NCT05573256

Effects of Sleep Hygiene Education and Lavender Oil Inhalation on Sleep Quality, Fatigue, Quality of Life

Effects of Sleep Hygiene Education and Lavender Oil Inhalation on Sleep Quality, Fatigue, and Health-related Quality of Life in Adults With a Stoma: A Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: Marmara University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Self-care non-pharmacological methods can help reduce the negative health effects of sleep problems or insomnia. This trial aims to investigate the effects of sleep hygiene education and lavender oil inhalation alone and in combination on sleep quality, fatigue, and health-related quality of life in adults with a stoma.

Detailed description

This study has been planned as a randomized controlled clinical trial and will use a 2x2 factor design in which an equal number of participants meeting the inclusion criteria will be randomly allocated to one of four groups. The study population will comprise 120 adult patients who have undergone ostomy surgery in a city hospital in Turkey. Lavender oil inhalation together with sleep hygiene education will be applied in the first group (n=30), only sleep hygiene education in the second group (n=30), only lavender oil inhalation in the third group (n=30), and no intervention in the fourth group (n=30). The sleep quality of the groups will be evaluated using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, their fatigue levels with the Chalder Fatigue Scale, and their quality of life with the Stoma Quality of Life Scale.

Conditions

• Ostomy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Lavender oil inhalation	Lavender oil inhalation;During the trial, the participants will be asked to practice lavender oil inhalation as follows: Every night before going to bed (21:00-24:00), the participants will drop two drops of 2% lavender essential oil on a 2x2 cm cotton gauze pad in a bowl, place it at a distance of 15-20 cm from their pillows, and breath normally for 20 minutes. The participants will be instructed to repeat this process by dripping lavender oil onto a new gauze pad every night for four weeks.
BEHAVIORAL	Sleep hygiene education	Sleep hygiene education;The participants assigned to Groups 1 and 2 will receive sleep hygiene education using the sleep hygiene education brochure, which has been prepared by the researchers based on the literature concerning the improvement of general sleep quality in individuals with a stoma.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-06-14
• Primary completion: 2022-07-14
• Completion: 2022-07-15
• First posted: 2022-10-10
• Last updated: 2022-10-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)