NCT02189980

Aromatherapy Using a Nasal Clip After Surgery

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 300 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Balanced Health plus · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this follow up study is to determine the duration of action regarding aromatherapy to treat nausea occurring postoperatively.

Detailed description

The primary hypothesis of the study is that post-operative patients who meet eligibility criteria and report nausea and receive a blend of 45% ginger, 25% peppermint, 5% spearmint, and 25% cardamom essential oils while using a nasal clip to facilitate inhalation will have more relief from nausea than those who receive normal saline inhalation using the same delivery system. The secondary purposes of the study is to determine the duration of effectiveness of the essential oil blend as compared to the saline in the relief of post-operative nausea and to investigate the degree of comfort participants report using the nasal clip delivery system for aromatherapy.

Conditions

• Post-operative Nausea

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Aromatherapy blend	A blend of 45% ginger, 25% peppermint, 5% spearmint, and 25% cardamom essential oils
OTHER	Duration of effectiveness of the essential oil blend	Evidence of effectiveness of tested aromatherapy blend in reducing symptoms of post-operative nausea as measured by patient self-report using Likert-type scale measure immediately to one-day post-operative.
OTHER	Participant comfort using the nasal clip delivery system	Comfort of participants using nasal clip delivery system for aromatherapy will be measured by self-report using Likert-type scale immediately to one-day post-operative.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-06-01
• Primary completion: 2016-08-01
• Completion: 2016-08-01
• First posted: 2014-07-15
• Last updated: 2016-01-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States