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The Effect of Aromatherapy Applied to Intensive Care Nurses on Tension-Type Headache
NCT06779786
Tension-type headache (TTH) is a common symptom in intensive care nurses. The nurses' quality of life, ve social ve business life are negatively affected by the ache. This study was conducted in two stages as randomized controlled study design ve a qualitative study, with the purpose of determining the impacts of medicinal lavender or citriodora oil, applied by massage for four weeks, on headache severity ve the life quality of critical care nurses with TTH. Nurses working in the intensive care units of the University of Health Sciences Kayseri City Hospital ve meeting the inclusion criteria were involved in the research. 60 individuals participated in total in the study with simple randomization as, 20 individual's İntervention- 1, 20 individual's İntervention- 2, ve 20 individual's placebo control. Ethics committee approval, informed consent form ve institutional permission were granted for the study. Through four weeks, nurses in Intervention-1 ve Intervention- 2 groups; 3% medicinal lavender/ eucalyptus citriodora oil, in accordance with the oil application protocol, in the first week, every day in the morning ve evening, ve in the second, third ve fourth weeks only in the morning; in the placebo control group, through four weeks; In the first week, every day in the morning ve evening, ve in the second, third ve fourth weeks, only in the mornings, massage with sesame oil was applied. The data of the research, Patient Introduction Form, Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), Short Form SF 36 Quality of Life Scale (KF-36), Application Tracing Chart Researcher ve Nurse Form, were gathered by using oil application protocol. In the evaluation of quantitative data, one-way analysis of variance, multiple comparison test, chi-square test, pearson correlation analysis ve p\<0.05 were accepted for significance. Descriptive ve content analysis methods were used in the evaluation of qualitative data. It was shown that the medical lavender / eucalyptus citriodora oil massage applied on the nurses in the İntervention groups, reduced the TTH significantly ve provided less use of painkillers ve affected the quality-of-life sub-dimensions more positively when compared to the nurses in the placebo control group. The qualitative findings of the study support the quantitative findings. According to these results, in nurses who are working in intensive care units; the use of 3% medicinal lavender oil or 3% eucalyptus citriodora oil can be recommended in the treatment of the TTH symptom
Headache, Tension
Bartın Unıversity60 participantsStarted Sep 2020 Bartın, Turkey (Türkiye) • Kayseri, Turkey (Türkiye)
