The Effect of Ylang Ylang Oil and Lemon Oil (Aromatherapy)

Özlem Çağan

Status: Completed

Conditions: Aromatherapy; Pain, Labor; Anxiety

Treatments: Other: essential oils (lemon oil); Other: essential oils (Ylang ylang oil); Other: placebo (saline solutions)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05657431

Cagan01

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was conducted as a randomized controlled experimental study.To evaluate the effects of aromatherapy, one of the non-pharmacological pain methods, on labor pain and anxiety in the active phase in primiparous pregnant women.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

Is ylang ylang oil applied as an inhaler effective in reducing labor pain and anxiety? Is lemon oil applied as an inhaler effective in reducing labor pain and anxiety? Participants randomized according to the closed envelope method into the lemon oil group (n=15), ylang ylang oil group (n=15) and control group (n=15). In the active phase (cervical dilatation ≥5), a drop of essential oil was instilled onto square cotton balls to the intervention groups and renewed as one drop every hour until labor occurred. In the control group, 1 drop of saline was dripped onto square cotton balls. Visual pain scale (VAS) and state anxiety ınventory were applied to the intervention groups and control groups before the application. After the application, VAS and state anxiety ınventory were evaluated at 5-7 cm dilatation, and only with VAS at 8-10 cm dilatation. The trait anxiety ınventory was administered to the volunteers after birth.

Enrollment: 45 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 35 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Term pregnancy (37-41 weeks)
• Pregnant women between the ages of 18-35
• had singleton pregnancy with cephalic presentation of the fetus
• Not allergic to ylang ylang oil, flower/lemon or oil or anything
• Absence of any pregnancy complications
• No previous miscarriage, no abortion
• Not having any diagnosed systemic disease
• ≥ 5 cm (cm) (active phase) cervical dilatation
• Pregnant women who do not take any analgesia, anesthesia or anxiolytic drugs
• Spontaneous onset of labor
• Pregnant women who can speak and write Turkish well
• Pregnant woman's consent to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Emergency cesarean section indication
• Use of analgesic, anesthetic and anxiolytic drugs by the pregnant woman
• The pregnant woman's desire to withdraw from the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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45 participants in 3 patient groups, including a placebo group

group 1 (Ylang ylang oil)

Experimental group

Description:

A square cotton ball impregnated with a drop of ylang-ylang oil was placed in the participants randomized to group I (cervical dilatation ≥ 5) with the help of safety pins of pregnant women. One hour after the intervention (in the range of 5-7 cm cervical dilatation), pain levels were measured again with the VAS and anxiety levels were measured with the State Anxiety Scale. The essential oil was renewed as 1 drop every hour until the birth of the baby. When cervical dilatation was in the range of 8-10 cm, pain level was re-evaluated only with VAS. Spielberger Continuity Anxiety Scale was applied with face-to-face interview technique within 4-24 hours following the birth.

Treatment:

Other: essential oils (Ylang ylang oil)

group 2 (Lemon oil)

Experimental group

Description:

A square cotton ball impregnated with a drop of lemon oil was placed in the participants randomized to group 2 (cervical dilatation ≥ 5) with the help of safety pins of pregnant women. One hour after the intervention (in the range of 5-7 cm cervical dilatation), pain levels were measured again with the VAS and anxiety levels were measured with the State Anxiety Scale. The essential oil was renewed as 1 drop every hour until the birth of the baby. When cervical dilatation was in the range of 8-10 cm, pain level was re-evaluated only with VAS. Spielberger Continuity Anxiety Scale was applied with face-to-face interview technique within 4-24 hours following the birth.

Treatment:

Other: essential oils (lemon oil)

group 3 (Control)

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

A square cotton ball impregnated with a drop of salin was placed in the participants randomized to group I (cervical dilatation ≥ 5) with the help of safety pins of pregnant women. One hour after the intervention (in the range of 5-7 cm cervical dilatation), pain levels were measured again with the VAS and anxiety levels were measured with the State Anxiety Scale. The essential oil was renewed as 1 drop every hour until the birth of the baby. When cervical dilatation was in the range of 8-10 cm, pain level was re-evaluated only with VAS. Spielberger Continuity Anxiety Scale was applied with face-to-face interview technique within 4-24 hours following the birth.

Treatment:

Other: placebo (saline solutions)