The Effect of Aromatherapy Massage on Pain, Anxiety and Comfort
- Conditions
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2Stroke, IschemicPulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveRespiratory InsufficiencyHigh Blood Pressure
- Interventions
- Other: Effect of aromatherapy massage on vital signs, pain, anxiety and comfort level
- Registration Number
- NCT06295874
- Lead Sponsor
- Nilgün Erdoğan
- Brief Summary
Patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) experience physical and psychological discomfort, including pain. Anxiety is a condition frequently encountered in the ICU. The hospital environment, especially the ICU, is reported as a significant cause of anxiety for patients. Comfort is a holistic, subjective and multidimensional concept that is affected by physical, environmental, social and psycho-spiritual contexts and changes over time and space. Comfort in intensive care is often associated with pain relief and end-of-life care. Assessment tools have been developed to measure patient comfort in the ICU, including levels of pain, delirium, and sedation. This work; Patients who are monitored in intensive care under high-flow and oxygen are treated with a mixture of lavender, thyme and eucalyptus oil (20 ml; lavender oil 5 drops, thyme oil 4 drops, eucalyptus oil 3 drops and 20 ml almond oil) twice a day for three days. This study was conducted to determine the effect of aromatherapy massage applied for a total of 30 minutes on some physiological parameters, pain, anxiety and intensive care comfort of the patients.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 61
- 18 years of age and over,
- Conscious patients,
- Staying in intensive care for 24 hours or more,
- Those with stable hemodynamic status,
- Receiving O2 therapy,
- Intubated patients, patients who have passed 24 hours after being extubated,
- Those whose saturation level is 85 and above
- Patients with peripheral neuropathy or quadriplegia,
- Patients with open wounds on their body,
- Patients receiving analgesia and sedation infusion,
- Patients who are sedated,
- Patients in delirium,
- Patients with an allergy detected before starting the application,
- Patients with a GKS (Glasgow Coma Scale) score of 3 and below
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Placebo Control Group Effect of aromatherapy massage on vital signs, pain, anxiety and comfort level After obtaining written and verbal approval from the families of the patients included in the placebo control group by signing the Informed Volunteer Consent Form, the patients were filled out the Patient Introduction Form, Patient Monitoring Form and Medication Monitoring Form by the nurses. According to the oil application protocol, the massage with almond oil was performed by the researcher in 6 consecutive steps by stroking the patient's back and chest, effleurage, re-effleurage, deep stroking of the back and stroking the back surface. Intervention Group Effect of aromatherapy massage on vital signs, pain, anxiety and comfort level After obtaining written and verbal permission from the families of the patients in the intervention group by signing the Informed Volunteer Consent Form, the patients were filled out the Patient Introduction Form, Patient Monitoring Form and Medication Monitoring Form by the nurses. The massage process, which was performed according to the application protocol of the aroma oil prepared for the patients (5 drops of lavender oil, 4 drops of thyme oil, 3 drops of eucalyptus oil and 20 ml of almond oil in 20 ml), was performed by the researcher by stroking the patient's back and chest, effleurage, re-effleurage, back massage. Deep caressing and stroking on the dorsal surface were performed in 6 consecutive steps.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Patient Introduction Form 2 years The "Patient Introduction Form" prepared by the researcher based on the literature in order to obtain information about the characteristics of the patients who will form the sample includes questions such as the medical diagnosis of the patients, age, gender, chronic diseases, length of stay in intensive care, use of analgesics and sedative drugs.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Patient Follow-up Form 2 years The patient follow-up form was created by the researcher, and the follow-up results of physiological parameters throughout the study will be included in the form. Vital signs and oxygen saturation results of the patients before and after the application will be recorded on the patient follow-up form by the nurses who collect the data of the study.
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Ömer Halisdemir University Training and Research Hospital
🇹🇷Nigde, Turkey