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Amber Sehgal
Researcher at RAND Corporation
Publications - 21
Citations - 1849
Amber Sehgal is an academic researcher from RAND Corporation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Juvenile delinquency & Recreation. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 21 publications receiving 1678 citations.
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Contribution of Public Parks to Physical Activity
Deborah A. Cohen,Thomas L. McKenzie,Amber Sehgal,Stephanie Williamson,Daniela Golinelli,Nicole Lurie +5 more
TL;DR: How residents in low-income, minority communities use public, urban neighborhood parks and how parks contribute to physical activity are studied to find public parks are critical resources for physical activity in minority communities.
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System for Observing Play and Recreation in Communities (SOPARC): Reliability and Feasibility Measures
TL;DR: SOPARC is a reliable and feasible instrument for assessing physical activity and associated contextual data in community settings and met acceptable criteria for area contexts.
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Effects of Park Improvements on Park Use and Physical Activity: Policy and Programming Implications
Deborah A. Cohen,Daniela Golinelli,Stephanie Williamson,Amber Sehgal,Terry Marsh,Thomas L. McKenzie +5 more
TL;DR: Improvements to parks may not automatically result in increased use and physical activity, especially when programming decreases, and multiple factors contribute to park use and need to be accounted for in future community-level interventions.
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New Recreational Facilities for the Young and the Old in Los Angeles: Policy and Programming Implications
Deborah A. Cohen,Amber Sehgal,Stephanie Williamson,Terry Marsh,Daniela Golinelli,Thomas L. McKenzie +5 more
TL;DR: It is found that making improvements to facilities alone will not always guarantee increased use, and use results from a complex equation that includes not only higher quality recreation facilities but also progamming, staffing, fees, hours of operation, marketing, outreach, and perhaps a host of other human factors.
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Evaluating an Experimental Intensive Juvenile Probation Program: Supervision and Official Outcomes
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report results of a randomized experiment used to evaluate Ventura County's 4-year demonstration project called the South Oxnard Challenge Project (SOCP), which followed youths for more than 2 years after random assignment to SOCP or routine probation.