Helsinki Psychotherapy Study
Helsinki Psychotherapy Study
Co-operating institutions and researchers
The Helsinki Psychotherapy Study (HPS) is carried in at the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL, Division of Welfare and Health Policy, Population Health Unit), in co-operation 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.
The group of senior co-operating researchers in Finland consists of Professor (emerita) Aila Järvikoski and Professor Kristiina Härkäpää (University of Lapland), Professor Anssi Peräkylä (University of Helsinki), Senior Researcher Timo Maljanen (The Social Insurance Institution in Finland), Professor (emeritus) Johannes Lehtonen, and Professor Vilma Hänninen (University of Kuopio).
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.
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Researchers
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[2011, Dec 8th.]
