NCT05000424

Clary Sage Essential Oil & Pregnancy

Clary Sage Essential Oil Inhalation and Third Trimester Quality of Life: A Randomized, Double Blind, Controlled Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Nutraceuticals Research Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 20 Years – 39 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the potential for clary sage essential oil to support overall health, wellbeing, and quality of life during the third trimester of pregnancy among otherwise healthy adult women.

Detailed description

Women will be informed of the opportunity to participate through their care providers, childbirth educators, or doulas. If they meet inclusion criteria, they will be given a brochure describing the risks and benefits of the study and the informed consent paperwork. If they provide consent, they will be randomized to one of two groups: active essential oil and inert placebo. Both groups will receive a 4-ounce bottle of oil to apply daily during the third trimester of pregnancy. Those in the placebo group will be given an inert plant oil. Those in the intervention group will be given the same oil with the addition of clary sage essential oil.

Conditions

• Quality of Life
• Pregnancy Related

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Clary Sage Massage Oil	This massage oil contains clary sage oil. Five drops will be used daily.
OTHER	Inert Massage Oil	This massage oil consists entirely of plant based oils. Five drops will be used daily.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-11-01
• Primary completion: 2022-12-31
• Completion: 2023-02-28
• First posted: 2021-08-11
• Last updated: 2022-05-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States