Descriptive Summary
Repository: University of Virginia School of Nursing, Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry
Title: Linda F. C. Bullock Research Papers
Physical Characteristics: 14.0 linear feet; 32 boxes
Language: English
Collector: Linda F. C. Bullock
Biographical Information
Linda F. C. Bullock, PhD, RN, FAAN, held the Jeanette Lancaster Alumni Professorship in Nursing at the University of Virginia School of Nursing from 2010 until her retirement in 2017. Under her previous academic appointment at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Sinclair School of Nursing (1997-2010), she undertook the monumental research studies represented in this collection.
Bullock earned a BS in biology from Texas A&M University in 1971, and a second Bachelors of Science, in Nursing, magna cum laude, from Texas Women’s University in 1983, followed by an MS in Community Health Nursing, summa cum laude, from the same school in 1987. Her PhD in Public Health was awarded by the faculty of the Otago Medical School, Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1996.
The Sigma Theta Tau nursing honor society conferred two research awards on Dr. Bullock, in 2000 and 2004, and the American Academy of Nursing named her a fellow in 2003. She has numerous publications and research grants to her credit in the fields of maternal child health and international public health.
Scope and Content
This remarkable and important collection of research materials derives from two grant-funded clinical trials directed by Professor Bullock of the Sinclair School of Nursing at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Professor Bullock and her colleagues crafted these projects as randomized, controlled trials of telephone and in-person visits, designed in the first case to aid smoking cessation among low-income pregnant women residing in the Ozarks region of Missouri. The supplementary research project queried the effectiveness of such methods of social support in reducing domestic violence in homes with young children in the same region.
Items in the collection include the complete grant applications submitted to the National Institute of Nursing Research of the National Institutes of Health, and Institutional Review Board documentation and certifications, as well as project forms, scripts, protocols, a training manual, and similar documents. Beyond these administrative materials, the vast majority of the papers comprise anonymous client files, with summaries of interviews, conversations, and client self-reporting of life experiences. It is in these client raw-data files where the immense value of the collection lies.
Bullock and her colleagues published the results of their statistical data collection and analysis — one reprint for the smoking cessation study is included here — but the living conditions and life experiences of the women who participated in the trial offer many more opportunities for scholarly interrogation of the nature of poverty in early 21st-century rural America. A number of issues come to the fore in the interviews, among them: race and ethnicity; educational and employment conditions; family structure; isolation and transience; physical and emotional violence; substance abuse; criminal justice; and religious faith. How can nursing and the opportunities it provides for personal connection effect a positive change in the life conditions of vulnerable individuals?
Series Description
The initial two boxes of the papers contain administrative materials specific to the grant application and review processes, as well as operational documentation, all organized alphabetically by subject heading. The remaining thirty boxes contain the anonymous client data files ordered by the sequential number assigned to each individual client. Gaps in the numerical sequence indicate a differentiation in client cohorts assigned to each one of the project’s nurse field workers. Bullock herself describes: “there were 4 nurses hired at the beginning and they each had study numbers (101-299)(301-499)(501-599) and (601-799). Towards the end of the 3rd year — we hired 2 additional nurses and one had 801-899 and the other had 901-948.”
“Actual recruitment numbers for each nurse are as follows:
“Nurse A — 100-286
“Nurse B (there was an issue with early patients the nurse recruited and we had to drop subjects 301-320, 322, 323, 325-331...). So the new Nurse B took on 321 and 324 because their records had not been contaminated... and then recruited subjects 322-497.
“Nurse C — 501-575
“Nurse D — 601-776”
“New nurses hired toward the end of the study:
“Nurse E — 801-843
“Nurse F 901-948”
“If you add these up — you will get 695 women recruited...”
The files for all 695 individuals are present in boxes 3-32.
Contents List
GRANT APPLICATION: BABY BEEP STUDY (FOLDER I).
2000-01 Box-Folder: 01-001
GRANT APPLICATION: BABY BEEP STUDY (FOLDER II).
2000-01 Box-Folder: 01-002
GRANT APPLICATION: BABY BEEP KIDS STUDY (FOLDER I).
2004 Box-Folder: 01-003
GRANT APPLICATION: BABY BEEP KIDS STUDY (FOLDER II).
2004 Box-Folder: 01-004
INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD MATERIALS: BABY BEEP STUDY (FOLDER I).
1995-2002 Box-Folder: 01-005
INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD MATERIALS: BABY BEEP STUDY (FOLDER II).
2003-2011 Box-Folder: 01-006
INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD MATERIALS: BABY BEEP KIDS STUDY (FOLDER I).
