Effectiveness of Aromatherapy Yoga

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Female College Students
• Interventions: Behavioral: Yoga; Behavioral: Aromatherapy yoga

• Registration Number: NCT05459025
• Lead Sponsor: Yang Shang-Yu

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2021-03-01
• Primary Completion: 2021-06-01
• Study Completion: 2021-08-01
• Status Verified: 2022-07
• Study First Submitted: 2022-07-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-07-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-07-12
• Study First Posted: 2022-07-14
• Last Update Posted: 2022-07-14

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 89

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.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Yoga	Yoga	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.
Aromatherapy yoga	Aromatherapy yoga	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.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Perceived Stress Scale 14 (PSS-14)	10-15 minutes	PSS-14 is the scale that is most widely used for measuring the degree to which situations in one's life are appraised as being stressful.
Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)	10-15 minutes	The PSQI developed by Buysse et al. \[45\], which evaluates sleep quality of the participants in the past month.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Asia Univeraity; 🇨🇳 Taichung, WuFeng, Taiwan