ragnhild Bang & Røysamb, Espen (2023). Mental Health and Environmental Factors in Adults: A Population-Based Network Analysis. American Psychologist. ISSN 0003-066X. doi: 10.1037/amp0001208.
  • Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili (2023). Systems-based thinking in psychology and the mental health sciences. Nature Reviews Psychology. doi: 10.1038/s44159-023-00193-w.
  • Cheng, Cecilia; Ying, Weijun; Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili & Wong, Kin Fai Ellick (2023). Coping style and mental health amid the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a culture-moderated meta-analysis of 44 nations. Health Psychology Review. ISSN 1743-7199. doi: 10.1080/17437199.2023.2175015.
  • Cheng, Cecilia & Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili (2022). A meta-analytic review of gamified interventions in mental health enhancement. Computers in Human Behavior. ISSN 0747-5632. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2022.107621.
  • Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili (2022). Visa bureaucracy makes scientific conferences inaccessible for too many researchers. Science. ISSN 0036-8075. doi: 10.1126/science.caredit.adf9304.
  • Hoffart, Asle; Burger, Julian; Johnson, Sverre Urnes & Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili (2022). Daily dynamics and mechanisms of anxious symptomatology in the general population: A network study during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. ISSN 0887-6185. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2022.102658.
  • Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili; Hoffart, Asle; Bauer, Daniel J. & Johnson, Sverre Urnes (2022). A Critical Period for Pandemic Adaptation: The Evolution of Depressive Symptomatology in a Representative Sample of Adults Across a 17-Month Period During COVID-19. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. ISSN 2769-7541. doi: 10.1037/abn0000786.
  • Nordbø, Sara Ebling; Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili; Johnson, Sverre Urnes; Skjerdingstad, Nora & Hoffart, Asle (2022). Psychological well-being in times of COVID-19: Associated factors and levels in the general population. Frontiers in Public Health. ISSN 2296-2565. 10:86086, p. 1–12. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.860863. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hoffart, Asle; Bauer, Daniel J.; Johnson, Sverre Urnes & Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili (2022). Anxiety in the adult population from the onset to termination of social distancing protocols during the COVID-19: a 20-month longitudinal study. Scientific Reports. ISSN 2045-2322. 12(1), p. 1–13. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-22686-z.
  • Johnson, Sverre Urnes; Amundsen, Ole Myklebust; S. Johnson, Miriam; Hoffart, Asle; Halsøy, Øyvind & Skjerdingstad, Nora [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2022). Psychiatric symptoms in COVID-19-positive individuals in the general population: Trajectories of depression, anxiety, and insomnia. Psychiatry Research. ISSN 0165-1781. 317. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114806. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili (2022). Why scientific conferences must mitigate structural barriers. Nature Human Behaviour. ISSN 2397-3374. 6(8), p. 1032–1033. doi: 10.1038/s41562-022-01417-4.
  • Karnbach, Katharina; Witkowski, Michal; Ebrahimi, Omid V. & Burger, Julian (2022). Back to life, back to reality: A multi-level dynamic network analysis of student mental health upon return to campus during the COVID-19 pandemic. Current Psychology. ISSN 1046-1310. doi: 10.1007/s12144-022-03196-7.
  • Nordahl, Henrik; Ebrahimi, Omid V.; Hoffart, Asle & Johnson, Sverre Urnes (2022). Trait Versus State Predictors of Emotional Distress Symptoms: The Role of the Big-5 Personality Traits, Metacognitive Beliefs, and Strategies. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. ISSN 0022-3018. 210(12), p. 943–950. doi: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000001557.
  • Hoffart, Asle; Johnson, Sverre Urnes & Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili (2022). Metacognitive beliefs, maladaptive coping strategies, and depressive symptoms: A two-wave network study of the COVID-19 lockdown and reopening. Journal of Psychiatric Research. ISSN 0022-3956. 152, p. 70–78. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.06.008.
  • Magnúsdóttir, Ingibjörg; Lovik, Anikó; Unnarsdóttir, Anna Bára; McCartney, Daniel L.; Ask, Helga & Kõiv, Kadri [Show all 23 contributors for this article] (2022). Acute COVID-19 severity and mental health morbidity trajectories in patient populations of six nations: an observational study. The Lancet Public Health. ISSN 2468-2667. 7(5), p. 406–416. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00042-1. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili; Hoffart, Asle & Johnson, Sverre Urnes (2022). Mechanisms associated with the trajectory of depressive and anxiety symptoms: A linear mixed-effects model during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Current Psychology. ISSN 1046-1310. doi: 10.1007/s12144-022-02732-9. Full text in Research Archive
  • Cheng, Cecilia; Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili & Luk, Jeremy W. (2022). Heterogeneity of Prevalence of Social Media Addiction Across Multiple Classification Schemes: Latent Profile Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research. ISSN 1438-8871. 24(1). doi: 10.2196/27000. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sinkerud Johnson, Miriam; Skjerdingstad, Nora; Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili; Hoffart, Asle & Johnson, Sverre Urnes (2021). Parenting in a Pandemic: Parental Stress, Anxiety and Depression Among Parents During the Government-Initiated Physical Distancing Measures Following the First Wave of COVID-19. Stress and Health. ISSN 1532-3005. p. 1–16. doi: 10.1002/smi.3120.
