Evaluating the impact of lavender aromatherapy and music therapy on reducing stress, anxiety, and depression in female nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic
Yang HJ, Li MW, Chen TC
Complementary therapies in clinical practice · 4 citas
Cómo se estudió
- Diseño
- Ensayo controlado aleatorizado (indexado por PubMed)
- Estudiado en
- Personas
- Resultado principal
- Marcadores de salud y funcionamiento
Quién lo pagó
- Financiación
- Financiación independiente
- Gobierno
- Ministry of Health and Welfare
- Subvenciones
- Ministry of Health and Welfare (111-6)
Según 1 financiador declarado.
Publicación
- Publicado
- 2025-03-18 · Complement Ther Clin Pract · vol. 59 · pág. 101973
- Editorial
- Elsevier BV
- Citado
- 8 citas · más que el 98% de estudios similares · 8.9× el promedio de su campo
- Impacto
- Entre el 10 % más citado de su campo
- Referencias
- 35 trabajos
- Acceso
- Acceso abierto (revista híbrida) · CC-BY-NC
- Áreas de investigación
- Music Therapy and Health · Medicinal Plant Extracts Effects · COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Palabras clave
- lavender aromatherapy, music therapy, nurse stress, anxiety, depression, female nurses, COVID-19 pandemic, lavender essential oil, blood pressure, pulse rate, psychological well-being
- MeSH
- humans, lavandula, oils, volatile, plant oils, aromatherapy, music therapy, depression, stress, psychological, anxiety, adult, middle aged, nurses, taiwan, female, covid-19, sars-cov-2
3 autores
- Hao-Jan Yang🇹🇼Chung Shan Medical University Hospital; Chung Shan Medical University
- Miao Wen Li🇹🇼Ministry of Health and Welfare
- Tzu-Chun Chen🇹🇼 · autor de correspondenciaChung Shan Medical University
Resumen
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Purpose
Nurses often experience high levels of physical and psychological stress due to frequent exposure to emergency and critical situations, which can adversely affect their professional performance. This study aimed to evaluate and compare the short- and long-term impacts of combining aromatherapy with music therapy versus using aromatherapy alone on the physical and psychological well-being of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Method
This study employed a quasi-experimental design without non-intervention control group and recruited 60 nurses from a regional teaching hospital in central Taiwan between February and November 2023. Participants were randomly assigned to two groups: one group received aromatherapy, and the other group received a combination of aromatherapy and music therapy. The aromatherapy intervention involved inhaling gas infused with lavender essential oil. The intervention was conducted once a week during the lunch break for 20 min over a six-week period. Physiological and psychological indicators were compared before and after the intervention. Physiological indicators included systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), and pulse rate (PR). Psychological indicators included scores on the Nursing Stress Scale (NSS), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), which measured stress, anxiety, and depression, respectively.
Results
Overall, after each aromatherapy intervention, the physiological and psychological measures of the nurses in both groups showed significant reductions (p < 0.05) based on paired t-tests. After six measurements, a one-way repeated measures ANOVA was conducted, revealing that most physiological and psychological measures of the nurses in the aromatherapy-only group were significantly reduced (p < 0.05), although no significant differences were found for diastolic blood pressure and pulse rate. In the group receiving aromatherapy combined with music therapy, all physiological and psychological measures showed significant reductions in repeated measures tests (p < 0.05). These results suggest that aromatherapy combined with music therapy not only improved physical and psychological symptoms immediately but also had lasting effects for at least six weeks.
Conclusions
This study found that aromatherapy effectively reduced the physical and psychological stress of nurses, with even greater benefits when combined with music therapy. This approach not only provided immediate effects but also were associated with lasting benefits for an extended duration.
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