Aromatherapy Versus Gum Chewing on Preoperative Anxiety

Assiut University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anxiety

Treatments: Other: Controlled; Other: Gum Chewing; Other: Aromatherapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04971668

17300635

Details and patient eligibility

About

Investigators hypothesized that the use of blend aromatherapy and gum chewing before surgery would reduce preoperative anxiety as assessed by the Speilberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) questionnaire and provide non pharmacological methods to decrease postoperative sore throat, postoperative nausea & vomiting and postoperative pain.

Full description

A written informed consent will be taken from the patients.patients will be assigned randomly to three groups (30 subjects each) either with preoperative aromatherapy (Group A) or gum chewing (Group G) or control group (Group C) to assess the preoperative anxiety and postoperative sore throat, nausea & vomiting and pain control between the three studied groups.

Enrollment: 90 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Educated adult females
• American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status I-II
• Listed for elective gynecological laparoscopy surgery under general anesthesia and endotracheal tube (ETT)

Exclusion criteria

• Impaired pharyngeal or esophageal function
• Phenylketonuria (contraindication to the sweetener aspartame in chewing gum)
• A fall upper or lower denture (not feasible to chew gum)
• A history of preoperative sore throat, upper respiratory tract illness
• Using steroid or analgesia within the last 48 hour
• Chronic smokers
• Receiving warfarin, heparin, full dose 325 mg aspirin, or clopidogrel
• A history or diagnosis of bleeding diatheses
• Any known allergies to ginger or lavender
• Having head or neck surgery
• History of difficult intubation
• Pregnant women

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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90 participants in 3 patient groups

Aromatherapy

Experimental group

Description:

Designated blend aromatherapy (ginger \& lavender) and patient will be asked to inhale deeply and simulate like chewing gum for 5 minutes.

Treatment:

Other: Aromatherapy

Gum Chewing

Experimental group

Description:

Patients will chew gum (sugar free) and inhale deeply with inert gauze for 5 minutes.

Treatment:

Other: Gum Chewing

Placebo

Other group

Description:

Patient will simulate like chewing gum and inhale deeply with inert gauze for 5 minutes.

Treatment:

Other: Controlled