Health and resilience following COVID-19

In this project researchers from the OPRG and graduate students have conducted a series of studies on psychosocial health, resilience and stress following the COVID-19 pandemic. This project is associated with the “#BryDeg 2020” and “#Pandrisk” projects and the studies were completed in collaboration with researchers from the Center for Crisis Psychology and Medical Faculty. 

Selected publications:  

• Hagen, K., Solem, S., Stavrum, A. K., Eid, J., Kvale, G., Samdal, O., & Le Hellard, S. (2023). Changes in mental health symptoms from April (COVID-19 outbreak) to December 2020 in Norway: A two-wave study. Cogent Psychology, 10(1), 2173998.  
• Eid, J., Bøhn, E. K., Guderud, M., Rath, T. M., & Sætrevik, B. (2022). A qualitative study of the psychological effects of quarantine as an infection control measure. psyarxiv.com 
• Grøtte, T., Hagen, K., Eid, J., Kvale, G., le Hellard, S., & Solem, S. (2022). Changes in contamination-related obsessions and compulsions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A Norwegian longitudinal study. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 35, 100758. 
• Lassen, E. R., Hagen, K., Kvale, G., Eid, J., Le Hellard, S., & Solem, S. (2022). Personality traits and hardiness as risk-and protective factors for mental distress during the COVID-19 pandemic: a Norwegian two-wave study. BMC psychiatry, 22(1), 1-10. 
• Diaz, E., Mamelund, S. E., Eid, J., Aasen, H. S., Martin Kaarbøe, O., Brokstad, R. J. C., ... & Kumar, B. N. (2021). Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic among migrants: An innovative, system-level, interdisciplinary approach is needed to improve public health. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 14034948211019795.  
• Unnarsdóttir, A. B., Lovik, A., Fawns-Ritchie, C., Ask, H., Kõiv, K., Hagen, K., ... & Valdimarsdóttir, U. A. (2021). Cohort Profile: COVIDMENT: COVID-19 cohorts on mental health across six nations. International Journal of Epidemiology. 
• Hagen, K., Solem, S., Stavrum, A. K., Eid, J., Kvale, G., Samdal, O., & Hellard, S. L. (2021). Mental health symptoms during the first months of the COVID-19 outbreak in Norway: A cross-sectional survey study. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 14034948211059525.