NCT05728177

Effect of Inhalation Aromatherapy on Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms of Geriatric Patients With Parkinson's Disease

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Alexandria University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The present study aims to: Investigate the effect of inhalation aromatherapy on anxiety and depressive symptoms of geriatric patients with Parkinson's disease. Research Hypothesis: Patients with Parkinson's disease who inhale aromatherapy will exhibit lower anxiety and depressive symptoms than those who didn't inhale it

Detailed description

A sample of 60 randomly selected patients with patients Parkinson's disease was included in this study. The study subjects were divided equally into two groups; study (30 patients) and a control group (30 patients) matched as much as possible. Exclusion criteria included patients diagnosed for Parkinson's by a specialist, no use of any complementary alternative medicine methods (herbal medicines and other methods) in the past one week, no use of anxiolytics or antidepressants drugs, no history of respiratory problems as asthma, eczema and allergies to flowers and plants and no smell disorders. Patients who were not willing to participate, not able to provide written consent or not able to communicate coherently and relevantly or showed symptoms of allergy to lavender were excluded from the study.

Conditions

• Inhalation Aromatherapy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
COMBINATION_PRODUCT	Inhalation Aromatherapy	Aromatherapy is safe, well prepared mixture used in the study that prepared by professor of pharmacology, faculty of pharmacy by mixing lavender essential oil and lavender hydrolate Patients' medical charts in the outpatient clinic were reviewed to identify those who meet the inclusion criteria. Patients who meet the predetermined inclusion criteria were recruited in the study using simple randomization technique using computer-generated sequence technique to pick up these patients. After simple sampling and dividing patients into two groups of study and control. Patients from the study and control groups were interviewed individually by the researcher to apply the study tools as a pretest. Aromatherapy intervention was carried out for patients in the study group while those in the control group were left without any intervention to undergo the usual outpatient routine care.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-08-10
• Primary completion: 2022-12-10
• Completion: 2023-01-05
• First posted: 2023-02-15
• Last updated: 2023-02-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt