NCT03830554

Effect of Atlas Cedarwood Essential Oil Aromatherapy on Sleep Quality Among Patients With Coronary Heart Disease

Effect of Atlas Cedarwood Essential Oil Aromatherapy on Sleep Quality Among Patients With Coronary Heart Disease: a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 96 (actual)
• Sponsor: Rawan Alghzawi · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 64 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Sleep-wake disturbances were found to be a common problem among patients with CHD either earlier during hospitalization or/ and after discharge Although there is an evidence that sleep-wake disturbanes occur in high rate among patients with CHD little was found about assessment and management of this problem. This randomized controlled study will assess sleep quality of stable CHD patients who were admitted for undergoing coronary angiography electively. Then it will test the hypothesis that atlas cedar wood essential oil aromatherapy have a positive effect on sleep quality of CHD patients.

Detailed description

The primary aim is testing the effect of Atlas cedar wood essential oil aromatherapy on sleep quality of patients after CHD. The secondary aim is estimating the prevalence of sleep-wake disturbances (difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, inadequate sleep duration, dissatisfaction with a sleep and excessive daytime sleepiness) among recruited CHD patients. \- data were collected by two phase: * phase one: sleep quality of recruited CHD patients, who were admitted for undergoing coronary angiography electively, were assessed using Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). CHD participants who were reported poor sleep quality (=\>5) in PSQI score will randomly allocated by toss either to intervention or control group. * Phase two: 1. Intervention group received an atlas cedar wood aromatherapy for five consecutive nights. 2. Control group received no intervention. 3. Sleep quality of both group participants re-assessed at second day and six day of recruitment, respectively, using PSQI.

Conditions

• Sleep Quality
• Coronary Heart Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Organic Atlas cedar wood essential oil (Cedrus Atantica)	At first day of admission, Intervention group received an intervention kit consist of 5 small glass essential oil bottles. Each essential oil bottle contains a small cotton ball saturated with two drops of Organic Atlas cedar wood essential oil (Cedrus Atantica). Participants were asked to open the bottle, inhale the smell directly and put it opened at 20 cm beside bed during night.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-07-30
• Primary completion: 2018-11-05
• Completion: 2018-11-05
• First posted: 2019-02-05
• Last updated: 2019-03-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Jordan