Britt-Marie Lindgren

My name is Britt-Marie, I have a job as professor of nursing. My background in healthcare is as a psychiatric and mental health nurse. I ...

• teaches in several of the department's programs, preferably on psychiatric nursing but also on qualitative methods
• research on, among other things, self-harm, eating disorders, mental ill-health and psychiatric nursing in various contexts.
• am the local coordinator for SWEPROF: Swedish National Graduate School on Practice- and Patient-Oriented Research in Forensic and Compulsory Psychiatric Care. 

My clinical experience as a nurse is mainly from a specialist unit for people with eating disorders but also from substance abuse care. My dissertation was about people with self-harming behavior, their relatives, and carers' experiences of care. I defended my dissertation in November 2011 and have since then continued with mainly qualitative research in, among other things, psychiatric inpatient care. In December 2017, I was appointed as a qualified teacher at Umeå University.

Areas of research:

Compulsory psychiatric care for adults with Anorexia Nervosa; the overall aim is to investigate the content and meaning of compulsory psychiatric care for people over 18 years of age with AN as it is registered, described and observed by patients and healthcare professionals. The project examines how beliefs related to gender and power structures influence psychiatric involuntary care and the view of involuntary measures.

Self-harm among men; I am involved in a Nordic research group in a project including several studies about self-harm among men. I am responsible for the Swedish part.

Nursing in psychiatric inpatient care for people with severe dissociative conditions; the overall aim of this project, consisting of four sub-studies, is to explore nursing in psychiatric inpatient care for people with severe dissociative conditions, with a particular focus on dissociative identity disorder and trauma awareness.

Psychiatric inpatient care for persons with Anorexia Nervosa - person-centered practices, gender, and power; this project explores the content and significance of general psychiatric inpatient care for persons with Anorexia Nervosa, focusing on person-centered practices, gender, and power perspectives. 

POSA - Caring for people with mental ill-health in general emergency departments towards a recovery-oriented and reflective practice; the overall aim of this project is to generate knowledge about how the nursing staff in general emergency departments can support recovery in persons with mental ill-health with a focus on the significance of recovery-oriented and reflective practices.

Time Together - a nursing intervention targeting everyday life in psychiatric inpatient care. Patients' and staff's perspectives; the overall aim is to construct a theoretical understanding of everyday processes in psychiatric inpatient care, and second, based on this, develop, test, implement, and evaluate a nursing intervention aiming at improving everyday life in psychiatric in-patient care.

Organizational and social work environment and health among working municipal employees in rural areas in northern Sweden; the overall aim is to explore and describe experiences of the organizational and social work environment and health and describe municipal employees and municipal managers' experiences of organizational and work environment, stress and exhaustion disorder. Ended.

Improved care and pain management with femoral nerve blockade for patients with hip fracture; to evaluate if femoral nerve blockade in patients with hip fracture may reduce the pre-and perioperative need for systemic analgesics and the number of postoperative complications. Ended.

Self-harm - hovering between hope and despair - experiences and interactions in a health care context; describe experiences of care among people who self-harm, professional caregivers, and close relatives (parents), and explore interpretative repertoires that jointly construct the interaction between people who self-harm and their professional caregivers. Ended.

LARO - Medication-assisted therapy for people with opioid dependence; describe experiences of living with and taking part in medication-assisted treatment among people with opioid dependence. Ended.