The effects of aromatherapy massage with mint and sweet almond oils on the sleep quality of patients with traumatic brain injury admitted to intensive care unit: a randomized clinical trial.
Mehdi Alinejad Motlagh, Batool Tirgari, Omsalimeh Roudi Rashtabadi, Mehdi Ahmadinejad, Younes Jahani
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Abstract
Background: Sleep disorder is common among hospitalized patients and also has a high prevalence after traumatic brain injury. Sleep disorder can have serious detrimental effects on disease recovery. One of the simple and non-invasive methods to improve the sleep quality of these patients is use of complementary medicine interventions and aromatherapy massage is one of these methods that may help to improve their sleep quality. Therefore, this study explored the effect of aromatherapy massage with mint and sweet almond oils on the sleep quality of patients with traumatic brain injury in intensive care units.
Methods: This study was a randomized clinical trial. In this study, 60 patients admitted to the intensive care unit were assigned to the intervention and sham therapy groups. The hands and feet of patients in the intervention group were massaged for 20 min with a combination of mint and sweet almond oils for three consecutive days. In the sham therapy group, hands and feet of patients were massaged with Vaseline. Both groups completed demographic questionnaire and Richards-Campbell Sleep Questionnaire (RCSQ) before and after the intervention. Data were analyzed using SPSS ver. 22 via central tendency and dispersion indices (frequency, percentage, average, and standard deviation), the chi-square test, independent t-test, and paired t-test with a significance level of 0.05.
Results: Aromatherapy massage significantly increased the sleep quality of traumatic brain injury patients in intensive care units, meaning that the mean score of sleep quality in the intervention group compared to the sham therapy group after the intervention showed a significant increase. (P < 0.05).
Conclusions: According to the results of this study, the use of aromatherapy with a combination of mint oil and sweet almonds increases the sleep quality of traumatized patients admitted to intensive care units. Using a combination of mint oil and sweet almond oil to increase the sleep quality of patients similar to the research community can be helpful.
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The journal Sleep and Breathing aims to reflect the state of the art in the international science and practice of sleep medicine. The journal is based on the recognition that management of sleep disorders requires a multi-disciplinary approach and diverse perspectives. The initial focus of Sleep and Breathing is on timely and original studies that collect, intervene, or otherwise inform all clinicians and scientists in medicine, dentistry and oral surgery, otolaryngology, and epidemiology on the management of the upper airway during sleep.
Furthermore, Sleep and Breathing endeavors to bring readers cutting edge information about all evolving aspects of common sleep disorders or disruptions, such as insomnia and shift work. The journal includes not only patient studies, but also studies that emphasize the principles of physiology and pathophysiology or illustrate potentially novel approaches to diagnosis and treatment. In addition, the journal features articles that describe patient-oriented and cost-benefit health outcomes research. Thus, with peer review by an international Editorial Board and prompt English-language publication, Sleep and Breathing provides rapid dissemination of clinical and clinically related scientific information. But it also does more: it is dedicated to making the most important developments in sleep disordered breathing easily accessible to clinicians who are treating sleep apnea by presenting well-chosen, well-written, and highly organized information that is useful for patient care.
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