About
Dawit Shawel Abebe is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Health, Department of Nursing and Health Promotion. Dawit has a PhD in Public Health/Epidemiology (2014) from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo. He also received M.Phil in Community Health (2009) from the University of Oslo and Master in Nutrition (2006) from the University of Gent, Belgium. His research focuses on risk factors and developmental trends of mental health problems from adolescence to adulthood, and comorbidities between mental disorders and somatic diseases. He is interested in investigating social gradients in health and health service utilization, including ethnicity and health (immigrant health). His research is based on quantitative research methods.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Community medicine, social medicine
Subject areas
Youth Migration health Immigrant health Eating problems Youth and mental health Public health
Countries
Research groups
Research projects
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Negotiating Early Job Insecurity and Labour Market Exclusion in Europe (NEGOTIATE)
NEGOTIATE is a research project examining the long- and short-term consequences of job insecurity and labour market exclusion of young people.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Ekeberg, Karoline; Abebe, Dawit Shawel
(2020).
Mental disorders among young adults of immigrant background: a nationwide register study in Norway.
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00127-0...
Gebru, Nardos Wondafrash; Hagos, Seifu; Yirgu, Robel; Habtemariam, Esete; Abebe, Dawit Shawel (2020). The relationship between caregivers’ feeding practices and children’s eating behaviours among preschool children in Ethiopia. Appetite .
Hynek, Kamila Angelika; Straiton, Melanie Lindsay; Hauge, Lars Johan; Corbett, Karina; Abebe, Dawit Shawel (2020). Use of outpatient mental healthcare services and upper-secondary school completion in young women with migrant background – A population-based study. SSM - Population Health . Vol. 11.
Tuffa, Tigest; Hagos, Seifu H; Endris, Bilal Shikur; Getnet, Yalemwork; Abebe, Dawit Shawel (2020). Unhealthy weight control behaviors among Ethiopian female adolescents. International Journal of Eating Disorders . Vol. 53.
Toft, Helge Prytz; Lien, Lars; Neupane, Sudan Prasad; Abebe, Dawit Shawel; Tilden, Terje; Wampold, Bruce E.; Bramness, Jørgen Gustav
(2020).
Cytokine concentrations are related to level of mental distress in inpatients not using anti-inflammatory drugs.
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Acta Neuropsychiatrica
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Vol. 32.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/acta-neuro...
Abebe, Dawit Shawel; Hyggen, Christer (2019). Moderators of unemployment and wage scarring during the transition to young adulthood: evidence from Norway. Hvinden, Bjørn; O'Reilly, Jacqueline; Schoyen, Mi Ah; Hyggen, Christer (Ed.). Negotiating Early Job Insecurity Well-being, Scarring and Resilience of European Youth. 6. p. 115-137. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Bakken, Anders; Andersen, Patrick Lie; Frøyland, Lars Roar; Abebe, Dawit Shawel
(2019).
Rekkefølgeeffekter i spørreundersøkelser blant ungdom. Resultater fra et split-ballot-eksperiment.
Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift
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Vol. 3.
https://www.idunn.no/norsk_sosiologisk_tidsskrift/...
Abebe, Dawit Shawel; Helseth, Sølvi; Andenæs, Randi (2019). Socio-Economic Gradients and Disability During The Transition to Young Adulthood: A Longitudinal Survey and Register Study in Norway. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education . Vol. 66.
Abebe, Dawit Shawel; Elstad, Jon Ivar; Lien, Lars
(2018).
Utilization of somatic specialist services among psychiatric immigrant patients: the Norwegian patient registry study.
BMC Health Services Research
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Vol. 18:852.
http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2589061
Toft, Helge Prytz; Bramness, Jørgen Gustav; Lien, Lars; Abebe, Dawit Shawel; Wampold, Bruce E.; Tilden, Terje; Hestad, Knut; Neupane, Sudan Prasad
(2018).
PTSD patients show increasing cytokine levels during treatment despite reduced psychological distress.
Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
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Vol. 14.
https://www.dovepress.com/ptsd-patients-show-incre...
