Administration
Co-operating institutions and researchers
The Helsinki Psychotherapy Study (HPS) is carried out at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL). Co-operation has been carried out with the Social Insurance Institution of Finland, the Biomedicum Helsinki, the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa, the Rehabilitation Foundation and several collaborating researchers from University Departments in Finland and abroad. A total of about 250 persons have had some professional role in the study; 71 of them were psychotherapists responsible for conducting the study treatments.
Current research co-operation mainly comprises of international meta-analyses and sub-projects carried out with researchers from THL and different Universities of Finland.
Ethical issues and surveillance of the study
The study conforms to the Helsinki Declaration of the World Medical Association. At the first visit, written informed consent was obtained from each patient. Additional informed consent was obtained for permission to be included in the qualitative part of the study. The protocol was checked and found to be in accordance with the appropriate regulations and approved by the Helsinki University Central Hospital's ethics council. To guarantee patient safety an independent Data and Safety Monitoring Committee was founded. The study personnel follow the law of Human Participant Protection when monitoring and reporting patient data.
Researchers
Erkki Heinonen, Professor (Project Director)
Paul Knekt, Research Professor emeritus (Past Project Director)
Tommi Härkänen, Adjunct Professor (Research Manager)
Laura Sares-Jäske, MSc (Researcher)
Esa Virtala (Data Manager)
Harri Rissanen (Data Manager)
Visiting researchers and supervisors of theses
Olavi Lindfors, Adjunct Professor (Past Project Director)
Mikael Leiman, Professor emeritus (Supervisor)
In this picture (from left): Timo Maljanen, Maarit Laaksonen, Erkki Heinonen, Tommi Härkänen, Laura Sares-Jäske, Jukka Lehtinen, Paul Knekt, Esa Virtala and Olavi Lindfors
