Eva Oberle

Faculty of Medicine

Research Classification

Public and population health

Other education

Research Interests

Adolescent Mental Health/ Social-Emotional Wellbeing

Positive youth development

Promoting mental health and wellbeing through schools

Risk and resilience

Research with population-level data

Social and emotional learning in schools

Relevant Thesis-Based Degree Programs

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Affiliations to Research Centres, Institutes & Clusters

Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP)

Research Options

I am available and interested in collaborations (e.g. clusters, grants).

I am interested in and conduct interdisciplinary research.

Research Methodology

Recruitment

Looking to recruit:

Master's students, Doctoral students

Potential research project areas:

Quantitative research using data from the Middle Years Development Instrument and other HELP-surveys. Topics all focus on the development of children and youth and include trajectories of wellbeing over time, associatios between social-emotional competence and academic success, differences in social-emotional and mental wellbeing among population subgroups. Examining aspects of intersectionality (gender, racial and ethnic background).

Ideal applicant profile:

Students with very strong interest and skills in quantitative analyses, and training/knowledge base in the social sciences and/or population health (e.g., psychology, education, human development, sociology, population health).

Other options:

I support public scholarship, e.g. through the Public Scholars Initiative, and am available to supervise students and Postdocs interested in collaborating with external partners as part of their research., I support experiential learning experiences, such as internships and work placements, for my graduate students and Postdocs., I am interested in supervising students to conduct interdisciplinary research.

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Graduate Student Supervision

Doctoral Student Supervision

Dissertations completed in 2010 or later are listed below. Please note that there is a 6-12 month delay to add the latest dissertations.

Incidence of non-affective psychotic disorders and access to psychiatric care among adolescents in South-Western British Columbia (2022)

Objectives: Estimate (1) diagnosed incidence of non-affective psychotic disorders (NAP) over adolescence (2) the distribution of risk in the population (3) the level of psychiatric service use and (4) predictors of psychiatric service use following a first diagnosis of NAP among adolescents in British Columbia (BC). Study 1: I used linked administrative data (e.g. hospitalization, physician visit, and immigration records) to estimate the incidence of NAP over adolescence and variation in risk by age, sex, family and neighbourhood income, migration background, parent mental health, and birth year. Study 2. I used the same data to estimate relative risk of adolescent-onset NAP by migrant generation and region of origin adjusting for class of entry into Canada, birth year, low family income and neighbourhood income. Study 3. I examined psychiatric service use (time to psychiatry follow up visit, antipsychotic prescription, hospitalization, rate of psychiatry visits and odds of service gap) following a first diagnosis of NAP among adolescents in BC, and clinical and demographic (migration background, family and neighbourhood income, sex, age) predictors of psychiatric service use. Findings: 0.64% of females and 0.88% of males were diagnosed with a NAP between age 13-19. Incidence increased over the age range, especially among males. Low family income, lower neighbourhood income, parent mental health contact history, and later birth year were associated with higher risk of diagnosis, whereas immigrant adolescents had lower risk of diagnosis compared to non-immigrant adolescents. In study 2 I found that first-generation migrants from East, South and Southeast Asia and second-generation migrants from East and South Asia exhibited lower risk of diagnosed NAP over adolescence compared to non-migrants. In study 3 I found that half of outpatient cases and one third of inpatient cases did not access psychiatry follow up within 30 days of index, and a majority experienced gaps of more than 90 days between psychiatry visits. Moreover, I identified clinical and demographic predictors of psychiatric service use.

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Master's Student Supervision

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Eva Oberle

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Postdoctoral Fellows

Graduate Student Supervision

Doctoral Student Supervision

Developing and strengthening student-teacher relationships in online learning contexts: helping and hindering factors (2024)

Incidence of non-affective psychotic disorders and access to psychiatric care among adolescents in South-Western British Columbia (2022)

Master's Student Supervision

Screen time, sleep and social relationships: a population-level study examining emotional wellbeing during early adolescence (2020)

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Tonje Molyneux

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