The Effect Of Lavender Essential Oil On Birth Pain

Near East University, Turkey

Status: Completed

Conditions: Labor Pain; Aromatherapy

Treatments: Other: Aromatherapy application /massage with lavender oil; Other: Aromatherapy application / inhalation with lavender oil

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05169138

2021/1367

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study was planned as a randomized controlled trial to determine the effect of lavender oil applied to primiparous women by inhalation and massage methods on labor pain.

Full description

In universe of the research; Pregnant women who applied to Adana Seyhan State Hospital's Marsa Gynecology and Obstetrics Additional Service Building and Obstetrics Service and Delivery Room between the dates of the study, accepted to participate in the study voluntarily and who met the research conditions included. Numbers 1-2 of a 6-sided dice determined by the dice rolling system formed the control group (40 pregnant), numbers 3-4 were lavender oil inhalation group (44 pregnant), and numbers 5-6 were lavender oil massage group (37 pregnant).

The research was carried out in three stages for the experimental groups and control groups. First stage; Informed Voluntary Consent Form and Questionnaire were applied to the pregnant women whose groups were determined by the chosen randomization method. Afterwards, for the experimental groups according to the group; 10-minute training sessions were given on the inhalation method or massage method with aromatic lavender essential oil. In the second stage; Data were recorded by dividing the first phase of labor into 3 phases for each group. Visual Analog Pain Scale and McGill Melzack Pain Questionnaire were applied to the experimental groups 6 times, before and 30 minutes after the application. At this stage, no application was made in the control group, the Visual Analog Pain Scales and McGill Melzack Pain Questionnaire were applied at the beginning of each phase, the same forms were repeated after 30 minutes and the data were recorded 6 times in total. In the third stage; In the postpartum period, the study was completed by applying the Postpartum Period Information Collection Form by face-to-face interviews with the experimental groups and the pregnant women in the control group.

Enrollment: 121 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 35 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

INCLUSİON CRİTERİA:

• Single pregnancy
• Primiparous gestational age more than 36 weeks (term)
• Cervical dilatation of at least 3 cm
• Pregnants with 3 uterine contractions in a 10-minute period lasting at least 30 seconds
• Cephalic presentation
• Not receiving analgesics, sedatives or anesthetics during labor,
• Not using induction at birth

EXCLUSİON CRİTERİA:

• Multiparity
• cephalopelvic incompatibility
• third trimester bleeding history
• intrauterine growth retardation
• multiple pregnancy
• breech presentation
• subject's withdrawal from clinical trial
• allergy to aromatic lavender essential oil
• addiction (alcohol, smoking)
• obstetric conditions requiring emergency cesarean section
• infertility history
• previous history of diagnosis of an underlying disease
• induction at birth

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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121 participants in 3 patient groups, including a placebo group

massage group with lavender essential oil

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Pregnant women (n:37) who participated in this group were given an intense massage for at least 10 minutes in each phase during the first phase of labor. Visual Analog Pain Scale and McGill Melzack Pain Questionnaire were applied before and after the application, and the process was completed with a total of 6 measurements.

Treatment:

Other: Aromatherapy application /massage with lavender oil

group of inhalations with lavender essential oil

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Pregnant women (n:44) who participated in this group were administered inhalation with lavender oil at an intensity of at least 10 minutes in each phase during the first phase of labor. Visual Analog Pain Scale and McGill Melzack Pain Questionnaire were applied before and after the application, and the process was completed with a total of 6 measurements.

Treatment:

Other: Aromatherapy application / inhalation with lavender oil

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

No application was made to the pregnant women (n:40) who participated in this group in each phase of the first phase of labor. Despite this, the Visual Analog Pain Scale and McGill Melzack Pain Questionnaire, which were applied at the beginning of each phase in order to increase the reliability of the results, were re-evaluated 30 minutes after the measurements, even though there was no application, and the process was completed with a total of 6 measurements.