Effectiveness of Aromatherapy Yoga in Stress Reduction and Sleep Quality Improvement Among Female College Students: A Quasi-Experimental Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 89
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Perceived Stress Scale 14 (PSS-14)
研究概览
简要总结
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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Health Services Research
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 21 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •We included female college students aged > 18 years, who were able to understand the questionnaire.
排除标准
- •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.
研究组 & 干预措施
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.
干预措施: Aromatherapy yoga (Behavioral)
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.
干预措施: Yoga (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Perceived Stress Scale 14 (PSS-14)
时间窗: 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)
时间窗: 10-15 minutes
The PSQI developed by Buysse et al. \[45\], which evaluates sleep quality of the participants in the past month.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Yang Shang-Yu
Assistant professor
National Cheng Kung University