Petra Suonnansalo

I belong to the Adherence research group, which conducts multidisciplinary and international research on the effects of various interventions on treatment adherence. In my dissertation research, I'm focusing on the lifestyle counselling competence of healthcare professionals. I am also a member of DigiImpact research group, which develops and evaluates new methodologies and assesses the factors that influence the impact of digital health in acute and critical care.

In the Interreg-funded Tech2Heal project (2025-2027), we aim to attain an enhanced comprehension of the reasons behind both absenteeism and early retirement due to poor well-being. In 2022-2023, I worked in the Sote-digiohjaaja project (ESF), the goal of which was to develop and pilot an education model that supports the digital counselling competence of social and healthcare professionals in the Wellbeing Services County of North Ostrobothnia.

My research interests include the themes of lifestyle counselling, digital counselling, the development of healthcare professionals' competence, wellbeing, and health differences, as well as comprehensive (physical, psychological, spiritual, and social) wellbeing of individuals.