NCT04260399

Anxiety Reduction During Office Procedural Medicine Using Aromatherapy

AROMA Study: Anxiety Reduction During Office Procedural Medicine Using Aromatherapy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 88 (actual)
• Sponsor: Loyola University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This goal of this study is to assess whether lavender aromatherapy during gynecologic and urogynecologic outpatient procedures is associated with a decrease in patient anxiety levels. Based on similar interventions in other specialties of medicine, the investigators hypothesize that patients exposed to lavender aromatherapy during their procedure will have less anxiety than those who are not exposed to lavender aromatherapy.

Detailed description

Patients who present to the Loyola Urogynecology office for an outpatient procedure will be invited to participate. Patients who consent to participate will be asked to complete pre-procedure questionnaires including an assessment of their level of procedural anxiety. Subsequently, patients will be randomized to receive either lavender aromatherapy or saline aromatherapy (placebo) during their procedure. Post-procedural levels of anxiety will then be assessed. Changes between pre- and post-procedural anxiety will be compared between the treatment and placebo control groups.

Conditions

• Anxiety
• Anxiety State
• Procedural Anxiety

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Lavender Aromatherapy	Participants in the experimental group will be passively exposed to lavender essential oil
OTHER	Placebo Aromatherapy	Participants in the control group will be passively exposed to saline water aromatherapy

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-02-18
• Primary completion: 2021-05-26
• Completion: 2021-05-26
• First posted: 2020-02-07
• Last updated: 2021-05-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States