Posts by Emily H. Feig, PhD
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Systematic Review: Positive Psychological Interventions for Improving Health Behaviors
Emily H. Feig, PhD, Bettina Hoeppner, PhD, MS, and colleagues recently conducted the first systematic review of literature on positive psychological interventions that assessed health behavior outcomes.
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Consider Emotional Barriers When Encouraging Physical Activity After Metabolic/Bariatric Surgery
Researchers in the Department of Psychiatry have identified unique emotional concerns about exercise among patients who have undergone metabolic/bariatric surgery, which may prevent them from adopting the high level of physical activity that's recommended to maintain weight loss and prevent cardiovascular disease.
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Early Increase in Physical Activity Predicts Longer-term Improvement by Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
Emily H. Feig, PhD, and Jeff C. Huffman, MD, of the Department of Psychiatry, and colleagues suggest that when patients with type 2 diabetes and low self-reported physical activity take part in a behavioral intervention, their early progress is a good predictor of their longer-term improvement in activity.
Biography
Emily H. Feig, PhD, is a psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and an instructor in psychology at Harvard Medical School.
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