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Conference Papers and Presentations

  1. Constantine, N. A. & Jerman, P. (2006, April). Policy Research and Advocacy: The Adolescent Sexual Health Policy Project. Presented at the Office of Family Planning Teen Pregnancy Prevention Annual Meeting, Burlingame, CA.
  2. Constantine, N. A. (2003, November). Who Are We to Advocate? Opening keynote presented to the California Alliance Concerned with School-Aged Parenting and Pregnancy Prevention annual conference. Sacramento, CA.
  3. Constantine, N. A. (2003, November). Do Virginity Pledges Cause Virginity? Making Sense of Program Effectiveness Claims. Invited workshop presented at the California Alliance Concerned with School-Aged Parenting and Pregnancy Prevention annual conference. Sacramento, CA. (see also book chapter excerpts and discussion on this topic)
  4. Constantine, N. A., Slater, J.K., & Carroll, J. (2003, November). Motivational aspects of community support for school-based comprehensive sexuality education. Poster presented at the American Public Health Association annual meeting. San Francisco, CA.
  5. Constantine, N. A., Slater, J. K., & Carroll, J. (2002, November). Smoking cessation and relapse among pregnant and postpartum adolescents: Preliminary results. Presentation at the National Conference on Tobacco or Health. San Francisco, CA.
  6. Constantine, N. A. (2002, January). Promoting healthy adolescent sexual behavior: A youth development perspective. Presentation at the California Healthy Schools/Healthy People VIII conference, Los Angeles, CA.
  7. Constantine, N. A. (2000, November). HIV and adolescents: A developmental perspective. Invited presentation to the California HIV Planning Group, Burbank, CA. (similar to above)
  8. Constantine, N. A., Curry, K., Huh-Kim, J., & Oliver, A. (2000, July). Effectiveness of a small group anger-management counseling intervention for rural elementary and middle school students. Presentation at the Evaluation for Practice International Conference, Huddersfield, UK.
  9. Constantine, N. A., Huh-Kim, J., Diaz, M., & Curry, K. (2000, April). Factors associated with aggressive behavior in rural middle school students. Poster presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence annual conference, Chicago.
  10. Constantine, N. A., Curry, K., & Berry, C. (1999, August). The California HIV Prevention Education Technical Assistance Network: Supporting school-linked HIV prevention education. Paper presented at the CDC  National Leadership Conference to Strengthen HIV/AIDS Education and Coordinated School Health Programs. Atlanta, GA.
  11. Constantine, N. A., Simpson, C., Rivera-Bautista, L., Diaz, M., & Benard, B. (1999, August). Youth-driven tobacco policy change: The Tobacco Industry Gets Hammered by Teens Youth program. Symposium presented at the 1999 Society for Prevention Research National Conference, New Orleans.
  12. Constantine, N. A., Benard, B., & Diaz M. (1999, June). Measuring protective factors and resilience traits in youth: The Healthy Kids Resilience Assessment. Paper presented at the 1999 Society for Prevention Research National Conference, New Orleans.
  13. Curry, K. & Constantine, N. A. (1999, April). Implementation of a peer mediation program in six rural elementary and middle schools: A comprehensive qualitative evaluation. Paper presented at the 1999 American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada.
  14. Constantine, N. A. & Curry, K. (1998, November). Collaborative development of a theory-based student assessment for a violence prevention program evaluation. Paper presented at the 1998 American Evaluation Association Annual Conference, Chicago.
  15. Constantine, N. A., Slater, J. K., and Binson, D. (1998, August). Collecting sexual behavior data from adolescents in schools: Challenges and strategies. Presentation to the 24th International Congress of Applied Psychology, San Francisco, CA.
  16. Constantine, N. A. & Cagampang, H. H. (1998, August). Improving local evaluation utility within multi-site risk behavior prevention programs. Paper presented at the 106th Annual Conference of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA. (full text version)
  17. Constantine, N. A., Aronson, J., and Wilber, S. (1997). Data standards and integrated data systems: Lessons from the California Interagency Data Collaboration. CD-ROM Proceedings of the Partnerships, Technologies, and Communities: Evolving Roles for Health Data conference. Washington, DC: National Center for Health Statistics.

