New PhD-student at OPEN
Lea Deichmann Nielsen is affiliated with OPEN as a PhD-student with the project: ” Development of the MR-CRAS (Mechanical Restraint – Confounding-Risk-Alliance-Score) and validation of its measurement properties among forensic psychiatric staff and experts”.
Lea Deichmann Nielsen became a nurse in 2001 and completed her Cand.cur in 2006. Currently, she is taken a leave of absence from her job as a lecturer at University College South Denmark in Esbjerg, where she, since 2006, has worked with people taking professional bachelor's degrees in nursing, midwife, physiotherapist, occupational therapist and bioanalytical professions as well as research and development tasks. Among others, research into the causes of long duration in restrainment among psychiatric patients. At the moment, Lea is employed by the Department of Psychiatrics in Middelfart and was, from 1st December 2014 listed as a PhD-student at OPEN. The PhD-projects is an instrument development study with a goal to gather evidence about the validity of a new MRI-CRAS instrument through the development and testing of its measurement properties. Ultimately, the aim is to implement this risk assessment instrument with the goal to reduce the duration of restrainment among psychiatric patients.