2002-04 Box-Folder: 02-001
INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD MATERIALS: BABY BEEP KIDS STUDY (FOLDER II).
2005-2001 Box-Folder: 02-002
PROJECT DOCUMENTATION: BLANK FORMS/MASTERS.
2002-09 Box-Folder: 02-003
PROJECT DOCUMENTATION: FINAL REPORT: BABY BEEP STUDY.
2006 Box-Folder: 02-004
PROJECT DOCUMENTATION: LETTERS OF LINDA BULLOCK WITH RICHARD WINDOR AND YVONNE BRYAN CONCERNING LABORATORY SAMPLE ANALYSIS FAILURE.
2004/04 Box-Folder: 02-005
PROJECT DOCUMENTATION: PROTOCOL FOR VISITS: BABY BEEP KIDS STUDY.
n.d. Box-Folder: 02-006
PROJECT DOCUMENTATION: SAMPLE FORMS: BABY BEEP STUDY.
2002-04 Box-Folder: 02-007
PROJECT DOCUMENTATION: SAMPLE FORMS: BABY BEEP KIDS STUDY.
2002, 2006, n.d. Box-Folder: 02-008
PROJECT DOCUMENTATION: SCRIPTS/MATERIALS FROM OTHER STUDIES.
1992, n.d. Box-Folder: 02-009
PROJECT DOCUMENTATION: SCRIPTS/PROTOCOLS: DRAFTS: BABY BEEP STUDY.
2002, 2004-05 Box-Folder: 02-010
PROJECT DOCUMENTATION: SCRIPTS/PROTOCOLS IN LAMINATED SHEETS.
2005, n.d. Box-Folder: 02-011
PROJECT DOCUMENTATION: TRANSPORTATION SUMMARIES: BABY BEEP AND BABY BEEP KIDS STUDIES.
2001-08 Box-Folder: 02-012
REPRINT: LINDA BULLOCK, ET AL, “BABY BEEP: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF NURSES’ INDIVIDUALIZED SOCIAL SUPPORT FOR POOR RURAL PREGNANT SMOKERS,” MATERNAL CHILD HEALTH JOURNAL 13 (2009): 395-406. ALSO CONTAINS PROJECT DESCRIPTION OUTLINE.
2009 Box-Folder: 02-013
TRAINING MANUAL, BABY BEEP STUDY (FOLDER I).
2001/11/5-16 Box-Folder: 02-014
TRAINING MANUAL, BABY BEEP STUDY (FOLDER II).
2001/11/5-16 Box-Folder: 02-015
CLIENT NUMBERS 101-127.
2002-03 Box 03
CLIENT NUMBERS 127-160
2002-03 Box 04
CLIENT NUMBERS 161-183
2003 Box 05
CLIENT NUMBERS 184-200
2003-04 Box 06
CLIENT NUMBERS 201-219
2003-04 Box 07
CLIENT NUMBERS 220-242
2003-05 Box 08
CLIENT NUMBERS 243-260
2004-05 Box 09
CLIENT NUMBERS 261-281
2004-05 Box 10
CLIENT NUMBERS 282-286, 301-332
2002-05 Box 11
CLIENT NUMBERS 333-361
2002-03 Box 12
CLIENT NUMBERS 362-388
2002-06 Box 13
CLIENT NUMBERS 389-410
2003-06 Box 14
CLIENT NUMBERS 411-431
2003-06 Box 15
CLIENT NUMBERS 432-450
2004-07 Box 16
CLIENT NUMBERS 451-471
2004-07 Box 17
CLIENT NUMBERS 472-492
2005-07 Box 18
CLIENT NUMBERS 493-497, 501-516
2002-07 Box 19
CLIENT NUMBERS 517-553
2002-06 Box 20
CLIENT NUMBERS 554-575, 601-605
2002-06 Box 21
CLIENT NUMBERS 606-643
2002-03 Box 22
CLIENT NUMBERS 644-669, NUMBER 666 MISSING
2003-06 Box 23
CLIENT NUMBERS 670-689
2003-06 Box 24
CLIENT NUMBERS 690-713
2003-04, 2017 Box 25
CLIENT NUMBERS NN-NN
X Box 26
CLIENT NUMBERS NN-NN
X Box 27
CLIENT NUMBERS NN-NN
X Box 28
CLIENT NUMBERS NN-NN
X Box 29
CLIENT NUMBERS NN-NN
X Box 30
CLIENT NUMBERS NN-NN
X Box 31
CLIENT NUMBERS NN-NN
X Box 32
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University of Virginia School of Nursing, Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, Linda F. C. Bullock Research Papers
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