Effect of Inhalation Aromatherapy on Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms of Geriatric Patients With Parkinson's Disease

Alexandria University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Inhalation Aromatherapy

Treatments: Combination Product: Inhalation Aromatherapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05728177

1112023

Details and patient eligibility

About

The present study aims to:

Investigate the effect of inhalation aromatherapy on anxiety and depressive symptoms of geriatric patients with Parkinson's disease.

Research Hypothesis:

Patients with Parkinson's disease who inhale aromatherapy will exhibit lower anxiety and depressive symptoms than those who didn't inhale it

Full description

A sample of 60 randomly selected patients with patients Parkinson's disease was included in this study. The study subjects were divided equally into two groups; study (30 patients) and a control group (30 patients) matched as much as possible. Exclusion criteria included patients diagnosed for Parkinson's by a specialist, no use of any complementary alternative medicine methods (herbal medicines and other methods) in the past one week, no use of anxiolytics or antidepressants drugs, no history of respiratory problems as asthma, eczema and allergies to flowers and plants and no smell disorders. Patients who were not willing to participate, not able to provide written consent or not able to communicate coherently and relevantly or showed symptoms of allergy to lavender were excluded from the study.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

patients diagnosed for Parkinson's by a specialist

Exclusion criteria

no use of any complementary alternative medicine methods (herbal medicines and other methods) in the past one week, no use of anxiolytics or antidepressants drugs, no history of respiratory problems as asthma, eczema and allergies to flowers and plants and no smell disorders. Patients who were not willing to participate, not able to provide written consent or not able to communicate coherently and relevantly or showed symptoms of allergy to lavender will be excluded from the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

STUDY GROUP

Experimental group

Description:

Patients' medical charts in the outpatient clinic were reviewed to identify those who meet the inclusion criteria. Patients who meet the predetermined inclusion criteria were recruited in the study using simple randomization technique using computer-generated sequence technique to pick up these patients. After simple sampling and dividing patients into two groups of study and control. Patients from the study and control groups were interviewed individually by the researcher to apply the study tools The program of intervention took four-weeks for each patient (total eight sessions- four outpatient sessions and four home-based sessions- two sessions per week- one outpatient and one home session/week). The outpatient sessions were done once per week during the patient visit to the outpatient clinic, as the patients visited the clinic 4 times/ month.

Treatment:

Combination Product: Inhalation Aromatherapy

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients in this control group will be left without any intervention to undergo the usual outpatient routine care.

Treatment:

Combination Product: Inhalation Aromatherapy