نویسندگان
SEYED ESMAIL HASSANPOUR, RAHIM BEGLOO ELAHEH ROUHI, Hanieh Jafarian, Mansour Aliyari, MOGHADAM ALI MOHAMMAD SHARIATI, Hamid Haghani, OTAGHVAR HAMIDREZA ALIZADEH
تاریخ انتشار
2017/1/1
جلد
3
نسخه
3
صفحات
223-230
ناشر
Journal of Client-Centered Nursing Care
توضیح
Background
Preoperational ANXIETY is a challenging issue in preoperative care of patients. However, lavender aromatherapy can be useful as a nursing intervention to reduce some symptoms of the ANXIETY. This study aimed to determine the effect of aromatherapy on the ANXIETY of patients undergoing surgical reconstruction of the upper limb.
Methods
In this non-randomized clinical trial, a total of 100 candidates of upper limb reconstruction operation were investigated in 15 Khordad Hospital, Tehran, Iran in 2017. They were selected by convenience sampling method and assigned into two groups of 50 patients; intervention and control. The lavender aromatherapy was administered for 20 minutes for the intervention group, and for the control or placebo group, distilled water was used instead of lavender. Spielberger questionnaire was completed by the participants before the intervention and 20 minutes after the intervention. The Chi-square test, paired t test and Independent t test were used for data analysis using SPSS V. 16.