NCT06380933

The Effects of Receiving Warm Footbath With Lavender Essential Oil on Sleep and Comfort

The Effects of Receiving Warm Footbath With Lavender Essential Oil on Sleep and Comfort Among Ventilator-Dependent Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 94 (actual)
• Sponsor: Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Purposes: Describe the background information and clinical characteristics of respirator-dependent patients, verify the sleep and comfort effects of respirator-dependent patients whether or not they receive a lavender essential oil warm water foot bath, and compare changes of the sleep, comfort, heartbeat, and blood pressure in respirator-dependent patients before and after receiving a lavender essential oil warm water foot bath.

Detailed description

Methods: This study is a randomized clinical trial. It adopts a two-group crossover design trial and block randomly assigns groups after gender stratification. The experimental group first received a foot bath with lavender essential oil at 41-42C warm water for 20 minutes for 3 days, then rested for 3 days, and then received routine care for 3 days; the control group first received routine care for 3 days, then rested for 3 days, and then received lavender essential oil 41-42C warm water foot bath for 20 minutes for 3 days. The measurement tools used self-made structured questionnaires, the Richards-Campbell Sleep Questionnaire （RCSQ）, Numerical Rating of Comfort （NRC）, and heartbeat and blood pressure monitors. Data analysis included descriptive statistics, Chi-square and Fisher's exact correction tests, unpaired t tests and repeated measures ANOVA inferential statistical analysis.

Conditions

• Sleep Quality
• Comfort

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	experimental group	first received a foot bath with lavender essential oil at 41-42C warm water for 20 minutes for 3 days, then rested for 3 days, and then received routine care for 3 days

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-09-01
• Primary completion: 2022-09-01
• Completion: 2024-02-28
• First posted: 2024-04-24
• Last updated: 2024-04-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan