Aromatherapy for Reducing Labor Pain

Chiang Mai University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain

Treatments: Other: Aromatherapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03098212

3487

Details and patient eligibility

About

Pregnant women who eligible with inclusion criteria are random to two groups. Aromatherapy group will receive the aromatherapy during labor along with standard pain control.

Non-aromatherapy group will receive standard pain control during labor

Enrollment: 94 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Singleton pregnancy
• Nulliparous
• 37 complete weeks of gestation
• Cephalic presentation
• No emergency obstetric complication
• In labor

Exclusion criteria

• Medical or obstetric complication preclude vaginal delivery
• Essential oil allergy
• Side effect of aromatherapy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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94 participants in 2 patient groups

Aromatherapy

Experimental group

Description:

Receive essential oil diffuse by Aroma diffuser during labor. Pain score and dose of analgesics drug are recorded

Treatment:

Other: Aromatherapy

Non-aromatherapy

No Intervention group

Description:

This group receive pain control by standard of care without essential oil (aromatherapy)