NCT04666363

Inhaled Lavender Applied at Hemodialysis Patients and Effect on Pain, Comfort, and Anxiety

Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Long-term Inhaled Lavender Applied to Hemodialysis Patients on Invasive Pain Experienced During Cannulation, Patient Comfort, and Anxiety

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 36 (actual)
• Sponsor: Istanbul Demiroglu Bilim University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The procedure of puncturing during needle insertion and moving needles within the tissues, the insertion angle, diameter of needles, and insertion techniques all lead the patient to experience pain. However, patients tolerate needle insertion more easily when the pain is managed well. Therefore, pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods are needed in pain control in order to improve comfort when undergoing hemodialysis (HD), and to facilitate patient's compliance to treatment over a longer period. Being one of the non-pharmacological practices, aromatherapy is a part of phototherapy, which means "therapy with plants" and also aims to manage symptoms such as pain as well as the treatment itself.

Detailed description

Experience of the arteriovenous fistula puncture-related pain can have unpleasant effects on the patients, it causes that hemodialysis patients experience more disability, depression, irritability, and insomnia than other patients in adapting to stress. Experiencing continued pain can also affect the level of hemodialysis acceptance in patients and ultimately decrease quality of life. Therefore, pain control is an important priority in these patients. In this regard, in various studies, different pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches have been used to alleviate the pain.

Conditions

• Hemodialysis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Lavender oil	the essence was diluted 1:10 with sweet almond oil. A cotton ball soaked in 3 drops of diluted lavender essence was kept at a 10 cm distance from the patients' nose and they were asked to breathe slowly for 5 min.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-02-15
• Primary completion: 2021-04-30
• Completion: 2021-05-30
• First posted: 2020-12-14
• Last updated: 2021-08-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)