 Articles

  1. Constantine, N.A. & Jerman, P. (in press). Acceptance of human papillomavirus vaccination by Californian parents of daughters: A representative statewide analysis. Journal of Adolescent Health.
  2. Constantine, N. A., Slater, J. K., & Carroll, J. (in press). Motivational aspects of community support for comprehensive school-based sexuality education. Sex Education.
  3. Constantine, N.A. (in press). Simpson's paradox. To appear in S. Boslaugh (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Epidemiology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishers.
  4. Constantine, N.A. (in press). The peer review process. To appear in S. Boslaugh (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Epidemiology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishers.
  5. Constantine, N.A. (in press). Publication bias. To appear in S. Boslaugh (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Epidemiology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishers.
  6. Constantine, N. A., Nevarez, C. R., Miller, M., & Hamilton, P. (2006). A statewide policy advocacy intervention in California: The No Time For Complacency initiative. Californian Journal of Health Promotion, 4,10-22.
  7. Constantine, N. A. (2004). Changes in sexual behaviors among high school students [letter]. Journal of Adolescent Health, 35, 430-431. [critiqued article] [author's response]
  8. Constantine, N. A. & Moskowitz, J. M. (2004). California adolescents' use of family planning services [letter]. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 36(6), 288-289.
  9. Constantine, N. A. (1999). [Book review of Evaluating HIV Prevention Interventions.] American Journal of Evaluation, 20(1), 141-143.
  10. Constantine, W. L., Haynes, C., Spiker, D., & Constantine, N. A. (1993). Recruitment and retention in a multisite clinical trial for low birth weight infants. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 14(1), 1-7.
  11. Slater, J.K. (1993). Using regional school networks to orchestrate reform in California middle grades. Elementary School Journal, 93(5), 481-493.
  12. LeTendre, D., Spiker, D., & Constantine, N. A. (1992). Establishing a ceiling on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development at 24 months. In L. Lipsitt & C. K. Rovee-Collier (Eds.), Advances in Infancy Research: Vol. 7 (pp. 187-198). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
  13. Spiker, D., Kraemer, H. C., Constantine, N. A., and Bryant, D. (1992). Reliability and validity of behavior problem checklists as measures of stable traits in low birth weight preschool children. Child Development, 63(6), 1481-1496.
  14. Infant Health and Development Program: Gross, R. T., Spiker, D., Constantine, N. A., et al. (1990). Enhancing the outcomes of low birth weight, premature infants: A multisite, randomized trial. Journal of the American Medical Association, 263(22), 3035-3042.
  15. Constantine, N. A., Kraemer, H. C., Kendall-Tackett, K. A., Bennett, F. C., Tyson, J. E., & Gross, R. T. (1987). Use of physical and neurologic observations in assessment of gestational age in low birth weight infants. Journal of Pediatrics, 110(6), 921-928.

Books, Monographs, and Reports

  1. Constantine, N. A & Braverman, M.T. (2004). Appraising evidence on program effectiveness. In M.T. Braverman, N. A. Constantine, and J. K. Slater (Eds.), Foundations and evaluation: Contexts and practices for effective philanthropy. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
  2. Braverman, M. T. Constantine, N. A., & Slater, J. K. (Eds.) (2004). Foundations and evaluation: Contexts and practices for effective philanthropy. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
  3. Kit for New Parents Research Group. (2004). Final results for the Kit for New Parents evaluation. Center for Community Wellness, University of California, Berkeley.
  4. Constantine, N. A. (2004). School health indicators for California communities. Oakland, CA: Partnership for the Public's Health. (large pdf file, allow several minutes to download)
  5. Constantine, N. A. & Nevarez, C. R. (2003). No Time for Complacency: Teen Births in California. Berkeley, CA: Public Health Institute.
  6. Slater, J. K. & Constantine, N. A. (2002). Multi-Site Implementation Evaluation of the Sacramento County HIV/AIDS Education and Prevention Program. Berkeley, CA: Public Health Institute.
  7. Constantine, N. A. and Benard, B. (2001). California Healthy Kids Survey Resilience Assessment Module: Technical Report. Berkeley, CA: Public Health Institute. [full appendices]
  8. Constantine, N. A., Constantine, W. L., & Wrona, M. R. (1997). Data management systems. In R. T. Gross, D. Spiker, & C. Haynes (Eds.), Helping Low Birth Weight, Premature Babies: The Infant Health and Development Program. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
  9. Scott, D. T., Spiker, D., Kraemer, H. C., Bauer, C., Bryant, D., Constantine, N. A., & Tyson, J. E. (1997) Possible confounding factors concerning primary child outcome measures. In R. T. Gross, D. Spiker, & C. Haynes (Eds.), Helping Low Birth Weight, Premature Babies: The Infant Health and Development Program. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
  10. Constantine, W. L., Haynes, C., Spiker, D., and Constantine, N. A. (1997). Recruitment and retention. In R. T. Gross, D. Spiker, and C. Haynes (Eds.), Helping Low Birth Weight, Premature Babies: The Infant Health and Development Program. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
  11. Braverman, M.T. & Slater, J.K. (Eds.) (1996). Advances in Survey Research. New Directions for Evaluation, No. 70. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.