NCT04648215

Lavender Aromatherapy for Sleep in Hospitalized Adult Patients

The Effect of Lavender Aromatherapy on Sleep in Hospitalized Adult Patients

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 108 (actual)
• Sponsor: Northwell Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This feasibility study's aim is to determine the effectiveness of lavender oil aromatherapy on quality and duration of sleep in hospitalized adult patients

Detailed description

Hospitalized patients on a medical unit will be randomly assigned to one of three groups of 36 patients: Intervention (Lavender oil), Placebo Intervention (Grapeseed Oil), or Control (Standard of Care). Following a determination of meeting inclusion criteria on admission and completing informed consent, subjects will be randomized to one of three groups on admission. This is a 4 day study with pre- intervention (baseline) sleep data on quality and duration of sleep using the Verrans \& Halpern- Snyder Sleep Scale collected on Day 2, following admission day. For the intervention, indirect aromatherapy, a 2x2 gauze with 2 drops of either oil (lavender or grapeseed is pinned it to the subjects' nightgown (right scapula area) for two sequential nights (Time 1 and Time 2) (Day 2 and 3) and removed in the morning after 10 hours . Sleep Quality and Duration are then measured in the morning, Time 1 and Time 2, (Day 3 and Day 4) by the Verran \& Snyder-Halpern Sleep Scale analogue. The control group receives standard of care in the evenings and the same data as the intervention groups are collected for sleep quality and duration, pre-intervention and Time 1 and Time 2 .. The differences in the scores for sleep quality and duration will be compared from pre-intervention to Time 1 and Time 2 for each group .

Conditions

• Sleep
• Hospitalization

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	lavender oil	aromatherapy--two drops applied to a 2x2 gauze and pinned to subject's gown
OTHER	Grapeseed Oil	aromatherapy--two drops applied to a 2 X 2 gauze and pinned to subject's gown

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-02-22
• Primary completion: 2022-12-31
• Completion: 2022-12-31
• First posted: 2020-12-01
• Last updated: 2023-05-06

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States