The Effect of Aromatherapy on Anxiety in Patients

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Anxiety; Pain
• Interventions: Drug: Lavender Oil

• Registration Number: NCT05500664
• Lead Sponsor: Assiut University

Brief Summary

Preoperative anxiety is considered a potential and preventable risk factor for postoperative complications.

Detailed Description

Alot of patients face fear from intervention such as radiofrequency. The group of patients with chronic knee osteoarthritis already and mostly have some sore of psychological upset, radiofrequency itself , even in the presence of good periinterventional local anesthetic infiltration, the patients suffer pain and stress. It is well evidenced that aromatherapy specially with Lavender oil offers some sort of anxiety alleviation, pain alleviation and protection against postoperative nausea and vomiting

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2022-01-02
• Study Start: 2022-01-20
• Primary Completion: 2022-05-30
• Study Completion: 2022-06-30
• Status Verified: 2022-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-08-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-08-11
• Study First Posted: 2022-08-15
• Last Update Posted: 2022-08-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

• adult patients with knee osteoarthritis
• scheduled for genicular nerve radiofrequency

Exclusion Criteria

• Allergy to lavender
• psychological disorders
• upper respiratory tract illness

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Lavender	Lavender Oil	three drops of the designated lavender will be placed on a 2-inch by 2-inch impermeable, backed gauze pad and patient was asked to inhale deeply for 5 minutes

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
change of Speilberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory	preintervention, 15 minutes postintervention	change of Speilberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory , There are 20 questions (I feel calm, secure, tense, strained, at ease, upset, am presently worrying over possible misfortunes, satisfied, frightened, uncomfortable, self-confident, nervous, jittery, indecisive, relaxed, content, worried, confused, steady and pleasant) where people rate their anxiety from one (not at all) to four (very much so), and scores range from 20 to 80. low anxiety is 20 to 37, moderate anxiety is 38 to 44, and high anxiety is 45 to 80.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
change of Pain visual analog scale	Preintervention, 15 minutes postintervention	change of Pain visual analog scale, Scale from 0 ( no pain ) up to 10 (worst experienced pain)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Emad Zarief Kamel Said; 🇪🇬 Assiut, Egypt