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Kevin G. Volpp
Researcher at University of Pennsylvania
Publications - 370
Citations - 17582
Kevin G. Volpp is an academic researcher from University of Pennsylvania. The author has contributed to research in topics: Randomized controlled trial & Health care. The author has an hindex of 64, co-authored 346 publications receiving 15083 citations. Previous affiliations of Kevin G. Volpp include United States Department of Veterans Affairs & Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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Financial incentive-based approaches for weight loss: a randomized trial.
Kevin G. Volpp,Leslie K. John,Andrea B. Troxel,Laurie Norton,Jennifer E. Fassbender,George Loewenstein +5 more
TL;DR: The use of economic incentives produced significant weight loss during the 16 weeks of intervention that was not fully sustained, and incentive participants weighed significantly less at 7 months than at the study start.
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A randomized, controlled trial of financial incentives for smoking cessation.
Kevin G. Volpp,Andrea B. Troxel,Mark V. Pauly,Henry A. Glick,Andrea Puig,David A. Asch,David A. Asch,Robert Galvin,Robert Galvin,Jingsan Zhu,Fei Wan,Jill DeGuzman,Elizabeth L. Corbett,Janet Weiner,Janet Audrain-McGovern +14 more
TL;DR: In this study of employees of one large company, financial incentives for smoking cessation significantly increased the rates of smoking cessation.
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Wearable Devices as Facilitators, Not Drivers, of Health Behavior Change
TL;DR: Several large technology companies including Apple, Google, and Samsung are entering the expanding market of population health with the introduction of wearable devices, and while these devices are increasing in popularity, little evidence suggests that they are bridging the gap between recording information and changing behavior.
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Accuracy of smartphone applications and wearable devices for tracking physical activity data.
TL;DR: The objective of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of smartphone applications and wearable devices compared with direct observation of step counts, a metric successfully used in interventions to improve clinical outcomes.
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Asymmetric Paternalism to Improve Health Behaviors
TL;DR: This Commentary identifies some key decision biases that ordinarily lead to self-harming behavior and shows how they can be exploited in interventions to instead promote healthy behaviors.