Renee Sieving, School of Nursing, University of Minnesota

Renee Sieving, PhD, MSN, RNC Associate Professor Telephone Number: 612-626-4527 FAX Number: 612-625-7091 E-mail Address: sievi001@umn.edu Office Location: 6-189B Weaver-Densford Hall

Mailing Address:

School of Nursing
University of Minnesota
5-140 Weaver-Densford Hall
308 Harvard Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Educational Background:

BA, 1983, Biology, Concordia University, River Forest, IL
MSN, 1985, Parent-Child Nursing, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Fellowship, 1991, Adolescent Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
PhD, 1996, Behavioral Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Teaching Areas:

Clinical Assessment and Interventions with Adolescents
Critical Reading of Adolescent Health Scientific Literature

Research Interests:

Specialty areas are youth health promotion; prevention of multiple health risk behaviors (sexual risks, violence involvement, school drop-out) among adolescents. (Recent grants and selected publications are listed below.)

Research and Educational Grants:

Project Title: Adolescent Health Protection Research Training
Funding Agency: DHHS/CDC
Role: Nursing Team Coordinator
Project Date(s): 9/30/04-9/29/07/04-9/29/07

Project Title: Partners in Action for Teen Health
Funding Agency: UMN Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA)
Role: Principal Investigator
Project Date(s): 6/1/04-5/31/05

Project Title: Center for Adolescent Nursing
Funding Agency: DHHS/HRSA/MCHB
Role: Faculty
Project Date(s): 7/03-6/08

Project Title: Leadership Education in Adolescent Health (LEAH)
Funding Agency: DHHS/HRSA/MCHB
Role: Faculty
Project Date(s): 7/02-6/07

Project Title: Center for Healthy Youth Development
Funding Agency: CDC
Role: Co-I
Project Date(s):9/04-9/09

Project Title: Religiosity and Adolescent Sexual Behaviors (joint proposal with Child Trends)
Funding Agency: CDC/AAMC
Role: PI
Project Date(s): 10/03-9/06

Project Title: Prime Time: Health Promotion for Multiple Risk Behaviors
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Role: PI
Project Date(s): 12/03-11/04

Project Title: Prime Time: AHC
Funding Agency: University of MN, AHC
Role: Co-I
Project Date(s): 1/03-12/05

Project Title: Prime Time I--Minnesota
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Role: PI
Project Date(s): 12/02-11/07

Project Title: Evaluation of Impacts: Adolescent Teaching In an Academic Setting
Funding Agency: Viking Childrens' Fund
Role: PI
Project Date(s): 12/99-12/00

Project Title: STD/Pregnancy Protection for Sexually Experienced Adolescents
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Role:Co-I
Project Date(s): 7/99-6/02

Project Title: Adolescent Sexual Risk-Taking and Youth Development
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Role: Co-I
Project Date(s): 7/99-6/02

Project Title: Forms & Processes of Peer Influence on Adolescent Sexual Debut
Funding Agency: University of MN Grad School
Role: PI
Project Date(s): 12/98-6/00

Project Title: Training in One-on-One Approaches To Health Behavior Change Among Adolescents
Funding Agency: Viking Childrens' Fund
Role: PI
Project Date(s): 12/98-12/99

Project Title: National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Research Center
Funding Agency: CDC
Role: Co-I
Project Date(s): 9/98-9/03

Project Title: Violence Risk And Protective Factors for Vulnerable Youth
Funding Agency: CDC
Role: Co-I
Project Date(s): 9/98-9/02

Project Title: Paths to Teen Substance Abuse: Age & Ethnic Variations
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Role: PI
Project Date(s): 7/98-6/00

Project Title: Interdisciplinary Research Development in Perinatal Health
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Role: Co-I
Project Date(s): 9/97-9/98

Project Title: Use of Home Pregnancy Testing Among Twin Cities' Adolescents
Funding Agency: University of MN Grad School
Role: Co-I
Project Date(s): 3/97-3/98

Project Title: Dissemination of Effective School Health Programs
Funding Agency: CDC
Role: PI
Project Date(s): 3/97-2/98

Project Title: Adolescent Actors Teaching Project for Primary Care Training
Funding Agency: MinnesotaCare
Role: Co-I
Project Date(s): 1/97-12/98

Project Title: National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Research Center
Funding Agency: CDC
Role: Co-I
Project Date(s): 10/96-9/98

Selected Publications

Sieving, R. E., Eisenberg, M. E., Pettingell, S., & Skay, C. (2006). Friends' influence on adolescents' first sexual intercourse. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 38(1), 13-19.

Eisenberg, M. E., Bearinger, L. H., Sieving, R. E., Swain, C., & Resnick, M. D. (2004). Parents' beliefs about condoms and oral contraceptives: Are they medically accurate? Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 36(2), 50-57.

Sieving, R., Resnick, M., Fee, R., Oliphant, J., Pettingell, S., Russ, P., et al. (2003). Prime Time: A youth development approach to preventing negative sexual health outcomes [Abstract]. Journal of Adolescent Health, 32(2), 154.

McNeely C, Shew M, Beuhring T, Sieving R, Miller B, Blum R (2002). Mothers' influence on adolescents' sexual debut. Journal of Adolescent Health, 31(3), 256-265.

Sieving R, Beuhring T, Resnick M, Shew M, Bearinger L, Ireland M, Blum R (2001). Development of adolescent self-report measures from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Journal of Adolescent Health, 28(1), 73-81.

Hellerstedt W, Fee R, McNeely C, Sieving R, Shew M, Resnick M (2001). Pregnancy feelings among adolescents awaiting pregnancy test results. Public Health Reports, 116, 180-193.

Sieving R, Maruyama G, Williams C, Perry C (2000). Pathways to adolescent alcohol use: Potential mechanisms of parent influence. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 10(4), 489-514.

Sieving R, McNeely C, Blum R (2000). Maternal expectations, mother-child connectedness, and adolescent sexual debut. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 154, 809-816.

Sieving R, Perry C, Williams C (2000). Do friendships change behaviors--or--do behaviors change friendships? Directions of influence in adolescent alcohol use. Journal of Adolescent Health, 26(1), 27-35.

Shew M, Hellerstedt W, Sieving R, Smith A, Fee R (2000). Prevalence of home pregnancy testing in adolescents. American Journal of Public Health, 90(6), 974-976.

Blum R, Beuhring T, Shew M, Bearinger L, Sieving R,Resnick M (2000). The effects of race/ethnicity, income, and family structure on adolescent risk behaviors. American Journal of Public Health, 90(12), 1879-1884.

Resnick M, Bearman P, Blum R, Bauman K, Harris K, Jones J, Tabor J, Buehring T, Sieving R, Shew M, Ireland M, Bearinger L, Udry R (1997). Protecting adolescents from harm: findings from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health. Journal of the American Medical Association, 278(10), 823-832.

Sieving R, Resnick M, Bearinger L, Remafedi G, Harmon B, Taylor B (1997). Cognitive and behavioral predictors of sexually transmitted disease risk behavior among sexually active adolescents. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 151(3), 243-251.

Sieving R, Zirbel-Donisch S (1990). Development and enhancement of self-esteem in children. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 4, 290-296.

Sieving R (1988). The timing of the measles vaccine in sub-Saharan Africa. International Nursing Review, 35, 17-20.

Center Memberships:

Center for Child and Family Health Promotion Research
Center for Adolescent Nursing