Aromatherapy in Providing a Semen Sample

Menekşe Nazlı AKER

Status: Completed

Conditions: Infertility, Male

Treatments: Other: Aromatherapy; Other: Placebo

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06241495

İ04-205-23

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of aromatherapy on the anxiety and difficulty of providing a semen sample and on semen volume, sperm concentration and motility percentage.

The study will be carried out in two different groups. After the men are evaluated in terms of eligibility criteria for the research, the men who are eligible will be informed about the research and written informed consent will be obtained from the men who accept. The random distribution of men to the study groups will be carried out random. The following applications will be made to the groups. Aromatherapy/placebo will be applied to the individuals included in the study. During the semen sample giving process, lavender oil/coconut oil (placebo) will be applied with a diffuser.

Enrollment: 102 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Having applied to the center where the research will be conducted with a complaint of infertility
• Being 18 years or older

Exclusion criteria

• Individuals giving up on participating in the study
• Participant not being able to provide a semen sample
• Being diagnosed with azoospermia-oligozoospermia

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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102 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Aromatherapy

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Aromatherapy

Control Group

Placebo Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Placebo