The Effect of Aromatherapy on Anxiety in Patients

Assiut University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anxiety; Pain

Treatments: Drug: Lavender Oil

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05500664

IRB00202205

Details and patient eligibility

About

Preoperative anxiety is considered a potential and preventable risk factor for postoperative complications.

Full description

Alot of patients face fear from intervention such as radiofrequency. The group of patients with chronic knee osteoarthritis already and mostly have some sore of psychological upset, radiofrequency itself , even in the presence of good periinterventional local anesthetic infiltration, the patients suffer pain and stress. It is well evidenced that aromatherapy specially with Lavender oil offers some sort of anxiety alleviation, pain alleviation and protection against postoperative nausea and vomiting

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adult patients with knee osteoarthritis
• scheduled for genicular nerve radiofrequency

Exclusion criteria

• Allergy to lavender
• psychological disorders
• upper respiratory tract illness

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Lavender

Active Comparator group

Description:

three drops of the designated lavender will be placed on a 2-inch by 2-inch impermeable, backed gauze pad and patient was asked to inhale deeply for 5 minutes

Treatment:

Drug: Lavender Oil

Control

No Intervention group