Effectiveness of Aromatherapy Yoga

Yang Shang-Yu

Status: Completed

Conditions: Female College Students

Treatments: Behavioral: Aromatherapy yoga; Behavioral: Yoga

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05459025

HZAUHU-2021-0001

Details and patient eligibility

About

College students, particularly female students, often suffer from severe stress and poor sleep. Aromatherapy yoga has become a popular exercise in recent years and may help reduce stress and improve sleep quality, although empirical evidence is limited. We investigated the effective-ness of aromatherapy yoga intervention in reducing stress and improving sleep quality among female college students. Eighty-nine participants (44 in the experimental group [aromatherapy yoga] and 45 in the control group [yoga]), with an average age of 19.88 ± 1.13 years, were en-rolled in this quasi-experimental study. Interventions were performed in the respective groups once a week for 12 weeks, for 90 minutes each time. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test and Mann-Whitney U test (including effect size) were used to test the differences in stress reduction and sleep quality before and after the intervention.

Enrollment: 89 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 21 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• We included female college students aged > 18 years, who were able to understand the questionnaire.

Exclusion criteria

• We excluded male students, those with a history of respiratory disease, asthma, or allergy to flowers, plants, or essential oils, those who worked at night, and those with a history of mental diseases.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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89 participants in 2 patient groups

Aromatherapy yoga

Experimental group

Description:

Each intervention session lasted 90 min, between 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The course was held in a yoga classroom once a week, in an area of 30 m × 35 m. Furthermore, the total intervention period lasted for 12 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Aromatherapy yoga

Yoga

Active Comparator group

Description:

Each intervention session lasted 90 min, between 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The course was held in a yoga classroom once a week, in an area of 30 m × 35 m. Furthermore, the total intervention period lasted for 12 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Yoga