People

Faculty

Linda Ciofu Baumann, PhD, APRN, BC, FAAN
Professor

PhD, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Social Psychology
MS, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Psychology
MS, University of Michigan, Medical–Surgical Nursing
BSN, University of Michigan, Nursing

Office Location: K6/342 CSC
Telephone: (608) 263-5272
E-mail: ljbauman@wisc.edu

Linda Baumann’s major research interests include factors that influence a person’s decision to engage in self-regulating behaviors for health promotion or self-care associated with chronic disease management (e.g., hypertension, diabetes). She has conducted both experimental and descriptive studies of how a person’s beliefs about symptoms and illness influence health-related actions. Recent work focuses on health disparities of race/ethnicity and income in relationship to healthy lifestyle changes in diet and physical activity. Professor Baumann has expanded her research on diabetes self-care to developing countries, specifically Vietnam and Uganda.

Representative Publications

Baumann, L., Zimmerman, R. & Leventhal, H. (1989). An experiment in common sense: Education at blood pressure screening. Patient Education and Counseling, 14, 53-67.

Keller, M.L., Ward, S.E., & Baumann, L.J. (1989). Processes of self-care: Monitoring sensations and symptoms. Advances in Nursing Science, 12(1), 54-66.

Baumann, L., & Keller, M. (1991). Responses to threat information: Implications for screening. Image: Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 23, 13-18.

Baumann, L.J., Young, C.J., & Egan, J. (1992). Living with a heart transplant: Long-term adjustment. Transplant International, 5, 1-8.

Love, R.R., Brown, R.L., Davis, J.E., Baumann, L.J., Fontana, S.A., & Sanner, L.A. (1993). Frequency and determinants of screening for breast cancer in primary care group practice. Archives of Internal Medicine, 153, 2113-2117.

Baumann, L.C., & Schmelzer, M. (1994). Writing to learn in community health nursing: The aggregate. Public Health Nursing, 11, 255-258.

Han, Y., Baumann, L.C., & Cimprich, B. (1996). Factors influencing RNs teaching breast self-examination to female clients. Cancer Nursing, 19(3), 197-203.

Brown, R.L., Baumann, L.J., Helberg, C.P., Han, Y., Fontana, S.A., & Love, R.R. (1996). The simultaneous analysis of patient, physician, and clinic influences on annual mammography performance. Social Science & Medicine, 43(3), 315-324.

Brown, R.L., Baumann, L.J., & Cameron, L. (1996). A cautionary note regarding the use of single-level analysis of intervention studies with hierarchically structured data. Nursing Research, 45, 359-362.

Baumann, L.C., Han, Y., & Love, R.R. (1997). Beliefs about breast cancer and care seeking in Vietnam. Clinical Excellence for Nurse Practitioners: The International Journal of NPACE, 5, 301-311.

Fontana, S.A., Baumann, L.C., Helberg, C., Bechhofer, R., & Love, R.R. (1997) Delivery of preventive services in primary care according to chronic disease status. American Journal of Public Health, 87, 1190-1196.

Baumann, L.C., Duerst, B., Boh, L., Girdley, F., & Heiss, W. (1999). Interdisciplinary training for rural Wisconsin's health care professionals. National Academies of Practice Forum, 1, 99-105.

Oakley, L.D., Baumann, L.C., & Becker, P.T. (1999). Academic nursing practice: A community-based public-private partnership. In Putting It All Together: Proceedings of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's 1997 and 1998 Faculty Practice Conferences. (pp. 39-51). Washington DC: American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

Baumann, L.C. (2000). Incorporating commonsense into diagnostic reasoning. In K. Crabtree (Ed.). Teaching Clinical Decision Making in Advanced Nursing Practice. (pp. 133-139). Washington, DC: National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculty.

Severtson, D.J., Baumann, L.C., & Will, J. (2002). A participatory assessment of environmental health concerns in an Ojibwa community. Public Health Nursing, 19, 47-58.

Baumann, L.C., Chang, M., & Hoebeke, R., (2002). Clinical outcomes for racially diverse adults with hypertension and diabetes. Nursing Research, 51, 191-198.

Baumann, L.C. (2002). Culture and illness. In L.D. Cameron & H. Leventhal (Eds.) The Self-Regulation of Health and Illness Behaviour.

Chang, M., Nitzke, S., Brown, R.L., & Baumann, L.C. (2003). Development and validation of a self-efficacy measure for fat intake behaviors of low-income women. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 35(6), 302-307.

Chang, M., Brown, RL, Nitzke, S, & Baumann LC (2004). Development of an instrument to assess predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing constructs associated with fat intake behaviors of low-income mothers. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 36, 27-34.

Love, R.R., Duc, N.B., Baumann, L.C., Anh, P.T.H., To, T.V., Qian, Z., & Havighurst, T.C. (2004). Duration of signs and survival in premenopausal women with breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 1, 1-9.

Chang, M., Baumann LC, Nitzke, S, & Brown, RL, (2005). Predictors of fat intake behaviour differences between normal weight and obese WIC mothers. American Journal of Health Promotion, 19, 269-277.22.

Severtson, D., Baumann, L.C., & Brown, RL. Applying a Health Behavior Theory to Explore the Influence of Information and Experience on Arsenic Risk Representations, Policy Beliefs, and Protective Behavior. (in press). Risk Analysis: An International Journal.

Baumann, LC, Blobner, D., Binh, TV, Lan, PT (2006). A training program for diabetes care in Vietnam. The Diabetes Educator 32, 189-194.

Bathum, M.E. & Baumann, L.C. (2008). A sense of community among Latina immigrants. Journal of Family and Community Health, 30 (3), 167-177.

Haq, C., Baumann, LC, Olsen, CW, Diprete Brown, L., Kraus, C., Bousquet, G., Conway, J., & Easterday, B. (2008). Creating a Center for Global Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Academic Medicine, 83 (2): 148-153.

Severtson, DJ, Baumann, LC, Brown, RL. (2008). Applying the common sense model to understand representations of arsenic contaminated well water. Journal of Health Communication, 13, 538-554.

Selected Presentations

Nursing in Africa: Beyond HIV/AIDS and Into Chronic Care, 32nd Annual MNRS Research Conference, March 29, 2008. (download PDF, 5.42 MB)

Selected Awards and Honors

Research Ambassador, Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research, 2007

Chancellor’s Award for Exemplary University Community Partnership for Harambee Health Hour, 2004

Fellow, Society of Behavioral Medicine, 2004

Book of the Year Award for advanced practice nursing from the American Journal of Nursing: Dains, JE, Baumann LC, & Scheibel P. Advanced Assessment and Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care. St. Louis: Mosby Yearbook, Inc., 2003

Primary Care Policy Fellow, Bureau of Health Professionals, Health Resources and Services Administration, Washington DC, 1998

Fellow, American Academy of Nursing (FAAN), 1997