  • Skjerdingstad, Nora; Sinkerud Johnson, Miriam; Johnson, Sverre Urnes; Hoffart, Asle & Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili (2021). Parental burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic. Family Process. ISSN 0014-7370. p. 1–15. doi: 10.1111/famp.12740. Full text in Research Archive
  • Amundsen, Ole Myklebust; Hoffart, Asle; Johnson, Sverre Urnes & Ebrahimi, Omid V. (2021). Pandemic Information Dissemination and Its Associations With the Symptoms of Mental Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-sectional Study. JMIR Formative Research. ISSN 2561-326X. 5(12). doi: 10.2196/28239. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili; Burger, Julian; Hoffart, Asle & Johnson, Sverre Urnes (2021). Within- and across-day patterns of interplay between depressive symptoms and related psychopathological processes: a dynamic network approach during the COVID-19 pandemic. BMC Medicine. ISSN 1741-7015. 19(1), p. 1–17. doi: 10.1186/s12916-021-02179-y. Full text in Research Archive
  • Halsøy, Øyvind; Johnson, Sverre Urnes; Hoffart, Asle & Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili (2021). Insomnia Symptoms in the General Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Frontiers in Psychiatry. ISSN 1664-0640. 12. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.762799. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili; Hoffart, Asle & Johnson, Sverre Urnes (2021). Viral mitigation and the COVID-19 pandemic: factors associated with adherence to social distancing protocols and hygienic behaviour. Psychology and Health. ISSN 0887-0446. doi: 10.1080/08870446.2021.1960987. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hoffart, Asle; Johnson, Sverre Urnes & Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili (2021). Loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic: change and predictors of change from strict to discontinued social distancing protocols. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping. ISSN 1061-5806. doi: 10.1080/10615806.2021.1958790.
  • Skjerdingstad, Nora; Sinkerud Johnson, Miriam; Johnson, Sverre Urnes; Hoffart, Asle & Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili (2021). Feelings of Worthlessness Links Depressive Symptoms and Parental Stress: A Network Analysis during the COVID-19 Pandemic. European psychiatry. ISSN 0924-9338. 64(1), p. 1–10. doi: 10.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.2223. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hoffart, Asle; Johnson, Sverre Urnes & Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili (2021). The network of stress-related states and depression and anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 lockdown. Journal of Affective Disorders. ISSN 0165-0327. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2021.07.019.
  • Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili; Sinkerud Johnson, Miriam; Ebling, Sara ; Amundsen, Ole Myklebust; Halsøy, Øyvind & Hoffart, Asle [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2021). Risk, Trust, and Flawed Assumptions: Vaccine Hesitancy During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Frontiers in Public Health. ISSN 2296-2565. 9. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.700213. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sinkerud Johnson, Miriam; Skjerdingstad, Nora; Ebrahimi, Omid V.; Hoffart, Asle & Johnson, Sverre Urnes (2021). Mechanisms of parental distress during and after the first COVID-19 lockdown phase: A two-wave longitudinal study. PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. 16(6), p. 1–17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0253087. Full text in Research Archive
  • Solbakken, Ole Andre; Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili; Hoffart, Asle; Monsen, Jon Trygve & Johnson, Sverre Urnes (2021). Emotion regulation difficulties and interpersonal problems during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Predicting anxiety and depression. Psychological Medicine. ISSN 0033-2917. doi: 10.1017/S0033291721001987.
  • Cheng, Cecilia; Wang, Hsin-yi & Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili (2021). Adjustment to a “New Normal:” Coping Flexibility and Mental Health Issues During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Frontiers in Psychiatry. ISSN 1664-0640. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.626197. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ebrahimi, Omid Vakili; Hoffart, Asle & Johnson, Sverre Urnes (2021). Physical Distancing and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Factors Associated With Psychological Symptoms and Adherence to Pandemic Mitigation Strategies. Clinical Psychological Science. ISSN 2167-7026. 9(3), p. 489–506. doi: 10.1177/2167702621994545. Full text in Research Archive
  • Cheng, Cecilia; Ebrahimi, Omid V. & Lau, Yan-ching (2020). Maladaptive coping with the infodemic and sleep disturbance in the COVID‐19 pandemic. Journal of Sleep Research. ISSN 0962-1105. doi: 10.1111/jsr.13235.
  • Hoffart, Asle; Johnson, Sverre Urnes & Ebrahimi, Omid V. (2020). Loneliness and social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic: Risk factors and associations with psychopathology. Frontiers in Psychiatry. ISSN 1664-0640. 11:589127, p. 1–9. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.589127. Full text in Research Archive
  • Johnson, Sverre Urnes; Ebrahimi, Omid V. & Hoffart, Asle (2020). PTSD symptoms among health workers and public service providers during the COVID-19 outbreak. PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0241032. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ebrahimi, Omid V.; Pallesen, Ståle; Kenter, Robin Maria Francisca & Nordgreen, Tine (2019). Psychological interventions for the Fear of Public Speaking: A Meta-analysis. . Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 10:488, p. 1–27. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00488. Full text in Research Archive

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